Journal: What makes learning meaningful?
Entry 1: Describe your own meaningful learning experience
Your first entry should describe a meaningful learning experience that you have personally had in the past. You should describe one positive experience in detail.
Please write your entry here.
Entry 2: Assumptions about learning
Your second entry is a simple one: given whatever you have described in the first entry, what assumptions have been made (implicitly or explicitly) about how people learn?
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Entry 3: Theories of learning
Your third entry should focus on theories of learning (behaviourism, cognitivism, constructivism, or any other theories that you research independently).
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Entry 4: Theories of motivation
Your fourth entry should focus on theories of motivation, for example, the Lepper and Malone model, the ARCS model developed by Keller and Suzuki, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation as covered in Deci and Ryan’s Self Determination Theory, or any other theories of motivation that you have researched.
Please write your entry here.
Entry 5: From real to digital
Your fifth, and final entry is about the move from “real” to digital. Your learning experience is likely to have taken place in a face-to-face environment, but don’t worry if that’s not the case. The key here is to think about those features of the experience that made it meaningful: what were they, and how could you recreate them when designing a technology-enhanced learning experience? This is a very important step in the design process: when designing technology for learning, many of us simply copy what we’re used to. However, much of the technology-enhanced learning that is out there isn’t particularly inspiring, motivating, or well designed. It’s not always clear that the designers have thought long and hard about how to best engage and motivate their learners. So, it’s up to you to break the cycle!
Please write your entry here.