ERIC Number: EJ1446679
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 21
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Constructivist Teaching in a Virtual Space
Aviva Dorfman
Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, v25 n1 Article 2 2024
Due to the pandemic, undergraduate course ECE 340: Constructivist Teaching with Young Children, moved to an online, asynchronous format. The in-person methods I used, group work, in-class activities, and discussion, could not be directly transposed online as might lecture and recitation. Toward the term's end students expressed appreciation for the degree of choice they had in assignments, examples of programs in text and video, and repeated opportunities to design centers and instruction. Some declared a greater sense of confidence as educators. The comments suggested that the shift into an asynchronous provision of the course had been effective. This study is an investigation of the robustness of this response and the influence of course design on students' acquisition of constructivist teaching approaches.
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Virtual Classrooms, Electronic Learning, Early Childhood Education, Undergraduate Study, Teacher Education Programs, Undergraduate Students, Asynchronous Communication, Online Courses, Pandemics, COVID-19, Media Adaptation, Group Activities, Class Activities, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Lecture Method, Student Attitudes, Student Centered Learning, Repetition
New Prairie Press, Kansas State University Libraries. 137 Hale Library, Manhattan, KS 66506. e-mail: nppress@ksu.edu; Web site: http://newprairiepress.org
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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