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E-Learn Me This

ACM News Service: New E-Learning Tools.  I'm half-way through an M.Sc in IT program that is delivered by distance learning.  Everything is done on-line via computer-mediated communication (CMC).  And I find it very difficult to relate this blurb to anything I recognize as E-Learning.  It seems to be about applying learning algorithms to Interactive Tutoring Systems (ITS), and the learning algorithms are about machine learning.  I can't tell whether the machine is learning, or the machine is supporting a human learning something, or if these are thought to be the same thing.

Chandra Devi's NSTRP e-media report has more words, but my parser hasn't learned to gain more from it than in the original blurb, but for the final statement: "Overall, the [Canadian research Learning Objects Repositories Network (Lornet)] mandate is to make progress on the fundamental research required to support distance education."

I might be happier if I understood what the linkage between "machine learning" and "distance education" is meant to be.  On the other hand, maybe not.
posted by orcmid at 5/29/2004 09:13:38 AM