My eLearning framework

After much deliberating and discussion and theorising and the rest of it I finally came up with a draft that I can relate to and encompasses some of the elements required. My husband (thankfully) spoke about what they used at his work to move people along a continuum - an interdependency curve - and I felt this related well to Bloom revised taxonomy. I also borrowed heavily from Wendy's framework as I could easily understand it and felt it was readily accessible as a tool within which you could design  learning course work and refer and assess where students (or yourself) were at any one time, and also be used to plot/plan an event. I think I would add a second page to my own framework with further actions; a sort of work sheet where I could `fill in the boxes' when actually creating/designing a body of work/lesson plan.

The Learning engagement theory was a little more challenging and whilst getting the underlying principle that you need to engage students to motivate them to learn, applying that within a framework was difficult. I felt the relate, create and donate components of the theory fitted with the higher order learning of Blooms. The increase in knowledge (on the right hand side of the framework) does not quite sum up the overall learning that one does when engaging in any experiential activity as we grow and expand and develop etc but I thought the word `knowledge' might apply better than any other word I could think, of as it can be applied to all aspects of the framework. As we increase our knowledge in one area, we apply it, we share it and (if lucky) retain it and use it to build on other knowledge. I also think we move up and down the slide as we take on new things and have to start again in some ways and work our way up again to be able to create and donate.

It seems to me to also fit with `Maslow's hierarchy of needs - especially the last few categories  - and even as a guide to human behaviour in some ways in that as we evolve we move from the simpler concepts of knowing stuff to more complex systems in helping and assisting communities. I haven't  really explored this fully (as you can tell) but it seems to me that people like Salman Khan are at the top end of the scale donating what they know and have created to wider communities for the benefit of most.

http://www.businessballs.com/maslow.htm
http://www.khanacademy.org/