"A learning platform built on a foundation of social mediated knowledge communities helps fulfill the goals of critical pedagogy to disrupt formal power imbalances between student and faculty while also tearing down the walls of the ivory tower" (Wankel, 2011, p. 349).
* Mix and match the components of Flow;
* Keep the user's experience within the user's Flow
Zone;
* Offer adaptive choices, allowing different users to
enjoy the Flow in their own way; and
* Embed choices inside the core activities to ensure
the Flow is never interrupted.
For me the first pioneer in learning sciences is Immanuel Kant since for him awareness of knowledge may begin with experience but this knowledge already existed befor this experience. I relly like this quotation from him.
"Up to now it has been assumed that all our cognition must conform to the objects; but all attempts to find out something about them a priori through concepts that would extend our cognition have, on this presupposition, come to nothing. Hence let us once try whether we do not get farther with the problems of metaphysics by assuming that the objects must conform to our cognition, which would agree better with the requested possibility of an a priori cognition of them, which is to establish something about objects before they are given to us. "