For hundreds of years, the paradigm of learning was the classroom-training model. In a time when formal learning was scarce, resources were concentrated around, and centered on, the availability of the educator, rather than the learner. Because this has served as the model that typified for- mal learning at all levels for generations, including our own, it is hardly surprising that this paradigm is well entrenched. The first applications of eLearning were therefore aligned with the old classroom model and its associated characteristics. While this is understandable, this classroom model, just as the first TV shows and plastics, does not yet leverage the true potential of the new paradigm: in this case the Internet as a learning medium.
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