Week 10 - task 1 - Wenger vs Prensky

When looking at both of the notions by Wenger and Prensky, you can see that the two do connect quite well. Prensky believes that distance learning will eventually be very popular and places all over the world will have the option of doing distance learning courses. As, like with all courses, people will pick a subject that interests them. And because part of distance learning would usually involve a forum where the online lectures and seminars can be discussed, this would make the forum as CofP because as discussed in my earlier blogs I believe that our forum is a CofP. Therefore, Prensky's idea of distance learning becoming more popular would fit into Wenger's notion of Communities of Practice (CofP).

This unit that we're doing is a type of distance learning unit because our seminars take place online in the forums and on each others blogs. And I would definitely say, and have already said, that our forum and our blogs are a type of CofP because we are all heading for the same goal and the language we used on our blogs is a shared repertoire that only we'd understand where as somebody not doing out course might not understand what we're discussing in our blogs.