Technologies of Learning
A guide to the site's writing on e-learning, instructional media, and educational form.
The essays collected here ask a harder question than which platform works best. Technologies of Learning, a 2024 Primer, Elearning Demystified, and The Format of the Century all treat educational tools as media forms with assumptions built into them. Slides, online courses, and AI explainers are never just containers; each encodes a theory of what learning is supposed to be.
Read next to Why E-Learning Fails the 70-20-10 Test, the argument becomes sharper. The problem is not technology itself but the way educational systems overinvest in delivery and underinvest in participation, challenge, and feedback.
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- Technologies of Learning, a 2024 Primer
Rapidly, we approach the final phase of the extension of man—the technological simulation of consciousness, when the creative process of knowing will be collectively and corporately extended to the whole of human society, much as we have already extended our senses and nerves by the various media. - Marshal McLuhan
- Elearning Demystified
What is elearning? Let's start from the beginning...
- The Format of the Century
The slideshow, a cornerstone of contemporary teaching and presentations, indeed stands as the format of choice across countless domains in this century. However, the journey to its current status is rooted in a rich history of technological innovation and educational evolution.
- Why E-Learning Fails the 70-20-10 Test
E-learning has built a $300B industry around the least effective slice of the learning model — formal instruction — while neglecting the experiential and social work that actually drives development.
