Over the last year or so the tenor of articles from this group of authors has shifted from a hard-core emphasis on instructivism, cognitive load and worked examples to a more wide-reaching and progressive set of practices. I think this has been a shift for the better, and we're seeing the result in this article, which looks at the benefits of drawing in learning (can we cay 'constructionism' anyone?). They're following Richard Mayer and Logan Fiorella 2015 book 'Learning as a Generative Activity' and in particular Mayer's Selection, Organising, and Integrating (SOI) memory model. To me that reads a lot like the 'aggregate, remix, repurpose' approach we've been following since the days of our early MOOCs, but without the 'sharing' part (I'm sure they'll get to it). Now to be clear, I'm not saying that we invented this; we didn't, and there are versions of the same process that go back to the days of Seymour Papert and earlier. But it's nice to see these authors working on what they're now calling 'generative learning' and seeing how it relates to pattern recognition. Eventually we'll all be in sync.
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