1	Dropping the e and keeping on learning Leonardo da Vinci eLearning Workshop and Contact seminar 8.-10.9.2002 Dipoli, Espoo, Finland Anne Nevgi, Senior Researcher Department of Education, University of Helsinki
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3	What is Learning? Learning should be seen as a qualitative change in a person’s way of seeing, experiencing, understanding, conceptualising something in the real world (Ramsden 1988)
4	What is Learning? Learning is relatively permanent change in a behavioural potentiality that occurs as a reusult of reinforced practice (Encyclopedia Britannica)
5	What is Learning? Learning is a human process which has an effect to those undertaking it (Barnett 1992) Learning is understanding what a written or spoken discourse is about (Marton 1975)
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7	What is eLearning? “The objective of e-Learning is to become competent in the least time and with the least amount of training, not the most.” http://www.ilearn.to/site_v5/il2_whatiselearning.htm
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15	Questions? Does eLearning change only thinking – and enlarge knowledge? eLearning and training? How to use eLearning to achieve change in affective or conative areas of personality? Do we need teaching in eLearning? What is the change we intent to achieve with eLearning?
16	References Barnett, R. 1992. Improving Higher Education. Buckingham: SRHE/Open University Press. Brockbank, A. & McGill, I. 1998. Facilitating Reflective Learning in Higher Education. Buckingham: SRHE/Open University Press. Marton, F. 1975. What does it take to learn? In N. Entwistle & D. Hounsell (eds.) How students learn. Lancaster: Institute for research and Development in Post Compulsory Education. Ramsden, P. 1988. Improving Learning: New Perspectives. London: Kogan Page.