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Keeping the positive feedback loop going

by Dana on 7 June 2021 with No Comments

What is feedback? Wikipedia indicates that “feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop. The system can then be said to feed back into itself.” This definition may appear at first … Read More

Exploration, Integration, OTL 101: Post 4, Resolution

What we get and what we want should always be the same thing

by Dana on 1 June 2021 with 1 Comment

Asking how we (the instructor) can get students to learn what we want them to learn is a flawed perspective. It has an air of authoritarianism on the part of the instructor, which leaves the student as a passive recipient … Read More

Integration, OTL 101: Post 3, Resolution

Piaget, Festinger and the concept of cognitive presence

by Dana on 27 May 2021 with 1 Comment

Cognitive presence, with its triggering event, exploration and integration, remind me of Jean Piaget’s concepts of assimilation and accommodation (which is a topic I cover in my courses). While Piaget focused on the cognitive processes of infants, it is highly … Read More

Exploration, OTL 101: Post 2

Learning doesn’t just happen in a classroom

by Dana on 26 May 2021 with No Comments

Vacations and leisure reading seems like a thing of childhood these days. Partially because life has been so busy, but also because the focus of my life has changed. No longer are vacations about being is a specific location, and … Read More

Exploration, OTL 101: Post 1, Triggering Event
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