Let me suggest a purely hypothetical theorem. I suggest that learners
naturally gravitate toward learning experiences which are in phase with
them. I make this assertion based on Gagne's "condition of learning,"
defined as prior knowledge. Suppose a subject starts a learning
experience at the exact level of prior knowledge; that is a phase state
in which the learner has an equal chance for learning something new, or
loosing interest and walking away. As the state of prior knowledge
evolves, the learner stays with the learning experience. The learner is
in phase, learning, experiencing a "flow." What would we call this
dynamic state?

Farhad Saba, Ph. D.
Professor of Educational Technology
San Diego State University
CEO, Distance-Educator.com

TCRecord: Universities in Transition: The Promise and the Challenge of New Technologies Teaching is not just a delivery system - in pedagogy, form reshapes content.

Capstone Planning - Entry 7
This reminds me not only of the legal discussions we've been having about how the Internet is seeming to become its own unique medium, different from print or broadcast. m But it also striked home for my Capstone, where we are most concerned about the form and/or structure that our online courses will take. We aren't calling our to-be-developed courses, but instead they will be referred to as "spaces". We don't want to give the connation that taking or entering either the Electronic Portfolio space or thte Intergrating Technology space will be like the traditional lecture online. Rather we are attempting to structure the spaces to facilitate the notion of learning as a social experience via the development of community. this will be in addition to the creation of modules of content for the learner, rather than one long semester course.