Constructivism as the Driver of 21st Century Online Distance Education

Reid-Martinez, Kathaleen; Grooms, Linda D.

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“…The online "Facilitators and Developers Platform" allows all adults to train, prepare and coordinate their performance, and receive weekly feedback and coaching. As a result of this disaggregation and coordination, the students continuously interact with content, peer, and facilitators, in a way that allows them to be the protagonists of their own learning process [4].…”

Section: Crowdsourcing Based On Functions Disaggregation and Coordinamentioning

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Self-sustaining Crowdsourcing: Beyond the Wikipedia Model to Make pK-12 Computer Science Education Universal in Developing Countries

Sanchez¹,

Peraza²

EPiC Series in Education Science

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Progracademy (PRG) is a program that seeks to make universal the development of 21st-century competencies (6Cs) -with emphasis on computational ones, in underprivileged pK-12 students of developing countries. PRG proposes a self- sustaining crowdsourcing solution applied to education, with the two key innovative components: i) extra-supported online Computer Science courses (MaxiMOOCs on Collaborative Programming) for pK-12 students who work in teams during school time (PRG Lab) and/or after school (PRG Club), and ii) an online platform that empowers and coordinates online volunteers, teachers, and parents in order to support students. PRG is a solution for underprivileged schools’ severe limitations of resources and institutional capacity to develop 6Cs in students. PRG’s seeks a quadruple social impact at scale and cost-effectively: i) achieve students’ 6Cs educational objectives, ii) build capacity in the schools’ teachers and administrators to educate in 6Cs, iii) develop 6Cs in the volunteers that support the students, and iv) mobilize sustainable support from the for-profit sector and civil society to the public education system. After a successful pilot in a Venezuelan school belonging to the largest educational NGO in Latin America –Fe y Alegria, PRG is now being piloted in Ecuador in two schools from the same NGO.

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Section: Crowdsourcing Based On Functions Disaggregation and Coordinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Self-sustaining Crowdsourcing: Beyond the Wikipedia Model to Make pK-12 Computer Science Education Universal in Developing Countries

Sanchez¹,

Peraza²

EPiC Series in Education Science

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Online Learning Propelled by Constructivism

Reid-Martinez

Grooms

2018

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Fourth Edition

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Online Learning Propelled by Constructivism

Reid-Martinez

Grooms

2019

Advanced Methodologies and Technologies in Modern Education Delivery

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Augmenting communication in and among those in the academic, business, and military communities, the exponential advancement of science and technology has availed vast amounts of information to virtually millions of people around the globe. In conjunction with this knowledge explosion has been a growing concern for the democratization of the learning process, with constructivism driving much of the educational agenda, most particularly in online distance education. This chapter examines the resurgence of the constructivist approach to teaching and learning, its convergence with rapidly changing technological advances, and its relationship to future trends in online pedagogy.

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Constructivism as the Driver of 21st Century Online Distance Education

Cited by 5 publications

References 14 publications

Self-sustaining Crowdsourcing: Beyond the Wikipedia Model to Make pK-12 Computer Science Education Universal in Developing Countries

Self-sustaining Crowdsourcing: Beyond the Wikipedia Model to Make pK-12 Computer Science Education Universal in Developing Countries

Online Learning Propelled by Constructivism

Online Learning Propelled by Constructivism

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