E-Learning Standards:Pedagogical Neutrality and Engagement
Presentation for the “Technology, Instruction, Cognition & Learning” SIG at the American Educational Research Association. Here’s the PowerPoint, a version of the paper, and here’s the abstract:
This paper challenges the familiar claim that e-learning standards and systems can be pedagogically neutral. In the place of “neutral” standards, this paper advocates the development of pedagogically “engaged” or “committed” conceptions of content and systems that serve some educational purposes, situations and methods, but not others. As such, it does not summarize findings that would represent an answer to a research question or problem. Instead, it draws on the author’s four years’ experience in e-learning standardization, and it seeks to expand the range of questions and issues associated with the e-learning standardization process.
