Online Constructivist Instructional Strategies
Constructivist instructional strategies have some characteristics that you can incorporate them into your project to design your online learning activities. Instructional strategies are different from activities, and technology. The are the "driving force" to make your learning activities dynamic with technology integration. While we are designing any online instructions, we need to make sure we distinguish them from one another.
It is very important that you have good understanding in these learning theories and strategies. This is not an exhausted list. There are many strategies can be integrated. In addition, these strategies may overlap due to the constructive learning natures.
Below is a list of online constructivist instructional strategies can be integrated into online instructional designs. This is not an exhaust list of strategies.
- Online Student Publishing
- Online Student Presentations
- Online Learning Community (p.319)
- Online Collaborative Learning
- Online Jigsaw Collaboration
- Online Reflections: (Blog, journal, or portfolio)
- Self reflections
- Group reflections
- Digital Portfolio or ePortfolio
- Online Discourse & Context Awareness
- Online Discussions & Debates
- Online Peer Discussion Moderation
- Online Peer evaluations
- Online Collaborative Evaluations
- Combined teacher evaluation, peer evaluation, & self-evaluation.
- Online Collaborative Evaluations
- Online Interaction:
- Learner-Learner; Learner-Instructor; Learner-Interface
- Digital Storytelling
- Online Multi-Sensory learning
- Multimedia learning
- Online Role Playing
Broader instructional strategies
- Online Inquiry-based learning
- Online Problem-based Learning (p.142)
- Not clear between Problem-based learning and Project-based learning, or X-based learning? Read: Project-based learning vs. problem-based learning vs. X-BL
- Online Project-Based Learning
- Online Cased-Based Learning (p.174)
- Online Resource-Based Learning (p.247)
- Computer-mediated Communication/Instructions (CMC) (p.288)
- Digital Product-Oriented Learning
- Online Cooperative Learning (p.302)
- Online Service-Learning
- Online Cognitive Apprenticeship (p.199)