The process through which learners journey, during which learners obtain new knowledge, analyze and work with the new knowledge towards integration into long-term conceptual frameworks of understanding, and the potential towards transforming the way that a learner conceptualizes information, the way that the learner views occurrences within the real world, and the enhancement of understanding through interacting with academic learning experiences, while equally embracing engagement with personal and professional real world environments in which the learning is formatively evaluated as viable, correct, and useful. Transformation occurs through the learner’s obtainment of new information that flows into prior knowledge, while equally offering the potential to re-analyze and rethink the world in which the learner is embedded.
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Relational Discourse Connects Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, and Threats in Online Course Design: Designing Motivational Collegial Engagement
Copyright: © 2023
|Pages: 37
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4533-4.ch007
Abstract
Online learning environments are a vulnerable space, for learners as well as for course instructors. Online environments are frequently pre-designed spaces in which traditional and non-traditional learning experiences occur, removing the natural ability to pivot and shift the instructional process that is naturally occurring within traditional face to face learning environments. Recognizing this, the importance around course design towards learner engagement and underlying motivational supports become stronger imperatives. The authors come together as instructors, learners, and instructional designers, to discuss the experienced strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats towards motivational collegial engagement in online course design. An aligned Unalome reference supports the progressive journey of motivational collegial engagement, from beginnings of motivational engagement through the path that leads into collegial engagement and future potentials.