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Course: Child Psychology - 0 views

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  • Module 1.  Test Driving the Course At A Glance
    • Kimberly Barss
      Kimberly Barss on 22 Jul 11
       
      You have these titles above every link to pages within your course...how do you get them? I see that Alex has them in our class too but I'm struggling to accomplish this!
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Course: Bioethics - 0 views

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    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 22 Jul 11
       
      I love the set up of your page. How did you do this?
    • Kimberly Barss
      Kimberly Barss on 22 Jul 11
       
      If you turn editing on and click the little "edit" icon you can format a lot of what the home page looks like....the Wiki turned out better than I expected, I'm not sure how it would go over in "reality" with students though. I'm so scared of some activities just flopping and being total failures! What about you?
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    Family fun and cool games online site with rulebooks tips and strategies for various indoor and outdoor kids games and fun activities for the entire family to enjoy, How to Play Cops and Robbers Objective To win a game of Cops And Robbers, all the robbers must be caught and placed into the jai
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Interactivity: A Forgotten Art? - 1 views

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  • Interactivity: A Forgotten Art?
  • Interactivity in learning is "a necessary and fundamental mechanism for knowledge acquisition and the development of both cognitive and physical skills" (Barker, 1994:1)
  • Interaction is intrinsic to successful, effective instructional practice as well as individual discover
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  • Interacti
  • The implementation of interactivity can be perceived as an art because it requires a comprehensive range of skills, including an understanding of the learner,
  • the importance of rigorous instructional design and the application of appropriate graphical interfaces
  • Support Interactivity
  • Similarly, Ambron & Hooper (1988) described interactivity as a state in which users are able to browse, annotate, link and elaborate within a rich, non-linear database
  • In contrast, Jonassen (1988) identified five levels of interactivity which focused more on the user's involvement with the application and the subsequent effect on learning.
  • The five levels included the modality of the learner's response, the nature of the task, the level of processing, the type of program and the level of intelligence in design. In relation to these levels, it was also suggested that the level of interactivity would affect whether surface or deep learning would occur
  • The taxonomy however does provide a useful starting point for developing our understanding of interactivity. The three levels, which significantly extend the definition of Rhodes & Azbell (1985), range from basic stimulus:response interactions (reactive) to learner construction and generative activity (proactive) to mutual "artificial or virtual reality designs, where the learner becomes a fully franchised citizen in the instructional environment" (Schwier & Misanchuk, 1993:12)
  • understand that quality in an instructional resource is a function of the design effort, not the technology.
  • from simple help messages to complex tutorial systems.
  • The construct class of interactivity (proactive elaboration) is an extension to update interactivity, and requires the creation of an instructional environment in which the learner is required to manipulate component objects to achieve specific goals
  • With hyperlinked interactivity (proactive navigation), the learner has access to a wealth of information, and may "travel" at will through that knowledge base.
  • The first dimension, engagement, refers to interactivity which is either navigational (where the user moves from one location in the application to another) or instructional (where the user is involved with the content in a way designed to facilitate learning). The second dimension, control, refers to the extent to which the system (program control) or user (learner control) is making the instructional or navigational decisions. The third dimension, interactive concept, provides an indication of the type of interaction which might be expected under the varying conditions defined by the model.
  • proposing three dimensions by which interactive instruction may be viewed.
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Behaviorism: Not As Dead As Previously Thought - 0 views

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  • the behaviorist view isn’t one of passive absorption of knowledge,
  • It is one where the learner actively engages the world around him, and learns through experience (p. 9)
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MIT OpenCourseWare | Writing and Humanistic Studies | 21W.755 Writing and Reading Short... - 0 views

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  • different writers have addressed issues of plot, character, place and theme
    • Donna Angley
      Donna Angley on 16 Jul 11
       
      I'm feeling more confident that my modules are right on topic.
  • devoted to workshops of original student stories.
    • Donna Angley
      Donna Angley on 16 Jul 11
       
      This is really a great idea and one that I will keep in mind as my course evolves. I really enjoy writing myself and watching students write creatively, so this might be something I'd want to incorporate into my course eventually.
  • Reading the stories and articles as assigned and participating in discussion of these works is the center of our exploration.
    • Donna Angley
      Donna Angley on 16 Jul 11
       
