Digital Artefacts for Learner Engagement

(DiAL-e)

27th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning

What makes face-to-face mediation such a rich and effective instructional technique for the learner?

• Immediate feedback (in theory) to questions/problems

• Immediate instructions enabling dialogical learning • Social settings (with other human beings)

• Scaffolding by a more knowledgeable other (MKO) – Zone of Proximal Development

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Video Podcast on mobile

Video Podcast on mobile

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