Students have the traditional motivations, but perhaps a keener eye on specific employability than previously, and the same needs for intimacy and peer support they have always had. Governments want increased numbers going through the system. Managers want productivity and profits, efficiency and effectiveness. Institutional representatives are concerned with reputation, ideology, and distinctiveness. Vendors want sales and accreditable product lock-ins.
Educators have motivations from joy of learning to excitement of ideas to development of potential.
And so on. In this session we would like to begin to explore these and other motivations which apply in contemporary higher education, and whether the changes to working practice implied by online provision can be reconciled with satisfying all of these. The Road That Is Wide and That Leads to Destruction. Curtin University, November 30th. Using Communications Media in Open and Flexible Learning .