      The discussions in the online environment are the heart of the course learning activities.
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  • We shall workshop stories by both professional writers
    • Donna Angley
      Donna Angley on 16 Jul 11
       
      Excellent idea!
  • your journal
    • Donna Angley
      Donna Angley on 16 Jul 11
       
      My students will be blogging as their journaling tool.
  • The requirements to receive an A are harder to quantify, but they include more sophistication and grace in the writing, lively storytelling, and prose that approaches publishable quality.
    • Donna Angley
      Donna Angley on 16 Jul 11
       
      Seems a little vague...perhaps a rubic would help students to understand how to get the "A"
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Learning by teaching - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • Students as teachers in order to improve the learning-process
  • Jean-Pol Martin developed the concept systematically for the teaching of French as a foreign language and gave it a theoretical background in numerous publications.[9] 1987 he founded a network of more than a thousand teachers that employed learning by teaching (the specifical name: LdL = "Lernen durch Lehren") in many different subjects, documented its successes and approaches and presented their findings in various teacher training sessions.
  • . The new material is divided into small units and student groups of not more than three people are formed. Each group familiarizes itself with a strictly defined area of new material and gets the assignment to teach the whole group in this area
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  • Advantages Student work is more motivated, efficient, active and intensive due to lowered inhibitions and an increased sense of purpose By eliminating the class division of authoritative teacher and passive audience, an emotive solidarity is obtained. Students may perform many routine tasks, otherwise unnecessarily carried out by the instructor Next to subject-related knowledge students gain important key qualifications like teamwork planning abilities reliability presentation and moderation skills self-confidence Disadvantages The introduction of the method requires a lot of time. Students and teachers have to work more than usual. There is a danger of simple duplication, repetition or monotony if the teacher does not provide periodic didactic impetus.
  • Sudbury schools, since 1968, do not segregate students by age, so that students of any age are free to interact with students in other age groups. One effect of this age mixing is that a great deal of the teaching in the school is done by students.[18] Here are some statements about Learning by teaching in the Sudbury Schools:[19] "Kids love to learn from other kids. First of all, it's often easier. The child teacher is closer than the adult to the students' difficulties, having gone through them somewhat more recently. The explanations are usually simpler, better. There's less pressure, less judgment. And there's a huge incentive to learn fast and well, to catch up with the mentor. Kids also love to teach. It gives them a sense of value, of accomplishment. More important, it helps them get a better handle on the material as they teach; they have to sort it out, get it straight. So they struggle with the material until it's crystal clear in their own heads, until it's clear enough for their pupils to understand
  • This cooperative atmosphere mimics potential workplace scenerios that students would expect to find in there careers after college
  • Jean-Pol Martin (1989): Kontaktnetz: ein Fortbildungskonzept, in: Eberhard Kleinschmidt,E.(Hrsg.), Fremdsprachenunterricht zwischen Fremdsprachenpolitik und Praxis: Festschrift für Herbert Christ zum 60. Geburtstag, Tübingen. 389-400, (PDF 62 KB)
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Teaching as a subversive activity - 0 views

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  • Diane Gusa on 04 Jul 11
     
    Mike, thought you would like this reference as you work through your course. Older book but still thought provoking.
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Humor, Analogy, and Metaphor: H.A.M. it up in Teaching - 0 views

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    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 09 Jul 11
       
      Very strong statement!
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 09 Jul 11
       
