As part of my digital identity and digital presence (DIDP), my focus is to be more of a resident in the digital world and come up with ways where I could get the end-user engaged to participate in the learnings. Dron and Anderson (2014) stated it is “important for any software and surrounding systems designed to support networks to pay close attention to making participation….as easy and painless as possible” (p. 163). That statement has resonated with me as my overall goal is to create systems, groups, and communities where we all participate in achieving the end goal of improving our end-user ability to learn any system concisely and meaningfully.
Throughout the reading, I have learned that we need to focus on different ways to enhance learning, whether personal or work-related. For example, Daniel (1996) claimed that even though it is essential to have a “teacher presence,” it is also vital for us to note that not everyone can participate in the “traditional forms of campus-based education” (p. 18). Therefore, we need to alter online learning to be as effective as in-person education. This is true not only for academic learning platforms but also for corporate learning platforms.
Dron, J., & Anderson, T. (2014). Teaching Crowds. Athabasca University Press. https://read.aupress.ca/read/teaching-crowds/section/d826240c-e4fd-4e4b-bfee-f2cd54259850