http://www.wordsend.org/2005/01/21/making-waves/ searching for the ineffable Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:24:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.wordsend.org/2005/01/21/making-waves/comment-page-1/#comment-405 drewski Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:50:34 +0000 /?p=440#comment-405 Simmons College mandates instructor use of WebCT. It's forcing some reluctant instructors to take a feeble step or two onto the path (with the e'er-receding horizon) toward technological competence, but basically it's wasted; people are being only slightly more enabled than they otherwise would have. From my not-tech-educated perspective, the things done with WebCT could be done better in other ways, and it has not improved my experience with the school. Having read your commentary, I think I understand better what the package is used for, and I'm left wondering why Simmons didn't locate something more fulfilling to fill those roles. Simmons College mandates instructor use of WebCT. It’s forcing some reluctant instructors to take a feeble step or two onto the path (with the e’er-receding horizon) toward technological competence, but basically it’s wasted; people are being only slightly more enabled than they otherwise would have. From my not-tech-educated perspective, the things done with WebCT could be done better in other ways, and it has not improved my experience with the school. Having read your commentary, I think I understand better what the package is used for, and I’m left wondering why Simmons didn’t locate something more fulfilling to fill those roles.

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