The Social-Constructivist approach to designing an LMS-based course is unlike the Instructional approach in that rather than having a teacher as the expert and stressing a relationship between the students and the teacher, this approach depends largely on the collaboration
Instructional Design is an approach we’ve all experienced: the curriculum-based format in which the teacher dispenses information. Former posts discussed problems with traditional classroom pedagogy, and how these days, and especially with LMS-based courses, there’s a greater emphasis on student
Before creating an LMS-based course, it’s important to have an understanding of the different pedagogical perspectives that exist. Have you ever come up with a great idea for a story, but when you sat down to write it, you realized
Online language courses run by learning management systems can be quite successful, despite some critiques. First of all, one could argue that online language courses address all kinds of problems facing school systems today: limited language course offerings, language teacher
High school level LMS-hosted language classes are a perfect example of courses leaving something to be desired. The Spanish teacher for whom I substitute-taught had taped colorful signs on the walls reminding students about important Spanish rules–which bore no consequence.
Students taking the LMS-hosted Spanish course told me this was among their favorite classes–ever. They were able to look at Spanish words and understand, más o menos, what was happening in the text, all thanks to an LMS-based course that
