Editorial ~ Ideas Whose Time has Come Back

dc.creator	Jonathan Baggaley
dc.date	2008-06-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:08:55Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:08:55Z
dc.identifier	1492-3831
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/ed4687725ddb42389c71ebe17f73b865
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/12371
dc.description	This issue of IRRODL contains papers from Brazil, Greece, Sri Lanka, Canada and the US, and reviews of distance education developments in Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. A new world of distance education (DE) is coming together in the developing world, as old media such as radio and the telephone merge with each other and the Internet to form wholly original interactive partnerships. So I now offer you a new piece of jargon, coined to pay respect to the creative return to older DE media: ‘paradigm rollback’ – you heard it here first! This odious but quite typical piece of verbiage signifies “a shift back to an idea whose time has come,” as in the case of DE technologies supplanted for a while by the promise that the Internet would do the job better. I just looked the term up on Google, and find only one reference to it so far – in the conference presentation where I coined the term a week ago! Let’s see how many references there are to ‘paradigm rollback’ a few months from now among those for whom jargon is all . . .
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Athabasca University
dc.relation	http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/565/1040
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 9, Iss 2 (2008)
dc.subject	distance education
dc.subject	open learning
dc.subject	open education
dc.subject	higher education
dc.subject	e-learning
dc.subject	online learning
dc.subject	m-learning
dc.subject	mobile learning
dc.subject	distance learning
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Editorial ~ Ideas Whose Time has Come Back
dc.type	article