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Archaeology of an online course: Teaching and learning as social engineering
Author(s) -
Delamarter Steve
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
teaching theology and religion
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.165
H-Index - 11
eISSN - 1467-9647
pISSN - 1368-4868
DOI - 10.1111/teth.12445
Subject(s) - face (sociological concept) , course (navigation) , online learning , mathematics education , psychology , online course , online teaching , teaching method , pedagogy , sociology , computer science , multimedia , engineering , aerospace engineering , social science
Abstract This essay distills pedagogical principles that have emerged through a dozen years of experience teaching a seminary introductory Old Testament course online. The rich interactions and social cues that professors rely on to monitor student learning in face‐to‐face classrooms are replaced by a carefully choreographed pattern of student learning activities and peer‐to‐peer discussion prompts through which the professor “engineers” student learning. A careful description and analysis of the pedagogical intentions and choices embedded in the design of an online course reveals a sociology of online learning and the author's implicit theory of how learning happens.