Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Tuesday, September 03, 2002

http://lttf.ieee.org/learn_tech/issues/july2002/index.html#9

Using hypermedia to build web mediated constructivist learning events
Kathy Skinner, Learning Systems for Performing Excellence

When building a web mediated learning event, it is important to ask, "How will the pedagogy used support a best practice in education?" Web mediated learning events may be used to deliver instruction at a distance, or they may be used to extend the classroom experience. Either way, the hypermedia nature of the web makes it possible to simulate most of the best practices that are used daily in classrooms in the "real world". One of those best practices is to facilitate a constructivist learning event. The constructivist learning movement is a natural outgrowth of a refinement of two models of learning that have long been considered to be best practices in education. And, the hypermedia nature of the Internet provides a way to facilitate virtual learning events that are consistent with both of these models....

 



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