Jim Taylor wrote,
Hi Jim -- thanks for taking the time to post relevant bits from your thinking on appropriate pedagogies for the OERu model. Its good to know that our thinking is based on the work of prominent elearning scholars like Gilly Salmon and the research at the Australian Digital Futures Institute. The institute is one of the leading knowledge incubators working in the technology mediated learning space.The pedagogy of discovery has therefore been designed to enable students to select and evaluate relevant OER content of personal interest appropriate to their needs within the intellectual framework provided by the course structure.
From a purely business perspective-- is worth noting that the pedagogy of discover is scalable for large numbers of learners and paradoxically relatively cheap to implement from a capital course production point of view.
Another point which strikes me is the integration of digital literates into the curriculum. Would it be possible to incorporate a course credit for digital literacies into the Bachelor of General Studies idea?
Looking forward to learning more about e-moderating, especially how we might be able to bring the training of e-moderators into the Academic Volunteers International concept.
Can't wait to start designing, refining these ideas in the real world context of the OERu.