Tag: scaffolding
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Jan Herrington’s model of Authentic learning
A few days ago I met with my supervisor to discuss my research plan for the year. She suggested I look into Jan Herrington’s work on authentic learning so I thought I’d make some notes here as I familiarize myself with it. To begin with, there are 9 elements of authentic learning (I believe that in…
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Problem based learning: transitioning to an online / hybrid learning environment
A few weeks ago I attended a short presentation by Prof. Meena Iyer from Missouri University. Prof. Iyer spoke about how she moved her PBL module from using a traditional, mainly face-to-face approach, to an online / hybrid approach. Here are my notes. —————————- “All life is problem solving” – Karl Popper How do we…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-08-22
Researching then and now http://t.co/o9XqgCz. Great points on the importance of careful, deliberate reading in research # Out of Africa http://t.co/jl9d1EX. Educational innovation in resource constrained environments # Agile learning: How ‘making do’ can evolve into ‘making good’ | ALT Online Newsletter http://t.co/sNbaI1L # Scaffolding in Complex Learning Environments: What we have gained and what…
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Posted to Diigo 06/18/2010
Gilly Salmon’s Five Stage Model: a useful referrence « Mollybob Goes To School Salmon’s model moves away from the increasingly dated notion that the effective eLearning can be achieved through static learning objects (Downes 2005), and takes a social learning perspective with particular emphasis on communities of practice, providing a framework to support Wenger’s assertion…