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Facilitating online learning for authentic real-life challenges in a MakerSpace environment
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2021.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/80008 Facilitating online learning for authentic real-life challenges in a MakerSpace environment Slabbert, Johannes A. jacojoubertjnr@gmail.com Joubert, Jacobus Petrus Facilitating Learning online learning MakerSpace Computer Supported Collobarative Learning authentic learning Zone of Proximal Development highest quality of learning Microsoft Teams UCTD Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-08 Education theses SDG-09 Education theses SDG-10 Education theses SDG-17 Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2021. In an increasingly digitised world, the pedagogy of education is at risk of being dictated by technological advancement. As fragments of teaching practice left over from previous curricula are adapted and amalgamated into new curricula, the educational landscape becomes a sea of learning terminologies used interchangeably. In many cases these terminologies are then disconnected from an underlying understanding of what learning is and how the best possible form and quality of learning can be brought about. Two recent technological advancements in the field of education is Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) and the MakerSpace movement. However, these fields need to be engaged with as avenues of investigation in the pursuit of the highest possible learning quality outcome required by a world that is super-complex. Through comprehensive literature research, the researcher first presented an in-depth argument detailing what learning is, what the highest quality of learning is and how this learning quality can be measured. The literature revealed a particular professional practice of “facilitating lifelong authentic learning” of which the sole purpose is achieving exactly that. In this mixed method research project, an attempt was made to re-connect the technological advancement of online learning with the theoretical framework of the learning process as laid down by Vygotsky, particularly through the Zone of Proximal Development. Within the context of a MakerSpace subject, the researcher attempted to determine how the identified practice of facilitating lifelong authentic learning would ensure the increase in the quality of learning in online groups where MakerSpace learners were required to resolve a real-life challenge. An experiment then followed where a professional facilitator of learning was present in the experimental groups, while the control groups attempted to resolve the challenge un-facilitated. A comparison of the analysis of chat transcriptions indicated that on average the quality of learning was higher in facilitated groups. Interview data collected after the experiment shed light on this finding and suggested that the quality of learning in an online group increases when a facilitator of learning increases the level of difficulty of the real-life challenge as perceived by the group’s dominant participant (the person who contributes the most to the group dialogue). This not only indicated the value of Facilitating Learning in an online learning evnvironment, but also highlighted its necessity in terms of improving the quality of the learning. mi2026 Humanities Education PhD Unrestricted SDG-04: Quality education SDG-08: Decent work and economic growth SDG-09: Industry, innovation and infrastructure SDG-10: Reduced inequalities SDG-17: Partnerships for the goals 2021-05-24T08:01:34Z 2021-05-24T08:01:34Z 2021-09-20 2021-05-21 Thesis * S2021 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80008 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Facilitating Learning online learning MakerSpace Computer Supported Collobarative Learning authentic learning Zone of Proximal Development highest quality of learning Microsoft Teams UCTD Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-08 Education theses SDG-09 Education theses SDG-10 Education theses SDG-17 Facilitating online learning for authentic real-life challenges in a MakerSpace environment |
| title | Facilitating online learning for authentic real-life challenges in a MakerSpace environment |
| title_full | Facilitating online learning for authentic real-life challenges in a MakerSpace environment |
| title_fullStr | Facilitating online learning for authentic real-life challenges in a MakerSpace environment |
| title_full_unstemmed | Facilitating online learning for authentic real-life challenges in a MakerSpace environment |
| title_short | Facilitating online learning for authentic real-life challenges in a MakerSpace environment |
| title_sort | facilitating online learning for authentic real life challenges in a makerspace environment |
| topic | Facilitating Learning online learning MakerSpace Computer Supported Collobarative Learning authentic learning Zone of Proximal Development highest quality of learning Microsoft Teams UCTD Education theses SDG-04 Education theses SDG-08 Education theses SDG-09 Education theses SDG-10 Education theses SDG-17 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80008 |