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McLean McIntosh Post 1

• 12 December 2020, 11:05 PM

Learning at Scale

Not all forms of pedagogy can be scaled to meet the needs of an online audience.  Lectures can be delivered to groups of 10 or 1000 people simultaneously.  But other forms of pedagogy such as sports coaching can't be scaled up quite so easily?  

Questions

1.  Does our own choice of pedagogy put us under more time pressure because we have to go round each of our students 1 by 1?  Could we adapt our practice to make use of practices that are more scaleable?

2.  Are our learners capable of communicating with each other in a way whereby they help each other to learn and are less reliant on the lecturer as a "font of all knowledge"?


Rhiannon McIntosh Post 2 in reply to 1

• 8 January 2021, 10:54 AM

As a learning mentor not a teacher I have found that although most forms of instruction can be change into a different format or approach some aspects that need to be taught are hard to do at a distance or online as physical techniques need to be assessed. Where most types of what I must impart on a group could be transposed either digitally via videos or live chats or via writing such as documents or email. In my roll in have to make sure that my trainee can control their movements and force while wielding Larp weapons which is hard to assess at a distance.

 

Being a mentor at a Larp means I encourage those who are learning the game to ask, practice and discuss things amongst themselves and when longer running members also impart knowledge all the better.  A situation where others can learn from each other is good although care must be taken that they are learning correctly from others.  Bad practice can be learned as easily as good practice if where and what knowledge is not monitored.