The E-learning Curve at Edublogs

Chris Argyris, Professor Emeritus at Harvard Business School, has made significant contributions to the development of organizational learning theory and experiential learning.

Any company that aspires to succeed in the tougher business environment …must first resolve a basic dilemma: success in the marketplace increasingly depends on learning, yet most people don’t know how to learn. What’s more, those members of the organization that many assume to be the best at learning are, in fact, not very good at it.

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There are a range of views on what the term ‘constructivism’ means in the context of learning, but it can be said that most definitions would agree that it has these characteristics:

Learning is an active process of constructing rather than acquiring knowledge and
Instruction is a process of supporting that construction rather than communicating [...]

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There are a range of views on what the term ‘constructivism’ means in the context of learning, but it can be said that most definitions would agree that it has these characteristics:

Learning is an active process of constructing rather than acquiring knowledge and
Instruction is a process of supporting that construction rather than communicating [...]

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In their seminal 2001 white paper Powering the leap to maturity: The eLearning ecosystem, Pat Dillon and Chas Hallet suggest a useful interpretation and use for the traditional learning curve, and introduce their concept of the e-learning curve. They assert that emerging technology has changed the focus of corporate learning systems from task-based, procedural training [...]

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In their seminal 2001 white paper Powering the leap to maturity: The eLearning ecosystem, Pat Dillon and Chas Hallet suggest a useful interpretation and use for the traditional learning curve, and introduce their concept of the e-learning curve. They assert that emerging technology has changed the focus of corporate learning systems from task-based, procedural training [...]

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Theoretical approach – content delivery
Today’s post discusses an approach to the delivery of multimedia content in an open (or indeed any) e-learning environment.
As Richard Mayer observes:
Multimedia messages that are designed in light of how the human mind works are more likely to lead to meaningful learning that those that are not. [...]

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Theoretical approach – content delivery
Today’s post discusses an approach to the delivery of multimedia content in an open (or indeed any) e-learning environment.
As Richard Mayer observes:
Multimedia messages that are designed in light of how the human mind works are more likely to lead to meaningful learning that those that are not. [...]

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Phase One: Using a Constructivist Theoretical Approach
Bruner’s 1966 text Toward a Theory of Instruction described the key principles of constructivism (p.225):
Table

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Phase One: Using a Constructivist Theoretical Approach
Bruner’s 1966 text Toward a Theory of Instruction described the key principles of constructivism (p.225):
Table 1 Principles of constructivism

Principle

Definition

Readiness

Instruction must be concerned with the experiences and contexts that make the student willing and able to learn

Spiral organisation

Structure.

The content must be [...]

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In their 1974 work Theory in practice: Increasing professional effectiveness, Chris Argyris and Donald Schön support the constructivist argument that individuals (and in the context of this paper particularly knowledge workers) have schemata or mental maps both for their skill assets and they contend, with regard to how to act in situations. This directs the [...]

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