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The theme of this talk was that the new barrier
for educators to overcome is the lack of time learners have for
study. Robin Mason argued that we should not regard short courses
- or even learning objects - as a third rate form of learning.
Rather, we must see that time, and specifically the lack of it,
is a challenge just as distance, and specifically the surfeit
of it, was for us when distance teaching universities were created.
As a webcast, this talk advantages the distant
audience over the face-to-face audience: there was a comment area
during the live broadcast for remote listeners to participate,
whereas the audience in the Berrill Lecture Theatre had no opportunity
for interaction.
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