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Are There Limits to the Affordances of Online Learning?

  Have you ever used online learning to achieve your potential and realize your own capacities? Even with almost 20 years of experience in corporate training design and consultation, particularly in eLearning, I can't say that I have personally utilized online learning to achieve a long-term learning goal focused on self-improvement or self-advancement that was self-initiated. For example, I recently assumed the role of product owner in Dell's Education Services department. This week, a group of us are attending online, synchronous certification training, but this was a business requirement. So while it does represent a self-advancement opportunity, it wasn't one that I was internally motivated to pursue. Yet, I consider myself an avid online learner. Much of that comes in the form of just-in-time learning to address a particular short-term goal. I've watched YouTube videos to repair our dishwasher and stop our car from honking continuously after I replaced the battery,