OMDE601 Discussion thread

13.16 :-? Thomas to Thomas' intro
13.16.1 :-) Anthony


13.16.2 :-? Thomas

Dear Anthony,

I accept that much can be improved by improving technology. I even heard our technicians saying that it is even easierfor notes based learning platforms to have full threading than to limit it. I do not know if it is true. In lotus learning space'which we use here I asked to design a threading system which allows to retrieve at a mouse click the very threadleading to the last argument. This would allow to overcome the Markov deficit.

However, there is the problem of skewed attention. The message you have opened is there: quite visible. What have said before is somewhat shrewd in memory. This is partly a problem of time. Have you ever played chess at a distance? You have to reconfigure the game each time anew. Here you have to reconfigure the argument and rekindle themotivation at the same time.

Then there is the question with cross references. How can I bind arguments together. I can only link to a thread. Isn'tthis the technological tail wagging the educational dog (as Hilary Perraton, the visiting expert in OMDE625 explainedwhen I introduced him to the system).

I like 'rigid flexibility' a US military koan? (You know koans from Zen Buddhism: paradoxes given to novices tofrustrate their trust in arrogant rationality.)Additional observation: I immediately jumped on continuing this micro-conversations since I lost context. May be thishas been said at several corners of this conference! But what an effort to find out! Utterly inefficient.Kind regardsThomas