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Explicit teaching and solid pedagogy
A major unforeseen event in the timetable and the teacher once again finds himself short of time and resources... How can he get his students to revise and make sure they've understood the material in such a short space of time? These are common situations that stand in the way of strategic learning development. The overriding concern in any teaching or learning situation remains student success, and explicit teaching can help achieve this, depending on the context.
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Good online courses help students succeed. But what helps them?
You can't expect everything from a course. Its objectives must be clear and its pedagogy must adhere to them, but other conditions are also necessary for an online course to promote student success. What 28,000 online students can teach us. The conditions for success can also be put in place around an online course.
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Towards a high level of relational quality in facilitation
High relational quality is probably the point that differentiates somewhat mechanical facilitation from facilitation that sticks as closely as possible to the energies/needs/desires/imaginings/potentials of a group.
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Classic pedagogy. I love it!
The spirit of classicism, "the moral apprenticeship of freedom and nobility (or beauty)", seems to be just as at home on the Internet as it is with socio-constructivism. Plato and Socrates would be right at home here, if only school were indeed "classical".
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Pairagogy at work
Exploring pairagogy as a natural learning environment at work
