{"id":818,"date":"2017-09-17T20:29:27","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T00:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/?p=818"},"modified":"2017-09-18T14:49:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-18T18:49:14","slug":"low-hanging-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/low-hanging-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Hanging Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Something was bothering me about our unit 1 readings and I couldn’t put my finger on it until just now, the readings from Watters (2014) didn’t sit well with me. \u00a0It’s not because I don’t agree with her, in actual fact I think she is probably 100% correct in her assertions. \u00a0What bothered me is the retrospective critique of past online edtech failures. \u00a0As I mentioned, I agree with her and the author knows way more that I ever will on the subject, but I just think it’s too easy to pick off this low hanging fruit without being someone who was directly involved with these projects. \u00a0Watters \u00a0writes about failures of OpenCourseWare, Fathom, and AllLearn as monumental disasters and seems to insinuate that this could have been avoided with proper planning, design, and organization. \u00a0The problem I have with this is that she has no way of knowing all of the circumstances in which each of these projects were built (maybe they were government funded and were pushed through for political reasons?).<\/p>\n

This reminds me of situations I used to run into all the time as a contractor, people would have a project completed by another contractor (not myself) and be unhappy with the results. \u00a0They would then ask me to come over and comment on all of the perceived problems with their work. \u00a0I always resisted the urge to comment on things because I had no way of knowing the conditions that the project was built in..they could have \u00a0rushed by the owner, advised that it was ‘good enough’, or perhaps they just got what they paid for and shouldn’t have ‘cheaped out’ in the first place. \u00a0Unless you have actually been part of the project, your retrospective observations are biased.<\/p>\n

Sorry for the rant…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something was bothering me about our unit 1 readings and I couldn’t put my finger on it until just now, the readings from Watters (2014) didn’t sit well with me. \u00a0It’s not because I don’t agree with her, in actual fact I think she is probably 100% correct in her assertions. \u00a0What bothered me is … Continue reading Low Hanging Fruit<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[48],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt523","tag-lrnt-523"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}