| Constructivism | Communities of Practice | Networked Learning |
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Key Features | • Learning is an active, contextualized process of constructing knowledge through experience. • Active creators of own knowledge. • Ask questions, explore, assess what we know. • Experience and reflection. | • Learning is a social, collaborative process. • People who have common interests collaborate over an extended period of time. • Contribute ideas and strategies, determine solutions. • Embrace share responsibility. | • Learning is perceiving connections between fields, ideas, and concepts. • Use of internet technologies to learn and share information. • Asynchronous, online, peer networks. • Faculty guide discovery and answer key questions as needed. • Learners encouraged to seek and share information on their own. |
Educational Methods | • Individual learners answer 1 of 5 case-based, wiki assignment questions across Bloom’s taxonomy. • Reflection upon other learners’ posts. • Individual learners post 1 peer-teaching, follow-up comment. | • Small group wiki communities of n = 5 learners. • Collaboration extended over M1 academic year. • Social learning; Shared responsibility. | • Blackboard® Wiki Tool. • 15 formative small group wiki assignments; 1 summative individual wiki assignment. • Learners contribute ideas, strategies, solutions, comments, and ask additional questions of one another. |