While driving today, I got some refinement to the idea I presented earlier. This came as a result of some discussion with Ann about her Program Concept restructure. My new idea relates to Blooms Taxonomy. Traditional learning program structure suggests that programs should have objectives. Courses should have a set of objectives that align with the program objectives. The course objectives should use the right frame: an action verb, a quantifiable criteria and an environmental condition. Google Bloom for more details.
My idea builds up on this concept and suggests assigning to each course objective an activity type that comes from one or more of these categorizes:
1. Behavior: is an activity that involves a behavior change based on the instructor's value set. Examples: soldiers in an army, medical interns, religious followers, wiki users. 2. Experience: is an activity that enhances the knowledge and or skills of the person. Example: learning Math formulas, laws of physics, Social Studies facts, Wiki tools and rules. 3. Creation: is an activity that encourages a student to create their own knowledge. It is experiential activities that creates personal knowledge. Examples: (TBC) 4. Networking: is an activity that that encourages students to create preset knowledge based on group interaction. Examples: brainstorming. 5. Bohemic: is a free form networking activity that allows the group interaction to create new knowledge which does not conform to a predetermined structure.
These are progressive activities. Carrying any higher activity embeds activities from the lowers ones. For example, creation activity includes behavior and and Experience activities.
As you can tell, the terminology have evolved from the previous post. I assume it will continue to evolve as the idea matures.
The next 2 steps: (1) Create a set of action verb that could be used for each category and a set of classroom and online activities that could be used with each type. (2) Relate the action verb and sample activities to online courses.
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