Inventory of Influential Reading
Researcher and Citation
1) Malcolm Knowles
Knowles, M. S., Holton, E. F., & Swanson, R. A. (2005). The adult learner: The definitive classic in adult education and human resource development. Amsterdam: Elsevier. |
Annotation
1) The Adult Learning Theory moves thinking about education from one paradigm to another. "Education emphasizes the educator, while the learning emphasizes the person in whom the change occurs or is expected to occur." Learning in this context becomes the process of gaining expertise or knowledge in an area of study.
Knowles makes a statement that dovetails well into the Funds of Knowledge, "In an adult class the student's experience counts for as much as the teacher's knowledge." (p. 39) Moving toward an andragogical approach in the online course, instead of a pedagogical stance. In pedagogy, teachers are responsible for the decision making about learning content, method, timing and evaluation. In the andragogical model, the learner becomes the one responsible for making these decisions. The trick lies in designing a learning path that will motive the student, or rather enlighten the students about why the information at hand is worth taking the time and effort to learn. There are other factors that play into this model, such as learner responsibility, the learner's own experience, learner readiness, learning relating to life and internal motivators. |
2) Carl Rogers
Rogers, C. R. (1969). Freedom to learn: A view of what education might become. Columbus, Ohio: C. E. Merrill Pub. Co. |
2) The quote I want to use from this book is: "But if there is one truth about modern man, it is that he lives in an environment which is continually changing and therefore the aim of education must be the facilitation of learning." (p. 104-105)
Roger's guidelines of how to facilitate learning are among many of the principles used in designing an online course. Through the use of these principles the course is designed in such a way that the students guide themselves through the learning and the faculty becomes a facilitator of learning. |