Pedagogy: General teaching strategies and frameworks for technology facilitated social learning

Column 4 moves towards application to practice by looking at a number of pedagogic strategies for technology facilitated social learning. Key points include consideration of the way in which online learning communities represent a continuous crossover between the real and the virtual spheres; and the idea that learning within the community is everyone’s responsibility and that this can be described by the cognitive apprenticeship and technology stewardship models. The R2D2 model emphasises reflection and doing, and Heick’s model of technology integration describes stages towards self directed learning. Active Blended Learning has become a model at the University of Northampton, that puts an emphasis on strong links between on and offline activities, active online tasks that result in concrete doing or producing, on social learning, and on student generated content.

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