WK.5 Personal Reflection: Constructivism and OLE

Open-end Online Education (OLE) and Constructivism

OLE provide an environment to support exploration, they may e used to foster learner obtain or creating knowledge, they are frequently an environment in which learners practice the application of new knowledge.
According to some of the class discussion, open-end learning environments are not suited for learning by tutorials methodology. However, matrix which has two dimensions might be learned using a tutorial, with the leaner controlling the sequence, or might used OLE if comfortable. The most important is that if content does not have a single clear and logical sequence, better to use open end learning environment instead of tutorial methodology.
Hannafin and his colleagues discussed some specific problems with OLE to solve problems and goals, where learners have to choose their own methods with limited set of tools to solve the problems. I like OLE when it’s more use in guiding and practicing not in presentation or assessments. Example are, Tasper Woodbury, The Geometer’s Sketched (deciding where to head next in geography search. On the order hand, OLE incorporates other methodologies, such as – simulations, drill, games, hypermedia, web-base learning, and others.
What qualified the online education environment as constructivism is the ability for individual leaner to create unique digital identity, the ability to maintain a portfolio of work, and the ability to asynchronously engage in a self-directed learning experience. The social constructivism will apply to OLE when learner perspectives are put in mind. Theories of social constructivism applied where collaborative efforts to learn, and to facilitate information indexing/access natural blurring of disciplinary boundaries, and the interlinking of knowledge categories.



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