Frameworks

Frameworks For Learning Design! Engagement Theory

The Framework i have chosen to review and suits the needs of the digital learning design in this modern world is the Engagement theory. I believe as this is a more open learning theory mostly based on group work to the others based on individuals. Students have the potential to learn more and be actively involved with one another. Through doing assessments or class tasks the engagement theory gets more students involved through the process of creating, problem solving,reasoning, decision making, evaluation and team work through motivation of the project at hand which all students feel encouraged to participate and work together.


Principles of the engagement theory are:

Relate: emphasizes on team effort through communcation/planning and social skills. Collaboration between students of information research, group project meetings through facilating /motivating learning.

Create: Empasizes of creating a purposeful activity, defining the project, effort of their application to the project. Plus conducting their own project as it is more appealing to them and they have more control of it instead of their teacher.

Donate: value of making a contribution to the project and learning, has a outside interest attached to the project and focus on a subject, authentic learning context of the project increases student motivation and satisfaction.

This theory has to be taught by teachers to facilate students in being in engaged with one another- they can teach it through mini tasks of collaboration of pairing students up or in small groups in class to solve a problem or work as a team in a sporting match plus falicating email between students is a great way of working on engagement.Collarboration still has to be taught to students over time to gain confidence of working together plus leadership,time managment, scheduling are also important parts of this theory.

Moving on from collaboration of learning with one another is project oriented learning. Project oriented learning is through mini tasks handed to students by their teachers to research a certain topic of interest and report their findings back to the class. Students can take on leadership, main researcher or even editor of the report to facilate the group through different roles of team members. Teachers also recommend that your facilate your learning with different students each time you do a project to further enhance your learning,social life and hear different points of view. To this is where authentic focus comes in for the projects to be completed in an academic context with a realistic focus attached to them. Authentic focus comes in the form of a outside realistic influence of group projects in gaining further knowledge,expectations and facilate learning-Realistic influences include: Universities,Work Experience, Part Time Jobs or sporting teams of examples of focus of work colleagues and team projects.

To sumerise the engagement theory that it is very different from the other learning theories as this one focuses more on group collaboration of students working together to facilate their learning in groups or in paris to achieve a project outcome while learning leadership,group roles , social & knowledge differences. Instead of being individuals, but it is still up to the individual to participate in the project and put themselves forward to learn and collaborate through this theory.

As for one of my teaching subjects being HPE, it is very important to facilitate my students through working on tasks together through different skills / drills of the sports i teach. As this develops team work / social intereaction between students as they work together to compete the skill or drill of that particular sport by inspiring and problem solving together to complete the task at hand. Example: Basketball- Bounce passing to one another while moving up the court and timing their run into the hoop while problem solving of who is closest to the hoop to score.