Theories on Guided Distance Teaching

Theories on Guided Distance Teaching
1. Social Constructivism
• Students are encouraged by social context
• Learning is an active social process
• Encourages discussion with peers to facilitate individual learning
2. Cooperative Learning
• Students are encouraged to work together in groups on learning tasks
3. 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
4. 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
5. TPACK - Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge