Productivist Education vs. Contextual Learning: Evaluation and the Place of Flexibility in Discourses of Online Education Systems

dc.creator	Bruce Allen KNIGHT
dc.creator	Daniel TEGHE
dc.date	2004-07-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:18:15Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:18:15Z
dc.identifier	1302-6488
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/9d1009a66b04414bb3416130c29a6406
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/26777
dc.description	Productivist Education vs. Contextual Learning: Evaluation and the Place of Flexibility in Discourses of Online Education Systems Daniel TEGHE Bruce Allen KNIGHT Central Queensland University Rockhampton-AUSTRALIA ABSTRACT This paper provides a largely conceptual discussion which focuses on how productivist education systems can be perpetuated in approaches to online education. We hold that, since notions of flexibility can shape educational contexts, evaluators of online courses would benefit from the knowledge that flexibility is a concept that bears a particular meaning in productivist perspectives. The paper highlights the difference between using new technologies to continue to educate and using those technologies to address the needs that account for learners contexts. We argue that education (in its productivist tradition) refers to teaching according to pre-determined notions and rules of what learners should do in order to become knowledgeable about (and often have the right attitude towards) something. Relevant learning, on the other hand, refers to teaching through interactive processes that are sufficiently flexible to account for the myriad of individual learning approaches/styles, capacities to adapt to or to mould a learning environment and the varying degrees of technological proficiency relevant to accessing online courses.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey
dc.relation	http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/tojde15/pdf/knight.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1302-6488
dc.source	The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, Vol 5, Iss 3, Pp 26-32 (2004)
dc.subject	productivism
dc.subject	flexibility
dc.subject	evaluation
dc.subject	online learning context
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
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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
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dc.title	Productivist Education vs. Contextual Learning: Evaluation and the Place of Flexibility in Discourses of Online Education Systems
dc.type	article