| Online instructional design provides opportunities for rich learning resources that go far beyond the scope of the traditional classroom lecture. The powers of these new electronic learning resources are often missed when this student-centered learning model is abandoned for the more conventional concept of "lectures at a distance".
Since the time of Socrates we have understood that interactive dialogue provides a superior learning environment in contrast to passive, instructor-centered transmission of information. The new interactive digital media and the electronic communication tools available to us today, provide an unparalleled creative opportunity for replicating the engaged, student-centered, multi-sensory structure of the classic pedagogical dialogue. |