      I am a metaphoric person...when I want to remember or learn deeply a metaphor helps me.
  • The proper use of humor, analogy, and metaphor appropriate to the topic can provide benefits in the college classroom.
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  • Better comprehension,
  • increased retention of material,
  • more comfortable learning environment
  • effective use of these strategies.
  • Humor has been defined as “the mental faculty of discovering, expressing or appreciating something that is comical, amusing, or absurdly incongruous” (Merriam-Webster, 2001, p.564)
  • The use of humor as a pedagogical tool has been shown to reduce classroom anxiety, create a more positive atmosphere, as well as facilitate the learning process (Berk, 1996, 1998; Garner, 2003, in press; Glenn, 2002; Hill, 1988; Pollio & Humphreys, 1996).
  • Garner (in press) found that participants who were exposed to a series of lectures containing course-specific humor demonstrated increased retention of the course-content information as compared to those who received the same material without the infusion of humor.
  • According to Glenn (2002), humor may physiologically help to connect left-brain activities with the right-brained creative side
  • teaching philosophies of highly-rated teachers finds the use of humor as an important component of their teaching strategies. Humor can increase (Civikly, 1986) and sustain (Dodge & Rossett, 1982) student interest in learning and provides a means to engage in divergent thinking. Instructors’ use of effective humor in the classroom can foster mutual respect (Kher, Molstad, & Donahue, 1999), provide commonalities and connections between the instructor and students (Pollio & Humphreys, 1996) and even increase class attendance (Devadoss & Foltz, 1996; Romer, 1993; White, 1992). According to Bergen (1992), “teachers who use strategies that promote the connection between humor and learning usually provide students with their best school experiences” (p.106).
  • Metaphor and analogy have historically been used as an effective teaching tool. Greek myths, religious texts, and fairytales all use metaphor, analogy, and parables to teach and help us learn expected conduct (Gorden, 1978). The use of metaphor and analogy is pervasive in society in both language and communication
  • According to the National Research Council (2000) the effective use of metaphors and analogies is an important educational strategy.
  • . In teaching, using either analogy or metaphor allows the instructor to relate a potentially unfamiliar idea with that which is familiar.
  • Pedagogical use of analogy and metaphor can enhance learning and retention, but they must have a high degree of resonance for the listene
  • be most effective, an analogy or metaphor must transfer ideas from a familiar concept to one that is less familiar or unknown. According to Bowers (1993) the metaphorical relationship must be clear and accurate—possessing face validity.
  • Williams (1986) suggests that vivid metaphors have the capability to teach in a way that is not always available with the use of words alone.
  • Diane Gusa on 09 Jul 11
     
    I am comfortable using metaphors, but will need to work on the humor aspect. New goal for the Fall semester.
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Multimodal Learning Blog - 0 views

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  • As Siegel (2006) points out, “children have always engaged in what are now called multimodal literacy practices” (pg.65) Children naturally talk about, dramatize and draw ideas that they are reading and writing about. Furthermore, using multiple modes or sign systems can provide new and deeper meaning (Siegel, 2006, pg. 71)
  • Research to date shows that when curricular changes include multimodality, those youth who experience substantial success are the very ones who’ve been labeled “struggling reader” or “learning disabled” (Siegel, 2006, pg. 73)
  • Many progressive pedagogies such as constructivism, experiential learning and inquiry learning emphasize the importance of building upon students’ experiences, knowledge, skills and interests (Rowsell, Kosnik & Beck, 2009.)
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  • In his recent video, An Anthropological Introduction to Youtube,  Michael Wesch (2008) persuasively outlines the ways in which the world has changed through new media, and how education can and should harness the potential of this new world.
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Multimodal Learning Through Media: What the Research Says « PRACTICES - 0 views

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  •  that students learn more when teachers present material through multiple modes and media rather than in just a single mode.
  • The data shows that students of all ages retain more verbal information — textual or oral — when educators supplement it with visual and multimedia examples.
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Teachers as experts in . . . inquiry? « Fires in the Mind - 0 views

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  • Browse: Home / Featured Posts / Teachers as experts in . . . inquiry? Teachers as experts in . . . inquiry? A study just published in Science magazine sure makes one think twice about how we deliver “content knowledge” the classroom. The method by which a course is taught, it indicates, may be even more important than the instructor’s background. In a college physics class, listening to a lecture by a highly experienced and respected professor yielded fa
  • a control group performed more than twice as well when their teachers—a research associate and a graduate student—used discussions, active learning, and assignments in which students had to grapple with both new and old information.
  • “deliberate practice,
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  • These students had time to synthesize and incorporate new ideas from the lecture into their prior knowledge and experiences.
  • ombined in-class practice and frequent formative assessments (such as pretests) with an emphasis on real-world applications.
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Using Student Centered Discussion Forums to Enhance Student Participation in Online Cou... - 0 views

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    Discussion Forums as student-centered activities
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elearningpost » Articles » Experience-Enabling Design: An approach to elearni... - 0 views

