Posted by Richard at December 8th, 2007

Given my interest in online learning, it’s surprising that it took me a year to get around to engaging an article I’d bookmarked almost a year ago: Learners’ Perspectives on What is Missing from Online Learning.

The co-authors, from major Canadian research universities, noted several areas where learners (apparently mostly adult learners) found their online learning environments wanting for a vairety of reasons:

  • Robustness of dialog
  • Spontenaeity and improvisation
  • Human interaction (seeing others and being seen by them)
  • Getting to know classmates as people outside of class
  • learning to be a learner

The question, of course, is whether a virtual world or game environment classroom would aid and abet the learners or enhance the learners problems.

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