Collaborative learning is like a cheese fondue
I like my cohort, they're good well-meaning, engaged, insightful people.
But I'm not happy with the overall situation with my Masters Degree program. In short, I'm not getting my money's worth. It feels thrown together, ad hoc. I look at the learning objectives stated at the beginning and see that we're not coming close to meeting them. Oh, I've learned a lot. But there should be a more direct line some sort of satisfying conclusion.
Collaborative learning is like a cheese fondue. (Read like Forest Gump)
- No matter how hard you try, you end up with cheese on your face.
- Your bread gets poked off your skewer and either it's eaten by somebody else, or you're accused of leaving "floaties".
- The conversation is about the state of cheese rather than of the world.
- The biggest talkers somehow manage to hoard all the cherry tomatoes.
- Two people carry on a private chat about the poor range of vegetables.
- You just get going, then the host has to fix the faulty burner.
Maybe collaborative learning will go the way of fondues, quaintly obsolescent. Then we can get back to actually taking individual control of our learning.
Category: (e)learning, Masters Degree
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