Marion Coomey and John Stephenson review a range of research to try to set out what designers of online learning should learn
from experience.
Activity 2
You should allow 1 hour(s), 0 minute(s).
Read the article by Marion Coomey and John Stephenson, linked below.
Click below 16 pages, 0.2 MB
View document
Consider the online paradigm grid they discuss. In what quadrant(s) would you place the units that you considered in Activity 1?
Now read the discussion
Comment
The authors look at what they call DISC to analyse the four elements of
- Dialogue
- Involvement
- Support
- Control
It seems to me that the examples illustrated in Activity 1 fit into the ‘NW’ quadrant – ‘teacher determined, task specific’.
This is true for Involvement – there is little or no scope for the learner to influence content and the activity is defined
and related to pre-set tasks. The teacher is in the role of instructor – as I guess I am here – and the learner control is
confined to responding to tasks. However, assumptions have been made about the NW quadrant that don't correspond to the units
on OpenLearn. The Dialogue can be between other learners, the teacher has no involvement, and support can come from peers,
too.
You might wish to construct a quite different type of OER to the sort that is offered here on OpenLearn, such as is described
by DISC in the other quadrants.