Posted on August 9, 2008 by ictied
The guidelines for teaching and learning design raised in session four are important and Pelz expands on each of these will examples- the first impression may be that they are counter intuitive and that they rely too much on the students. What do you think?
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II. APPLIED ONLINE PEDAGOGY
A. Principle #1: Let the students do (most of) the work.
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| 1. Student Led Discussions: Student led discussions are a major learning activity in all of my ‘reading’ courses: Introductory Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Social Psychology and Abnormal Psychology. To a somewhat lesser extent, I also use student led discussions in my ’skill’ courses: Freshman Seminar, Statistics for the Social Sciences, and Experimental Psychology. |
| 2. Students Find and Discuss Web Resourses: |
| 3. Students Help Each Other Learn (Peer Assistance): |
| 4. Students Grade Their Own Homework Assignments: |
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B. Principle #2: Interactivity is the heart and soul of effective asynchronous learning.
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| 1. Collaborative Research Paper: Students collaborate to develop topics, organize their paper, and collect web resources. The completed paper is submitted for class discussion. |
| 2. Research Proposal Team Project: |
| C. Principle #3: Strive for presence. |
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