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Principles and Practices
Ten Principles and Practices
for Sustainable Learning, Transfer, and Impact
in Distance Learning Environments
  1. Opportunities for Praxis (Action - Reflection - Action)
  2. A safe, respectful environment, supportive of critical thinking and risk-taking
  3. Immediacy and relevancy
  4. A blend of a visual, auditory and kinesthetic elements
  5. Congruence among objectives, activities and outcomes
  6. Cognitive, affective and psychomotor activities
  7. Dialogue and collaborative problem solving among learners
  8. Thoughtful sequencing of learning tasks to include constructive feedback
  9. Authentic activities and electronic product production
  10. Learners as decision-makers in their own learning process

 

 

 

 

 

 

In addition to the principles and practices listed above, CI2 also emphasizes the following when conducting faculty/instructor training in the integration of technology into the learning process:

  • Exploration of a seven step sequential planning process that reduces trainer/teacher anxiety, while significantly improving the resulting instructional event
  • Development of a shared common language and understanding among collaborating trainers
  • Emphasis on learning as an active process as a replacement for passive listening
  • Opportunities to explore new methods for planning and conducting meetings
  • Effective strategies to engage faculty/teachers/trainers with technology innovation

Our educational model is characterized by:

  • Participation of the learners in determining what is to be learned
  • Ongoing dialogue between learner and instructor and among learners themselves
  • An emphasis on small group work to engage all learners
  • Participative feedback on results of programs
  • Respect for learners and teachers
  • A listening attitude on the part of teachers and resource people
  • Learners implementing what they are learning


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