Ebbinghaus came up with the ‘Forgetting Curve’ to indicate how what we learn is soon forgotten unless we continue to engage with it, social learning is a painless way to repeat this engagement process. It also defies the latent loneliness of studying alone with your books and eBooks, LMS and PLE.
The historian EHCarr said ‘study a subject until you hear its people speak’, in a social learning context you hear these voices. A commentator on Radio 4 (search in my OU Student blog for the reference) said some months ago ‘research a subject until the narrative reveals itself’ which as my subject of interest is e-learning is achieved by doing this, over a 1000 e-learning posts in my blog and over two years on the Open University’s MA in Open & Distance Learning.
I picked up the name Ebbinghaus in a paper written by James Cory- Wright on the Brightwave website, responded to a prompt for disucssion in an Epic Linkedin Group and am posting all of this in my Open University Student Blog to share with fellow travellers on the MAODE: H807, H808, H 800, H810, H809 and/or any ellectives a person may choose to do as an alterantive.
Epic and Brightave, along with Kineo and others are part of the e-learning cluster in Brighton.
Find out more at Wired Sussex.
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