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ERIC Number: EJ1276312
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
Pages: 10
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ISSN: EISSN-1479-4403
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Building Creative Critical Online Learning Communities through Digital Moments
Barber, Wendy
Electronic Journal of e-Learning, v18 n5 p387-396 2020
This paper is a mixed methods case study measuring student perceptions of a pedagogical strategy called "Digital Moments" (DM) for developing creative interactive online learning communities. The theoretical framework within which this resides is the Fully Online Learning Community (FOLC) model (vanOostveen et al, 2016), based on a foundation of problem-based learning, cognitive and social presence, and learner-centred pedagogies. The article reviews a specific teaching strategy for increasing social presence and student engagement through the use of creative and artistic expression in problem-based learning spaces. Using "Digital Moments" as a way to build inclusion in two synchronous graduate online courses, the author describes how the teaching strategy increased student participation, developed student ownership of learning, and encouraged collaborative processes between participants. This teaching strategy makes a significant contribution to digital pedagogy. Although the growth of online learning is quite substantial, our ability to develop online communities that inspire critical and creative thinking has not kept pace. Traditional teacher-centred learning environments do not meet the needs of students in today's Fourth Industrial Revolution. As such, the FOLC model provides an online learning community model that removes traditional teacher-learner roles, allows the instructor to act as a facilitator and challenges learners to co-design and co-create the learning process. Within this digital space, collaborative disruption is encouraged, and, in fact necessary for the types of critical and creative thinking to emerge that are central to the FOLC model. Digital Moments, is one example of a pedagogical strategy that enables learners to co-create and own the digital learning space, within a fully online learning community.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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