Not just videos!
Posted: January 14, 2016 Filed under: Education, Opinion | Tags: advocacy, aesthetics, education, educational research, higher education, moocs, on-line learning, principles of design, teaching, teaching approaches, thinking, tools, video Leave a comment
Just a quick note that on-line learning is not just videos! I am a very strong advocate of active learning in my face-to-face practice and am working to compose on-line systems that will be as close to this as possible: learning and doing and building and thinking are all essential parts of the process.
Please, once again, check out Mark’s CACM blog on the 10 myths of teaching computer science. There’s great stuff here that extends everything I’m talking about with short video sequences and attention spans. I wrote something ages ago about not turning ‘chalk and talk’ into ‘watch and scratch (your head)’. It’s a little dated but I include it for completeness.
Nick Falkner 