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E-learning 2.0 and Internet Transparency

August 4, 2007 |  Tagged , , |

e-learning-20.jpgLast month, Jesica Bassani and I wrote a short article for an important local newspaper to present two new courses that will be launched at our workplace this semester: a blended TOEFL iBT course and an online Business English course. We presented them as E-learning 2.0 since we are designing them on Moodle with a flexible, interactive approach trying to bring the full potential of the Web 2.0 to the learning experience.

To our surprise, the article was “improperly” edited and our names, simply, removed. Luckily, today I was able to find  the full version of our article, which was published in a smaller newspaper that is distributed in neighboring cities.

The whole episode made me reflect on the concept of Internet transparency I’ve recently read about. Journalist Mark Tapscott has said that the Internet revolution is forcing transparency, stressing the importance of bloggers and their capacity to enhance transparency and freedom of expression.(Noticias sobre Internet)

Here are the two articles (in Spanish). Can you spot the differences?

smaller newspaper  second article (no permalink - cache version)

important local newspaper

TGIT ( Thank God for Internet Transparency) ;)


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  1.    CarlaArena on August 6, 2007 2:04 pm

    Dear Carla,

    Just amazing to see how the important local newspaper did a terrible job cutting and pasting your text that was well-sequenced and gave the message of the need for e-learning within a flexible framework.

    Let me know how the courses go. Could you email me info about the bureacratic procedures? Like, how’s the enrollment going to be? How are you advertising these new courses? When will the students get their MOODLE key for the course? Are you going to be teaching them? How often will the TOEFL Ibt group meet? What will they do online and what will be explored f2f? Is ARICANA charging the same fee for these online courses? How is it paying the teachers?

    I’d love to know more about it as we have a very similar setting and Erika and I are planning a pilot-online course for the second semester.

    Waiting for news.
    Carla

  2.    Carla on August 6, 2007 11:36 pm

    Hi, Carla!

    Thanks for dropping by!

    It seems our paths meet once again. I’ll send you an e-mail soon.

    Big hugs

  3.    spanish lessons on February 10, 2008 11:50 am

    I still can’t believe the local newspaper did that.

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