Learn at a Distance

Interactive instruction focuses on interaction among learners, with the instructional leader and with other experts to enhance understanding and improve communication and collaboration skills. Interactive instruction can be challenging when teaching in online asynchronous environments. When thinking about designing an online course, instructors often look to traditional, face-to-face teaching experiences…

I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. – Socrates Indirect instruction refers to a set of learner-centered methods to encourage student involvement in observing, investigating, drawing inferences from data, or forming hypotheses. A goal is to maximize students’ learning goals and encourage  problem-solving and collaboration. Leaner-centered…

Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.  – Susan Sontag Concept Attainment – verbal or graphical examples are presented and students figure out the common attributes say between predator and prey or impressionistic and representational art. This…

Direct instruction is the use of explicit teaching techniques like lecture, demonstration or presentation, usually employed to teach a specific skill or set of information. Direct instruction is a teacher-centered and passive learning model, in which the students receive instruction rather than actively participating in the construction of the learning…

“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water…