The E-learning Curve at Edublogs

This month’s Learning Circuits Blog Big Question is “For a given project, how do you determine if, when and how much an instructional designer and instructional design is needed?”
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I wonder how many of you are familiar with this situation? A PowerPoint presentation and demonstration script for some end-user training on a certain process arrived [...]

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Well, I had to redefine all learning in order to write the book because the world is changing so fast. The concepts we had when knowledge was fixed in place, like something you could put in a library, don’t work anymore. So I look at all learning as adaptation to the communities that matter to [...]

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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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Significantly, Jonassen et al point out that learning is not restricted to formal learning environments, and that learners can “acquire sophisticated skills and advanced knowledge in natural learning situations” (p. 28).

Table 1 Characteristics of a computer-based learning environment (after Jonassen, 1994)

Characteristic

Definition

Active:

Learners are engaged by the learning process in mindful processing of information [...]

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