AECT_Standard_3

Candidates facilitate learning by creating, using, evaluating, and managing effective learning environments. Indicators:

1. Creating - Candidates create instructional design products based on learning principles and research-based best practices.
2. Using - Candidates make professionally sound decisions in selecting appropriate processes and resources to provide optimal conditions for learning based on principles, theories, and effective practices.
3. Assessing/Evaluating - Candidates use multiple assessment strategies to collect data for informing decisions to improve instructional practice, learner outcomes, and the learning environment.
4. Managing - Candidates establish mechanisms (p. 190) for maintaining the technology infrastructure to improve learning and performance.
5. Ethics - Candidates foster a learning environment in which ethics guide practice that promotes health, safety, best practice, and respect for copyright, Fair Use, and appropriate open access to resources.
6. Diversity of Learners - Candidates foster a learning community that empowers learners with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, and abilities.

How I apply this standard in my professional practice.

Here you describe your philosophical perspectives, research or exemplary application of this standard. Your statement is a personal perspective about your evolving beliefs that includes your conception of teaching and learning and a description of how best to apply technology.

A meaningful statement demonstrates that you are purposeful and reflective about education and that you are able to articulate your goals and actions. Statement for each standard usually ranges from 2 - 10 paragraphs.

Examples of my work for this standard.

1. My_Evidence_1 ( .pdf )

2. My_Evidence_2 ( .mov )

3. My_Evidence_3 ( .mp3 )

4. My_Evidence_4 ( .html )

My favorite web resources for this standard.

1. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)

2. Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)