“Let’s put Learning back into blended learning: A collectionist framework” Professor Johannes Cronjé, Dean of Informatics and Design,
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Bio
Johannes Cronje is Dean of the Faculty of Informatics and Design at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. He has supervised or co-supervised more than 65 doctoral and over 80 Masters’ students. He has published more than 45 academic papers in peer-reviewed journals and has been a visiting professor or visiting scholar at more than six international universities.
Abstract
Most definitions of blended learning based on two dimensions. The one dimension varies between contact and distance. The other ranges from high to low technology. On closer inspection, however, it is evident that these two die mentions have nothing to do with learning and always distance or technology. In a post-COVID world it is necessary for us to reconsider what we mean when we talk about blended learning. It is very clear that technology has managed to breach the constraints of distance. It is also clear that the prevalence of free open-source learning materials Has liberated the domain of knowledge. We therefore have to reconsider what it is that facilitators of teaching and learning actually do, since it may have extreme ramifications in the design of education generally.
This presentation proposes a new definition of blended learning that is based on the die mentions of direct instruction and problem-based learning in which individual learners become collectors and curators of their own knowledge systems.
I will present a number of case studies in which freely available cloud-based software is used to facilitate learning. From there I will propose that collectionism may be a new lens through which to view teaching and learning in future.