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An E-Portfolio Scheme of Flexible Online Learning
Kam Hou Vat
2009
Source PublicationEncyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition
Author of SourcePatricia L. Rogers, Gary A. Berg, Judith V. Boettcher, Caroline Howard, Lorraine Justice, and Karen D. Schenk
PublisherInformation Science Reference; 2 edition
Abstract

The potentialities of the information (or Internet) age have somehow exceeded many of our current calculations in education (Brown, 2000; Cornford & Pollock, 2003; Duke, 2002). Imagine a student attending a class waiting to be taught mostly in lectures or direct training from the instructor. The same student as a learner has at hand many an on-demand (or just-in-time) ubiquitous high-quality learning environments with learner-friendly support, such as the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia. org). Today’s numerous virtual communities, including the WELL project (http://www.well.com) or the Blacksburg community networks (http://www.bev.net), have demonstrated to our inquiring students the possibility of fostering their own learning initiatives, with the comfort of an electronic personalized space in the form of customizable information system (IS) support (Vat, 2005) guarded by privately assigned identifier and password, to experience and make sense of their worlds of learning. The message to the education community is clear: we need to inject more flexibility (Khan, 2007a) in support of learning; namely, learners now must be empowered with more say in what they learn, when they learn, and where and how they learn.

DOI10.4018/978-1-60566-198-8.ch132
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Language英語English
ISBN9781605661988
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Document TypeBook chapter
VersionSecond Edition
CollectionDEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
AffiliationUniversity of Macau, Macau
First Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
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Kam Hou Vat. An E-Portfolio Scheme of Flexible Online Learning[M]. Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition, Second Edition:Information Science Reference; 2 edition, 2009.
APA Kam Hou Vat.(2009). An E-Portfolio Scheme of Flexible Online Learning. Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition.
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