AECT Standard 3 (Learning Environments)
Candidates facilitate learning by creating, using, evaluating, and managing effective learning environments. Indicators:
Creating - Candidates create instructional design products based on learning principles and research-based best practices.
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.
Assessing/Evaluating - Candidates use multiple assessment strategies to collect data for informing decisions to improve instructional practice, learner outcomes, and the learning environment.
Managing - Candidates establish mechanisms (p. 190) for maintaining the technology infrastructure to improve learning and performance.
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.
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)