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: : Maria: : : I agree with you about incremental progress. I do think that we need to be careful. For example, by adding technology such as tractors or biotech to farming has made farming efficient. However, it hasn't change farming. Many seem to think corallaries or opinions from experience are generalizable to the world. However, I don't think the theory bases to learning have changed that much. I also think that technology hasn't really changed education as much as it has made it more efficient and accessible. The problem I see is that the research being done currently is looking at practice and trying to call it theory. One of the things that I read in this discussion earlier is that the new people don't necessarily need a dictionary. I also agree with that, but believe that they need a base of knowledge to work from. Prof Paprock : I don't disagree. The instant DE institutions or rather the new e-learning businesses that have sprung up because of the new market opportunities generated by the emergent technologies, would seem to particularly need a huge dose of the heritage of educational theoretical base and indeed, the mission of ODL. But there is no hard evidence by way of research that shows up that they are not doing things right, is there? Cheers. Maria

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