Teaching Trends in Virtual Education: An Interpretative Approach

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Teaching Trends in Virtual Education: An Interpretative Approach
Victor F. Pando, Propósitos y Representaciones, 2019/03/05
An English version of this paper is available (21 page PDF) and I thoroughly enjoyed this wide-ranging criticism of connectivism. At the core of the argument is the contention that connectivism dehumanizes education. Victor Pando writes, "The impact of ICT deconstructs some expectations placed upon them for the improvement of teaching-learning processes. This trend has been found little useful: the objectives, the concept, methods, organization, components of such processes avoid the role of the learner as a builder of their own learning or result in spontaneous processes of knowledge apprehension under undefined criteria. More...