Share Paper: Educational Theory DOES APPLY to Online Learning - Using the Recursive Model for Knowledge Development in Virtual Environments along with the related measurement tool - Virtual Learning Environment Survey (VLES)

  1. Nan Adams, Southeastern Louisiana University, United States
Thursday, October 30 1:30-1:50 PM Salon 824

Abstract: For educators that endeavor to develop effective learning practices in the new cyber landscape, the changed teacher and learner roles in virtual environments should be central to the design of responsive virtual learning environments. To do this, basic assumptions about appropriate teaching and participant learning roles in these virtual settings must first be defined, how the intentions of these roles guide practice in virtual learning spaces must then be described, and measures of the degree to which these roles are present in virtual classrooms must be developed. Adams’ (2007) Recursive Model for Knowledge Development in Virtual Environments provides a framework ...