I feel like online learning has become very task list oriented, and it has been for good reasons. But i'm afraid that in that tascifying of all the things that happen in an online course, we've kind of taken any joy or excitement out of the learning. And so i i feel like we need to put a little bit of attention back into that idea of spark and transformation - what really engages learners and makes them excited about the content.
Maria Andersen shares about how learning is not a spectator sport on episode 177 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
I feel like we’ve made online learning really transactional.
— Maria Andersen
We’ve taken the joy and excitement out of learning.
— Maria Andersen
The world is not as cut and dried as the problems we see in text.
— Maria Andersen
You don’t actually learn until you engage with it.
— Maria Andersen
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