[Xerte] Elearning Authoring Paper

[Fred Riley]

> Quite. The idea that HE is somehow immune from the need for 
> faster or cheaper is naïve. 

The point is, and this goes back to at least 1992 when I got started in educational technology (as was), that corporate and HE needs are fundamentally different: in brief, companies want training, HE wants education. One is behaviourist, the other cognitive. In the corporate world, CBT (as was) is a way of cutting training budgets and substituting for people; in HE, CAL (as was) is a way of improving the student experience and is complementary to teachers. 

In the corporate world, the bottom line is the bottom line - profit or loss. In HE, the bottom line is producing graduates capable of independent meta-thinking in a wide variety of environments. Chalk and cheese.

Fred