Because OTL might be lacking some of the coercive motivational factors of traditional education, and takes place in environments which might be rich in competitive demands on attention, OTL needs to “capture the imagination” of learners.
That’s essentially what the idea of “Edutainment” is.
[gview file=”https://publicservicesalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Turning-to-Education-for-Fun-NYTimes.com_.pdf”]We hear a lot about blended learning in the OTL context. Perhaps we should extend that concept to not just how much classroom or traditional teacher time is involved, but to the extent of which all manner of learning environments are “mashed together” to form the DLE.