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      Diane Gusa on 05 Jul 11
       
      Course evaluations would help here.
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      Diane Gusa on 05 Jul 11
       
      I know it took me some time to find myself around. Some of my activity problems was reflection of problems of "getting aroung" What was intuitive to some was not for me. I wonder if the difference of linear thinking (most adults) and global thinking (me).
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 05 Jul 11
       
      This describes my experience thus far in this course structure.
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    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 05 Jul 11
       
      Key point and it follows how does the designer then rethink the product base on the learner's mind?
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 05 Jul 11
       
      This course is an experience.
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 05 Jul 11
       
      I wonder if this statement can be translated to social (emotional), teacher (behavioral), and cognitive presence?
  • Experience is a way in which the self relates or connects emotionally to the world. Experiencing something involves a complex set of psychophysical processes: sensation, perception, apperception, cognition, affection, and sometimes conation. Added to this, is the interplay of psychosocial factors like expectations, attitudes, needs, desires, etc.
  • sheer absences of structural orientation cues
  • For elearning to be successful, it needs to be crafted for experience at all the above three levels
  • Psychologist Alice Isen and her colleagues have shown that positive experiences are critical to learning, curiosity, and creative thought.
  • She discovered that people who felt good were more curious, better at learning, and were able to come up with creative solutions (Isen, A. M. 1993). The scope of design therefore, should extend beyond functionality to fulfill the need for experience.
  • a designer cannot control the development of expectations in the learners' minds
  • The designer can only control the product
  • Creating experience is the art of emotional, behavioral and cognitive engagement with the consumer.
  • dded to this, is the confusing maze of open and closed spaces and a gloomy and rugged floor to traverse while finding your way out of the confusion.
  • ease and intuitive way of getting in, moving around and exiting are the experience factors. How do we bridge this gap between layout and experience? Four possible guidelines, which can help a designer ensure outcomes are experienced in an elearning product, are: Embrace experience as an outcome Create a shared language Narrow the gap from idea to outcome Drive constituent parts towards total experience
  • One needs to cultivate a method of detachment by distancing oneself from the idea in order to evaluate its validity.
  • contribution as creating spaces that evoke desired experiences.
  • Establishing geography lets the viewer get the bearings on the topography of the event.
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IMAeco: Activities - 0 views

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      Diane Gusa on 08 Jul 11
       
      I am curious why you are using twitter. I am still considering twitter myself. I posted on diigo using twitter as a notetaking forum.
    • Diane Gusa
      Diane Gusa on 08 Jul 11
       
      Is the essay a final summative evaluation?
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Why I do what I do | JJ Wagner - 0 views

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  • How do you interact in this course?
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      alexandra m. pickett on 04 Jul 11
       
      ok... you can dig deeper here!! how do you INTERACT in this course? REFLECT on this. I want you to dig and get vulnerable.
  • not a strong point of mine.
    • alexandra m. pickett
      alexandra m. pickett on 04 Jul 11
       
      can you explore why that is? or rather, why you think that is so? I challenge this assumption that you have about yourself. And i will ask you how is that working out for you in this course and in your life?
  • The intensity of discussion online. 
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      alexandra m. pickett on 04 Jul 11
       
      do you see a pattern? I would like you to explore this. can you let go (a little) of this crutch? pretend you are good at it. pretend you enjoy it. open up to the possibility that doing this activity will help you in ways that at this moment you can't imagine. trust me. trust yourself. you are not alone. things aren't tidy. not everything has a right answer. you don't have to control everything and in fact you can't... that is an illusion. i want to know why you are clinging to it.
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IIER 20(2): Khine and Hayes - Investigating women's ways of knowing: An exploratory stu... - 0 views

