Resistance to change is common in education. Resistance may be exacerbated
by a focus on technology and tools rather than on activities, processes,
and solutions to shared problems. Social media, MOOCs, and Personal
Learning Networks are all conceptually remote and, even withing the
literature on these topics, there is little agreement over what they really
are. This means that dialogue about these topics is highly theoretical. It
is very clear from the Blogosphere and from teacher led discussion fora
that most teachers are not interested in theory: they are interested in
what they can do in class tomorrow and how [...]
This is an archive of the 2013 version of ocTEL.