Online Learning Can Be Engaging and Effective
Howard Rheingold,
Medium,
Jan 03, 2022
Those of us who have been working in online learning for a long time know it can be engaging and effective, provided certain conditions apply. And Howard Rheingold has working in it for longer than most. "Online learning done badly is often the reason for negative outcomes," he writes. Characteristics of what Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown call A New Culture of Learning, he writes, is that "it is learner-centered, social and peer-to-peer, inquiry based, collaborative, cooperative, playful, networked." And these take new skills, what he calls "the metaskills of co-learning, blended learning, and informed use of social media." I agree, and this has been my experience as well. There's more detail in this article, worth a look if your first foray into 'remote learning' has been less than ideal. Image: Walden.
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