Define “high quality, comprehensive and pedagogically sophisticated web-based cmi materials?
One of the tasks of The Workshop is to create Web-based computer-mediated instructional (CMI) materials that are high quality, comprehensive and pedagogically sophisticated. These descriptions are more than slogans.By high quality , we mean instructional materials informed by two sources of knowledge on teaching and learning. The first is the cumulative wisdom of practice of expert instructors. These are individuals who have thought deeply about the material, social and organizational underpinnings of productive learning and who have succeeded in translating their knowledge and understanding of these instructional factors into effective teaching practices. Expert instructors are deliberately mindful of the many different ways different students in the same learning group might encounter identical lesson activities. They are also mindful of the need for teaching practices that take into account the roles that societal tools and artifacts, situational factors and collaborative meaning ma
One of the tasks of The Workshop is to create Web-based computer-mediated instructional (CMI) materials that are high quality, comprehensive and pedagogically sophisticated. These descriptions are more than slogans. By high quality , we mean instructional materials informed by two sources of knowledge on teaching and learning. The first is the cumulative wisdom of practice of expert instructors. These are individuals who have thought deeply about the material, social and organizational underpinnings of productive learning and who have succeeded in translating their knowledge and understanding of these instructional factors into effective teaching practices. Expert instructors are deliberately mindful of the many different ways different students in the same learning group might encounter identical lesson activities. They are also mindful of the need for teaching practices that take into account the roles that societal tools and artifacts, situational factors and collaborative meaning m