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Standards for Course Development:
Relational Basis of Learning
How to Make Your Course Address the Relational Basis of Learning
- Know the members of your learning community.
- Explain ways to stay connected.
- Articulate goals and expectations.
- Quotes on Teacher Talk [pdf]
- Quotes on Student Talk [pdf]
- Principles
- Dialogue is the heart of active learning.
- Dialogue makes learning, unlearning & relearning possible.
- Dialogue sets ideas in motion to be refined, extended, interpreted, and ultimately
applied in new settings.- Dialogue is the way we think our way into a topic.
- During dialogue problems dis-solve.
- Strategies (These strategies are written for face to face. Adapt them to your delivery
method. For examples, see the instructions for meeting this standard with WebCT.)
- Grouping Strategies (mom, do we want to put something here or delete it?)
- Quick Techniques 1 [pdf]
- Quick Techniques 2 [pdf]
- Questioning Techniques [pdf]
- KQLA [pdf]
- Knowledge Construction [pdf]
- Jigsaw [pdf]
- Inductive Reasoning [pdf]
- Pairs-Check [pdf]
- Reciprocal Teaching [pdf]
- Dyadic Essay Confrontation [pdf]
- Group Investigation [pdf]
- Cooperative Controversy [pdf]
- Reiterative Problem-Based Learning [pdf]
- At the beginning of your course, have people commit to their level of involvement in the
course or explain your expectations for student's level of involvement.- Design questions that stimulate higher levels of interaction and thinking.
- Buddy up the students and have them mail each other regularly so that they have support
in the class and feel connected to someone and not alone in the class.- See other cooperative/active learning strategies under stimulating learning experiences.
- The Web: Design for Active Learning "This handbook will present the idea of interactivity
as it applies to a cohesive design including high interface, content, and instructional design."- Learning in Hyperspace "The acquisition of wisdom from knowledge requires practice in
the judicious application of that knowledge in the personal and social context in which the
student acts."- Active & Cooperative Learning in the College A listing and description of very specific
activities that could be adapted for online learning.- Web-Enhanced Learning Environment Strategies for Classroom Teachers "This paper
presents a model for conceptualizing the components of the WWW and merges resources
with six sound pedagogical classroom practices. Six Web-enhanced learning environment
strategies result from this merger."- Cooperative Learning & Small Group Discussions Handouts for learning about cooperative
learning.- 28 Roles (in Coop Learning) A listing of roles you could assign students.
- D. Johnson's Cooperative Learning Center A selection of essays.
- Ways to Collaborate A chapter on discussion groups, data collection, organization, and
sharing, sharing documents, synchronous communication, and online courses.- Papers About TAPPED In These articles are written about a mostly synchronous online environment. Study how others are using the online environment for learning.