You raise a valuable point with respect to the experience of students in this course. We’ve heard a lot of grieving for the structure and confines of WebCT in the initial weeks of each offering since we migrated away from Blackboard. After a while, students have then commented on the liberating nature of the experience.

In our view as instructors, we have to keep the course content and delivery style fluid to suit the nature of an exploration of “ventures in learning technology.”

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It’s rather interesting to read your post regarding the course we are currently enrolled in. It really gives a different perspective of how I see my learning. This is my 7th MET course and Webct was the routine for most of the courses I have taken. Going from that to this course was at first very intimidating because I did not realize the intent on making it an “open” method of presenting and teaching. Rather than seeing the “openness”, I saw the chaos. With this realization, I appreciate the layout and form of the course. I am starting to see how it is different and appreciating it because it is different and seeing how different elements start to play out because it is in this form.

The question of “Are you open enough?” is a good one. I don’t think I was open enough until I realized the rationale in your post. Now, I am embracing the course in a different way and from a different perspective. I am glad I clicked away.

Iris