James G. R. Cronin

PandemicPedagogy #1 engages with current challenges of migrating courses online for re-opening of higher education in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. A common issue for educators migrating content online is a concern that the technology will  overtake  the pedagogy. This post addresses ways educators can seek a balance between technology and pedagogy. Pedagogy applied to technology conditions new ways for educators to engage with learning design. Educators now become facilitators of learning performances and curators of learning enactments.  Some practical pedagogical action steps:  1.  Revisit learning outcomes  of your module/s to ask the basic question: what do my students need to "know" in order to demonstrate their performance of understanding?  I will draw upon the decoding the disciplines f ramework to decode the learning enactments in the webinar below at #4 .  Most instructors notice places in their courses where students find it difficult to learn. The