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Relational Basis of Learning 
 How to Make Your Course Address the Relational Basis of Learning
- Know the members of your learning community.
- Explain ways to stay connected.
- Articulate goals and expectations.
- Quotes on Teacher Talk [pdf]
- Quotes on Student Talk [pdf]
- Principles
- Dialogue is the heart of active learning.
- Dialogue makes learning, unlearning & relearning possible.
- Dialogue sets ideas in motion to be refined, extended, interpreted, and ultimately
applied in new settings.
- Dialogue is the way we think our way into a topic.
- During dialogue problems dis-solve.
- Strategies (These strategies are written for face to face. Adapt them to your delivery
method. For examples, see the instructions for meeting this standard with WebCT.)
- At the beginning of your course, have people commit to their level of involvement in the
course or explain your expectations for student's level of involvement.
- Design questions that stimulate higher levels of interaction and thinking.
- Buddy up the students and have them mail each other regularly so that they have support
in the class and feel connected to someone and not alone in the class.
- See other cooperative/active learning strategies under stimulating learning experiences.
Additional Readings
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