Online Courses
Moodle and Social Constructionism: Looking for the Individual in the Community
Posted July 15th, 2008 by Luke Fernandez, Weber State
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Luke Fernandez reviews a recent Moodlemoot in San Francisco. Listening to Martin Dougiamas and John Seely Brown about the promise of social constructivism and communal learning, Fernandez gets religion...almost. Read his account of the good in Moodle and the things Moodle would do well to remember in its creation of communal learning environments.
Faculty as Authors of Online Courses: Support and Mentoring
Posted December 12th, 2005 by Deborah Cotler and Gail Matthews-DeNatale, Monmouth University
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Echoing Balsamo and Schilling, Gail Matthews-DeNatale and Deborah
Cotler argue that online course authorship requires faculty to develop
a new skill set.
"Our current challenge is to ensure the development of online learning
that engages learners in the open-ended, inquiry-based learning that we
believe is at the heart of a liberal arts education. We are finding
that excellent professors whose face-to-face teaching is grounded in a
liberal arts approach to learning may sometimes encounter difficulties
when they take their teaching into the digital realm."
