On 15/09/09 10:52 AM, "Steve Eskow" <steveeskow@gmail.com> wrote: <snip>

Bricks and clicks are not "in opposition" to each other. They are, however, quite different instructional technologies, and in general the bricks have been the master technology that organizes instruction. The lecture hall and the classroom are not merely empty containers--they are, in Giddens' term,"constitutive"--they shape what goes on in within them. "We shape our buildings and then they shape us": the "lecture". the 50-minute-class, the very form of the "curriculum" are shaped by the spaces of the campus.

I don't think we're in disagreement here. What I'm saying is that the forms of the shapes can be increased and made more flexible by providing online material. We can increase the uses of the shapes that we have, and maybe add new ones.

It may turn out that adding clicks to bricks dilutes the instructional power o f both, while adding the cost of clicks to the cost of bricks.

The cost of bricks is already extremely high - at least where I work. But I think that the addition of clicks to the bricks can mean that you get better value from those bricks. Mary-Helen