MOOCs: What Part of Learning Goes on Where and How? - 3 views
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shared by Paul Beaufait on 26 Feb 13
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I like the idea that really good teachers could be challenged to change the way they think about learning and put their talents to work finding new ways to structure learning environments that can handle the ever-expanding population of students with widely varying backgrounds.
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Learning means actively processing the incoming information, digesting it, working with it, summarizing, paraphrasing, applying it.
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There are ways of providing electronic feedback to this kind of active learning. Our solution was to provide examples of answers that would fit the task and let the learners compare theirs. Not totally satisfying and sometimes not totally accurate.
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a more elaborate version of peer feedback, where the large group of learners respond to one another’s ideas in hopes of finding some kind of consensus.
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I think this probably works in an informed community of participants where there is a distribution of prior knowledge that can be drawn on.
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I think a community of novices still needs the guidance of a more informed individual or group of individuals.
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the essence of deep learning is in the interaction with others as we grapple with what we think we know versus what we really know. That’s the kind of online learning I’d like to see us build.