Connectivism and Instructional Design Siemens (2004) attributes connectivism as belonging to the Digital Age where individuals learn and work in a networked environment. As such, the learning is constantly evolving. Instructional Designers can apply this theory by placing the learner at the centre of the learning and the teacher as …
Educational Context I would like to design an online teaching and learning experience for students to explore the reality of the workplace. Quite often students claim they want to be X, Y and Z but have no real sense of what this looks like in practice. Rather than spending weeks …
Learning Theories Analysis Participation Check The course I am evaluating has participation checks periodically throughout the course. This lends itself to the Behaviourist model as responses are reinforced by positive or negative feedback; in this case a green check, praise and a mark. I think this is a boring way …
Posted in discussions also BEHAVIOURISM In what ways, if any, have you used elements of Behaviourism in your current teaching and learning practice? I mainly use elements of Behaviourism to reward desired behaviour such as correctly publishing their G-site and turning in the correct link. This will result in praise …
Online Teaching Philosophy Guide on the Side As an online educator I assume a multidimensional role (Bawane and Spector, 2009) which consequently demonstrates lots of different competencies. The integration of these competencies have allowed me to view my role an an online educator as ‘Guide on the Side‘. …
Online Versus Face-to-Face Teaching: I teach a blended course and spend 70% of my time face-to-face teaching in the classroom and the remaining 30% teaching online. For me, the biggest difference is how much slower it can be to assess progress has occurred or that a student has understood something. …
Online Course Audit I created an account with I have signed up to Shakespeare’s Life and Work offered by HarvardX The course is 4 weeks long, self-paced and requires 5-7 hours of effort each week. The syllabus is broken down into 3 parts: Biographical Interpretation Historical Interpretation Presentist Interpretation …
The History and State of Online Learning: The course design, just like in a traditional classroom based setting, will impact the online teaching and learning experience. If the expectations of the course, submission of work as well as engagement (such as discussion forums) are not explicit then the quality of …
Benefits and Challenges Activity Benefits Less travelling across the district- online lessons to all high schools can be taught from my office in Downtown. Promote professional etiquette in online correspondence (a ‘missing’ feature of the Careers course) Opportunities to personalize Google Sites for each class to meet their needs and …
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