Hei John,
1. Formative Assessment - I believe that there can be considerable
advantage in formative assessment. For example, when a learner (or
group) create a personal learning environment (like a blog) which
branches of from the main hub of the LMS (like moodle) there can be
more advantage to do formative assessment, both from a facilitator and
peer-view perspective.
2. Context - From my own experience as a life-long learner the
contextual aspect of knowledge attribution is focus on in an online
pedagogy. Although I would prefer to use blended learning as a frame
for discussion here rather than "online pedagogy". The integration of
"the everyday" is a very important feature for all learners as it
provides context to learning. Pushed more we see that the cultural
differences/similarities learners are able to discuss etc. in a online
community can be used much more in the curriculum design.
I think the above 2 points may be a response to your question "How do
we design learning opportunities for students that incorporates the
content but also address learner interests?".
Regards, technology - there is not one bit of new/old technology that
I use in online learning that I have not used in the traditional
classroom setting! This means that technology should be part of all
learning and not the main factor of discussion (for me that is :)
However, the methods/perspectives that technology highlights is of
huge interest to me. For example, Open Distance Learning (ODL). This
may be an area to add to the wiki in terms of how instruction and
technology create new spaces of learning?
regards
Paul
On Jun 28, 11:34 pm, John Patten <
johnpa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All...
>
> Interested in starting a discussion related to the advantages to
> online learning/pedagogy? What are they from a learner's standpoint,
> from a facilitator/instructor's standpoint, institution standpoint?
> Etc., etc.
>
> I added a page over on the eduMOOC wiki,
http://edumooc.wikispaces.com/home