Reflective Learning by Stephen Hardy

"Research indicates that critically reflective learning provides students with an opportunity to evaluate concepts learned and apply them to their experiences, contemplating its affect on future learning." states Kelly Burning in an article on here online journal (http://www.itdl.org/Journal/May_05/article03.htm). In this article Kelly deals with how online teaching that is reflective can fuel learning. The elements that need to be involved are student interaction and feedback. Kelly teaches how to apply reflective teaching to a real online environment. Some of the key things to create and apply were to provide general knowledge, usability and functionality, developing a learning community, and to incorporate learning outcomes. One of the challenges she discussed in the article was that in an online environment students lack face to face communication. The solution she provided was, Since students in the online platform work independently through the computer technology medium, the instructor needed to create a way to promote interaction among students similar to group learning in the face-to face course. The instructor also needed to create critical thinking exercises in which course concepts were reinforced but that students could also relate to." This article seemed to be a great introduction to, and a tool for, creating reflective teaching and learning in an online environment.

This article can be found at http://www.itdl.org/Journal/May_05/article03.htm