Mine...oh...Mine! Margith Strand/ Higher Educationist

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 functioning of the Social Work world as well as any other social network relevant world.

Margith A. Strand

Ideas on Dissertation/ January 10, 2010

Adaptive Structuration Theory
Structuration Theory
Social Network Theory
Cognitive Theoretical Approach
Symbolic Interactionism
Functionalism
Distance Education
Distance Learning
Distance Teaching
Ground Teaching
Ground Teaching Capacitance

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 deliverables and I am going to apply some of these concepts into the Social Network and Adaptive Structuration Theoretical approach of my DIssertation.

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.

In my Dissertation, I wish to roughly approach the limitations and extensions of the Distance Educational world compared to that of the traditional Higher Educational platform, which is the ground approach of the classroom instruction. These works will be done with the theoretical approach in that the theories which are appropriate for the descriptive background and integration of the teaching and learning methodologies with the comparative analysis of the Distance Education context.

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 Analysis (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;