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  • Personal epistemological beliefs, one's beliefs about the nature and acquisition of knowledge, and their role in the learning process have become a focus of a growing body research in recent years. Studies show that a person's epistemological beliefs play an important role in their intellectual development as well as in learning specific subjects (Hofer, 2008)
  • Research in personal epistemology looks into ways of knowing, focusing on the nature of knowledge (certainty, structure and source of knowledge) and beliefs about learning (speed and ability to learn). The exploration of different learning or cognitive styles and in particular the relationship between gender and epistemological beliefs in tertiary education contexts is an area of much current research focus.
  • Their subjects described five ways of knowing - received knowledge, subjective knowledge, constructed knowledge, procedural knowledge, all similar to those of Perry, and silence. From their data Belenky et al. distilled these five epistemological positions down to focus on two: preprocedural and procedural knowing, which corresponded to 'relativism' in Perry's scheme. In 1986 this work culminated in the publication of "Women's ways of knowing: The development of self, voice and mind".
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  • Importantly, they saw that CK and SK scores were not related to performance and thus concluded that 'ways of knowing' were more reflective of a learning style or approach rather than a reflection of ability or intellectual capacity (Gallotti et al., 1999)
  • Baxter Magolda (1992) describes ways of knowing as being "related to, but not dictated by gender" (p.8)
  • Students' separate knowing and connected knowing scores, however, did predict preferences for different kinds of teaching.
  • Separate knowing scores were always higher in males whereas females had always higher connected knowing scores. The connected and separate knowing scores of males were not significantly different, whereas females typically showed significantly higher connected scores.
  • , learning occurs in different ways for different people in different situations, and may be affected by the learning styles of others who are present. According to Gallotti et al. (1999), students tend to prefer teachers whose style reflects their own. Schommer-Aikens and Easter (2006) find it likely that teachers' personal epistemological paradigms would impact on their decisions about forms of instruction, curriculum and evaluation. Should this be the case, an awareness on the part of the teacher and the learners of the predominant or favoured ways of knowing within a learning context might be seen as a useful tool in designing classroom activities which take into account student diversity.
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  • ues: Provides emotional and psychological closure to the classroom thereby reducing awkwardness. Acts as an opportune time to summarize central ideas and review content. Wraps up the class in ways that add to students' entire semester-long experience and sense of accomplishment.
  • Give students some memento from the course experience. Just as with a memorable trip, people enjoy having something to remember important events in their life.
  • Contribute to a sense of accomplishment. In one sense an activity can put closure on the class from an academic or learning based perspective. Completing your class should be seen as something worthwhile and important.
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  • Create the feeling that the class has come to a culmination and it is time to move on.
  • Projects, Letters, Brochures
  • Emotional Parting Way
  • Taking the time to say "good bye" and "thank you" to students can be very effective.
  • Particularly meaningful quotes can be distributed to students, or put on an overhead at the end of the last day of the course or during the final as a way of ending the class
  • Your own style.
  • Type of Closure
  • If no community, no need for closur
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ISJ 27: MYTHS ABOUT ONLINE EDUCATION: - 0 views

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  • Online education, on the other hand, is declared to be “a more student-centered, collabora- tive, and egalitarian learning environment” (Weisenberg & Hutton, 1996). In this new paradigm, students become self-motivated managers of their own learning instead of passive bystanders, with the ability to select learning activities that best fit their backgrounds, interests, and careers
  • (Zhang and Nunamaker, 2003), while instructors move away from the roles of an oracle, lecturer, and purveyor of knowledge toward those of a facilitator, guide, and mentor (Bernard et al., 2000; Eastmond, 1996; Leidner & Jarvenpaa, 1995; Murphy & Cifuentes, 2001; Raymond, 2000; Shedletsky & Aitken, 2001; Weisenberg & Hutton, 1996). In essence, it is believed that the online forum breaks down the teacher-student hierarchy (Weisenberg & Hutton, 1996).
  • Our conclusion after reviewing the various points of view on this issue is that the notion of stu- dent-centeredness needs to be further clarified before one can even start determining whether or not the student-centered philosophy is a precondition for effective online IS courses
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  • This myth, somewhat related to myth #2, arises from and also reinforces the belief regarding the (allegedly) changing role of faculty.
  • This myth therefore implies that Page 11 Sarker & Nicholson 65 online education either automatically enables a change, or at the very least, requires a change in attitude/approach of the instructor in order to be effective
  • Our own conclusion is that the “guide” versus “sage” debate reflects deep-rooted assumptions and philosophical beliefs regarding the nature of education, including online education, rather than empirical reality associating pedagogical style and effectiveness of courses delivered over different media. I
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