Creating a Sense of Community among Learners in an Online Course

Kelly Elander

E-Learn: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2017 (Oct 17, 2017) pp. 338–353

The subject of keeping online learners engaged is a content concern in online learning This paper suggests that creating a sense of community among online learners can help learners better engage in the course, create a richer learning experience,...

Topics: Instructional Design, Content Development, Implementation Examples & Issues

Merging paradigms: The integration of objectivist and constructivist approaches in university settings

Kelly R. Elander

(2012) pp. 1–252

Paradigms Revisited: A Quantitative Investigation into a Model to Integrate Objectivism and Constructivism in Instructional Design

Kelly Elander; Johannes C. Cronje

Educational Technology Research and Development Vol. 64, No. 3 (2016) pp. 389–405

While learning interventions were traditionally classified as either objectivist or constructivist there has been an increasing tendency for practitioners to use elements of both paradigms in a consolidated fashion. This has meant a re-think of the...