Gary’s recent post on Persuasion, plus this link from him on the changes surrounding important US concepts like “work ethic”, fit into a broad context of what makes for “successful learning”. IOW, are “students/learners” getting what they need, and what “society” and/or employers need from their learning activities?
A big question, or challenge…and we, along with many involved in the evolution and development of new Defined Learning Experiences (DLE) see at least part of the landscape and some of the “moving parts”. The tricky thing is that everything we know about what makes for successful learning needs to be incorporated into new DLE…from the MOOCs to certificate programs to trainings, and conventional schooling….plus anything/everything in between.
Some of the moving parts are already well-developed, but they are not likely yet incorporated into one thing. That thing we call the Social Learning Construct (SLC).
One might think of what’s needed as a kind of mashup of effective elements…which in a sense is already occurring in the cloud…people experience a stream of different types of media experiences, and contexts for same…without an over-arching construct or plan…but often within and in response to social networks.
“Willy Nilly”. The goal most broadly stated is to harness willy nilly into a construct of learning, that embeds the learning into a process with others that enhances the power of learning for all involved. If well designed, the assumption is that learning is a successful ongoing activity when all the available tools and support for effective learning are present….especially the social support, or “collaborative means” of learning.
So SLC is the kitchen sink approach, everything and…
and depends on discovering through research and trial and error what is the best way to structure and enable group interactions that support learning and “change behavior” in subsequent activities. (heavily based in the cloud but using some F2F components).
Here’s one link on getting learning to change behavior.