{"id":975,"date":"2013-02-22T23:23:38","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T22:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orfeu.org\/2013\/02\/22\/another-great-post-by-tony-bates-part-of-his-aha-moment-series-it-is-really-worth-reading-them\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:39:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T17:39:25","slug":"tony-bates-computers-for-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/tony-bates-computers-for-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Bates on computers for communication"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another great post by <span class=\"proflinkWrapper\">Tony Bates<\/span>, part of his &#8220;aha moment&#8221; series. It is really worth reading them all &#8211; testimonies from someone who embodies the history of distance education and technology supported learning. This sense and knowledge of history is seriously lacking in the ongoing discussion around MOOCs and online learning.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tonybates.ca\/2013\/02\/20\/no-4-aha-moment-computers-for-communication-not-as-teaching-machines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">No. 4 aha moment: Computers for communication, not as teaching machines<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This is the fourth in a series of posts about the most seminal \u2018discoveries\u2019 in my researching and working in educational technology, where I discuss why I believe these \u2018discoveries\u2019 to be important, and their implications specifically for online learning.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another great post by Tony Bates, part of his &#8220;aha moment&#8221; series. It is really worth reading them all &#8211; testimonies from someone who embodies the history of distance education and technology supported learning. This sense and knowledge of history is seriously lacking in the ongoing discussion around MOOCs and online learning. No. 4 aha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-s-r"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa7w8s-fJ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/2080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josemota.pt\/sr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}