Common Feedback & Instructor¹s Reflection for Assignment 2: Analysis for ONLE Instructional Strategies

Many of you found this assignment is very challenging.  Yes, it is because it requires us to have clear and comprehensive understanding on every single strategy in addition to overall how how they fit. Many indicated you constantly change, modify, and shift your ideas about the relations and the relationships between/among strategies, the most challenging process. I assume you would agree it is not a one-way relation and relationships.  Could it be multi-dimensional? Relate one strategy to another OL strategy and/or ONLE strategy?  If it is a multidimensional relations and relationships, what our diagram may look alike?  Just name a few. How will you relate mashup-aggregation-resources, InfoViz-RSS-Aggregation, Participatory Web-UGC-Student Publishing-Collaboration-Online Learning Community-Community/Community Interaction?  

Do you see both OL and ONLE instructional strategies as hard technology or soft technology?  Frequently, I say it's not what you have; it's how you put together matters. Make sense?

Here is a very inspiring reflection shared by Chris Udavare. I hope you had similar experiences.

"This became a more difficult task than I had first anticipated. I thought at first I would just be drawing circles or boxes with connecting lines and call it a day. I found that in order to really find the relationships between these strategies required a new perspective of incorporation. The egg within an eggs design afforded me this perspective.

The question has been asked as to which is a better pathway, ONLE or online learning. The answer to me is, I think currently there might not be a "better" per say, but as education (hopefully) continues to evolve, the ONLE strategies can certainly take us to another evolutionary level upon which we can evolve into lifelong learners who are globally connected."