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 they align to each other or one another. Many indicated you constantly change, modify, and shift your ideas about the relations and the relationships between/among strategies.   In fact, this is the most valuable part of the assignment because many of you reflected there was no specific way to relate them.  I like many of you indicated that the more you relate them; the more you observe their relations and relationships.  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 be afraid that your analyses are getting more complicated.  I only worry about your analyses are not complicated enough. I hope after the complicated analyses, you observe some patterns.

I see a few of you use both table and figure to help you to observe the relations and relationships.  I think this is an excellent approach.  Perhaps just one way to fit may not satisfy your knowledge.

Several of you expressed that simply explaining each strategy is no value at all.  The true learning part came out while you are fitting, aligning, or relating multiple strategies to one another. If you went through this process, you truly challenged yourself.  It is the core value of this assignment. Now you know when why we don't want to use any template.  In fact, one of our classmates said: if we use the same template, our analyses would be very similar to each other or even identical.  Do you agree?  I hope you are proud of yourself even just completing this assignment.

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 one of our classmates. 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."

I integrated Kaizena with audio feedback again to enrich our assignment feedback.  I hope you find it useful.