- Social Constructivism
- Students are encouraged by social context
- Learning is an active social process
- Encourages discussion with peers to facilitate individual learning
- Cooperative Learning
- Students are encouraged to work together in groups on learning tasks
- Collaborative Learning
- Based on the works of Piaget (1952), Bruner (1985) and Vygotsky (1978).
- Students have an active role in the learning process
- Construction of collective knowledge in the classroom
- The control of learning is turned over to the students and the teaching is student-centered
- Knowledge Building
- Community knowledge, collective responsibility
- Constructive uses of authoritative sources
- Embedded, and Transformative Assessment:
- Democratizing Knowledge
- Epistemic Agency
- Idea Diversity
- Improvable Ideas
- Pervasive Knowledge Building
- Real Ideas, Authentic Problems
- Rise Above
- Knowledge Building Discourse
- Symmetric Knowledge Advancement
- TPACK - Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Theories on Guided Distance Teaching
