Educational experiences for today’s learners
Posted by Jacque on August 14th, 2006
Heather Shea-Schultz and John Fogarty, authors of the 2002 book, Online Learning Today: Strategies That Work, are among those who talk about the importance of “information age” learning. Sometimes lists like the one below seem like obvious common sense to us, but do we always follow their principles when we create educational experiences, or — for those of us who have been in the business for awhile — do we tend to fall back into the patterns of our own pasts?
Here’s how Shea-Schultz and Fogarty’s book characterizes “information age” learning:
- Diversity and individuality
- Discovery and experience
- Process learning of quality content
- Interdisciplinary learning
- Creative and intuitive processes
- Collaborative environments
- Technology as an integral tool
- Flexible use of facilities
- Community collaboration
If you develop training, are you creating for today’s environment, or are you locked into static and rigid processes, an isolated teaching environment (me teach, you learn – and by yourself, please), and technology as an isolated tool?
