How Do People Learn? (cont'd from cover page)

Reflection on a big question is amplified when it enters collaborative inquiry, as multiple styles and approaches interact to respond to the challenge and create solutions. In How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School, John Bransford and colleagues describe a legacy cycle for collaborative inquiry [3], depicted in a figure by Vanderbilt University researchers [4] (see image, lower left).

The legacy cycle is the design for the 2004 Sloan-C Online Learning Research Workshop in which participants will build a legacy of responses to some big questions.

Sloan-C will "go public" and publish the workshop results, so please join in and test your thoughts, or stay tuned for the results.

[1] Michael Danchak. "Using Adaptive Hypermedia to Match Web Presentation to Learning Styles." Elements of Quality Online Education: Into the Mainstream. Needham, MA: Sloan-C, 2004 (forthcoming).
[2] D. Randy Garrison, "Cognitive Presence for Effective Asynchronous Online Learning: The Role of Reflective Inquiry, Self-Direction and Metacognition". Elements of Quality Online Education: Practice and Direction. Needham, MA: Sloan-C, 2003.
[3] John Bransford, Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking. Eds. How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. The National Research Council, 2000. An online, searchable pdf is viewable at:
http://www.nap.edu/html/howpeople1/
[4] "Instructional Design Patterns and Their Use Within CAPE":
http://www.isis.vanderbilt.edu/
projects/VaNTH/patterns.htm.
See also the useful demonstration of how people learn at
http://hpl.peabody.vanderbilt.edu:
16080/exploringhpl/explorehpl/
fullmap.htm