Ray Schroeder, founding director of the UPCEA National Council for Online Education, introduced a new term to me in this post: heutagogy. First, he distinguishes andragogy (the teaching of adults) from pedagogy (the teaching of children) using Malcolm Knowles’ four principles of adult learning theory: Adults need to be involved in the planning and evaluation […]
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Solving Public Problems in ENGL 202U
At the encouragement of my English doctoral dissertation chair at Old Dominion University, I’ve experimented with the design and structure of the ENGL 202U Critical Writing and Research II class that I’ve taught the past several years. I’m sharing this experience with members of the CoP because results from students’ end-of-semester evaluations have been surprisingly […]
Don’t Forget, Instructional Design Is About Problem Solving
In this EduCause Review blog post, Camille Dickson-Deane (Educational/Instructional Design Consultant at the University of Melbourne) and Tutaleni I. Asino (Assistant Professor of Educational Technology at Oklahoma State University) offer a quick refresher on the origins of instructional design, which is especially valuable because the demand for what we do is increasing. As Kyle Peck reminds us, “a […]
Adult Learning Theory: Malcolm Knowles & Andragogy
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