Teach and Learn Online: Lawsuit forces Web2 learning strategies

Leigh Blackall comments on the WebCT accessibility lawsuit and outlines some more open alternatives. But the overhead of learning the tools is substantial. Which is fine if that’s what the course is about – ie if the medium really is the message. But until we can expect universal facility with a standard set of tools (which I agree should definitely not be proprietary), it seems that the communication tools of e-learning will be useful primarily just in communications courses.