Posted by Ron dW on June 18, 2000 at 18:33:18:

In Reply to: KM in education posted by Dr Edward Sallis on June 04, 2000 at 12:21:59:

Hello Mr. Sallis,

Internet has brought vast new possibilities in schooling, not just knowledge accessibility but also distance learning, as if computer based training wasn't enough. It seems to me now students must feel stimulated more than ever to create their own curriculum and learn what they want to learn.

At school and in college my problem was my inability to learn things that were taught. I always suspected some unrevealed interest or need that the teacher had to confront us with. He needed students to keep his job, he needed his favorites to feel not alone out there, he needed the most beautiful girls to appreciate him for his libido etc. Of course I was just jealous and frustrated by not having learned to learn.

Yet I wanted to learn and devised all kinds of systems to a) hold on to what I found out and b) keep track of what they wanted me to know. The problem was I could not bring the two together or when I did I had not reproduced adequately so it was always wrong one way or another. Only in recent years I seem to understand how I can learn and I even get bored sometimes as an indication of my success!

Anyway, this is what I believe km can do for higher education: help students differentiate their own curriculum and service them the best knowledge available whenever they want it, including means to hold on to the structures they create in bringing all the knowledge elements together in their own way. If only I could be young now and do it all over again!

Regards,
Ron dW

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