Stephen Downes points to
Stephen Downes points to an article by Ruth Clark on four learning architecture, commenting,
Work by Ruth Colvin Clark, referred to in the links below, is becoming a standard division of types of architectures of instruction. In a nutshell, Clark four major types of architecture:
- Receptive - instruction is provided in a fixed linear path from beginning to end, as in a video or television show
- Directive - a path is suggested through a learning hierarchy, but the learner can flip back and forth, as in a book
- Guided Discovery - learners are encouraged to explore a learning environment, as in a simulation, case study or scenario
- Exploratory - learners may freely search or jump from place to place, as on the world wide web, an information database or a library.
Shifting from one computer to another, I realized that I don't have
Stephen's excellent daily news on the
eLearning Jump Page -- I am signed up for the daily deliverable, so I didn't notice the missing link.
Here's a page of links to all of Stephen's articles.
"Learning how to learn is life's most important skill."
-- Tony Buzan
"I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it."
--Pablo Picasso
"It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned."
--Leslie Jeanne Sahler
Posted by Jay Cross at August 5, 2002 09:43 PM
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