This document discusses different contexts of learning and how technology is changing ideas about learning. It addresses how interactive learning can be a powerful instructional tool, and how curriculum needs to be high-quality, effective, and continuously evolving. It also discusses new dimensions of self-directed learning using MOOCs and social media, and how online learning has become a global trend due to high-tech communication and teleconnections across borders.

1. CONTEXTS OF LEARNING
OCCURS IN A LEARNING EVENT,
CONTENT & CONTEXT
PREPARED BY
BARBARA O’GORMAN – EDUC6023 – M.Ed. IN ADULT
EDUCATION – YORKVILLE UNIVERSITY

2. WEB IS CHANGING OUR
IDEAS OF SOCIAL ACTION

3. TEACHING AND PARTICIPATORY
CULTURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Interactive Learning
Powerful instructional tool for
learning in the classroom

4. HIGH-QUALITY, EFFECTIVE
LEARNING AND
CONTINUOUSLY EVOLVING
AND RELEVANT
CURRICULUM..

5. NEW DIMENSIONS TO SELF-
DIRECTED LEARNING
“Self-directed learner using MOOC
will not be able to call on trusted
educators for support in their
learning but rely on the aggregation
of information and informal
communication and collaboration
available through social medial to
advance their learning” (Kop &
Fournier, 2010, p. 1).

6. BOUCHARD (N.D.) IS MAKING US AWARE
THAT NOT ALL INFORMATION PRESENTED
BY TECHNOLGOY IS VALID YET WE AS
USERS NEED TO BE AWARE THAT THE
NETWORK DOES CONTRIBUTE TO BUILDING
OF KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING;
HOWEVER, WE NEED TO ALWAYS BE
FINDING NEW AND CREATIVE WAYS FOR
SHARING INFORMATION ON THE NETWORK.
WE NEED TO AVOID THE PITFALLS OF
WHERE WE FIND OUR INFORMATION AND
NOT ALLOW OURSELVES TO BECOME
OVERLOADED WITH INFORMATION. WE ALL
KNOW THAT WIKIPEDIA IS NOT A
RESOURCEFUL SOURCE YET LOTS OF
ONLINE USERS GO TO THIS WEBSITE FOR
INFORMATION.

8. “ONE THING IS CERTAIN, LEARNING
COMMUNITIES ARE MORE ENGAGING
AND MEMBERS MORE ENGAGED THAN
IS THE CASE WITH TRADITIONAL
INSTRUCTION.”
OILS (2001) NOTED THAT LAVE AND
WENER’S “DEVELOPMENT OF A
THEORY OF ADULT LEARNING
WHICH SITUATES LEARNING IN
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY SITES HAS
CONTRIBUTED TO UNDERSTANDING
KNOWLEDGE FORMATION THROUGH
INFORMAL LEARNING (P. 253).

9. MOD ER N W OR K PLA C E LEA N IN G
EMBRACES ALL THE WAYS WE LEARN

10. TECHNOLOGY HAS MADE
ONLINE LEARNING THE
NEW GLOBAL TSUNAMI
Global economy has changed my
view of adult education due to high
tech communication which allows
one to diffuse ideas more quickly and
broadly. There are more
telecommunications connections
across borders. Bouchard stated that
“the new online environments compel
us to redefine what it means to teach,
to learn and how (p. 305).