Week Seven
“The history of organized education and training can be viewed as a long struggle to extend opportunities to more people and to devise means of helping those people learn better than through the events of everyday life” (Molenda, 2008, 5). I earned my B.S. in Education in 2003 and though I’ve not spent many years in the classroom since then I’ve been under the education umbrella enough to see the pendulum swing right and left a few times. There will always be a next best thing. A next best end all be all that turns out to just be another swing of the pendulum. Always things to be learned but there will never be a ‘one size fits most’ solution. Even the solutions that leave lots of space for independence and not pigeonholing will never fully fit the bill. I am frustrated with the premise of Deepak Prem Subramony’s research—that IT scholars neglect cultural diversity. Although I cannot relate personally to the level of instructional technologists, I can as a graphic designer. I wor