Wednesday, February 17, 2010
AST/ Adaptive Structuration/ Margith Strand
The discoveries from the work above (completed Knowledge Area) will support my Dissertation work comprised of information in the following areas: Adaptive Structuration Theory, Social Network Theory, and their relevancy as integrated models in Distance Education. Below are some of my ideas as formulated for the purpose of specifying the ideas MAbehind the generation of the Dissertation; in that the key principles of discovery are going to be elucidated as a process of completion of the Knowledge Area. The informational analysis performed as a part of the completion of this KA will be constructiveMA in the Dissertation support context within the realm of Distance Education.
Social Network theory's nodes and the diagrammatic representation can be used to model the Distance Education format of the infrastructure and the deliverable pathways which are integral to the functioning of the teaching and learning patterns. In my mind, the Social Network should be representative of an integral methodology of the necessary functioningMA of the Social Work world as well as any other social network relevant world.
Social Network can be integrated with the Structuration or the Adaptive Structuration Theory in that the physical representation is a modelling of the characteristics and the needed patterning of the delivarables of the mechanism of the Distance Education world; not only the infrastructure of the Teaching and Learning modelling of the interactions between the students and the Instructors in the intricacies, but the network modelling of the Distance Education world in that the interactions between the cognitive and methodological patterning which occurs in the construction of the teaching from the Instructors can be shown as a part of the Social Network diagramming.
The Abstract and Concrete deliverables in the modelling of the Teaching and Learning methodologies have been discussed in my Blog (www.margithstrand.blogspot.com) deliverables and I am going to apply some MA of these concepts into the Social Network and Adaptive Structuration Theoretical approach in my Dissertation; with support basis from the theories of Reductionism and Social Atomism.
Adaptive Structuration involves the basics of Structuration Theory with the addition of the technological constraints and boundaries which are inherent in the presence of non-cognitive techniques. The concepts and theoretical consideration of Adaptive Structuration Theory will be analyzed within the context of the key principles as mentioned in the set of interrogatives shown above (listed in the Depth section).
I believe that the Distance Education world is theory-based and the ground level classroom instructions are interaction based on the cognitive level of visual and physical interaction. The theory-based approach in the Distance Education world is one of alignment with the recognition and assimilation of concepts and application, utilization of the appropriate theories in that the methodological format which is used in the Distance Learning classroom is one that captures the student's attention to the point of allowing the student to enhance her or his learning format, which is a personal method.
The basic format of my Dissertation: Theory (Structuration and Adaptive Structuration Theories), Utilization of theory (Descriptive and Compartive analysis of Distance Teaching and Learning vs. Ground Capacitance Levels), Application with data analytical methods from Course Structure comparision and information derived from course/class data; Methodological AnalysisMA (establishment of nodal format and activity); Group Theoretical (Educational) comparisons of the Distance Educational and Ground Level format; Layering of Activity Coefficients established/derived from the Social Network Nodal Information;
The work from the Knowledge Area will support my quest of the Dissertation in that the mobile learning perspective can be integrated into the informational analysis work of the final report of the academic process at the University. In that the context of mobility in information relates to the method of presentation and assimilation as evolved through the generation of the cognitive ability of the Instructor and not so much as that of the technology. The principlesMA and discourse topics as discussed in this Knowledge Area Contract are intended for the purpose of elucidating the theoretical, topical items in the applications of the teaching and learning process and fields of informational presentation. Mobile learning is an area which involves usability and the logistical information garnered from the completion of this Knowledge Area should generate the theoretical background for the Dissertation.
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