“Cooperation is working together to accomplish shared goals” (Johnson & Johnson). Cooperative learning is the ability to work together, with others, to meet a desired learning outcome. This instructional approach allows students to maximize their own learning by working with… Continue Reading →

Blog Post #1:  Based on your reading, would you consider your current instruction style more behavioralist, cognitivist, or constructivist? Elaborate with your specific mindset and examples.  As an elementary school teacher, my instructional style gravitates towards the constructivist theory of… Continue Reading →

339 LEARNING SUMMARY: Learning Outcome #1: Describe the potential of human-centered learning in distributed and open learning contexts. Throughout this course, I read articles, wrote blog posts, and responded to other’s blog posts in order to meet this learning outcome. … Continue Reading →

Original Post: As I read through the readings this week, I found the journal article Teaching Online-A Guide to Theory, Research and Practice by C.H. Major, to be quite interesting. I enjoyed learning about the open and distributed courses that… Continue Reading →

I found that this week’s reading, Defining OER-enabled Pedagogy by Wiley, D. & Hilton, J., really made me reflect upon my previous learning in school, and think about my future teaching practices too. In particular, I found the four-part test… Continue Reading →

After diving into the topics of equity and access this week, the reading Digital Redlining, Access and Privacy by C. Gilliard & H. Culik really stood out to me. It discusses Digital Redlining, when marginalized groups are affected by inequities… Continue Reading →

As I read through the readings this week, I found the journal article Teaching Online-A Guide to Theory, Research and Practice by C.H. Major, to be quite interesting. I enjoyed learning about the open and distributed education courses that have… Continue Reading →

As I read through the readings this week, I came across many points that I found interesting but I found An Urgency of Teachers: The Work of Digital Pedagogy by Morris, S.M and Stommel, J. particularly interesting, especially the chapter… Continue Reading →