Constructivist emotionally-oriented model
Definition
- The Constructivist emotionally-oriented model (CEO) is a "model of web-based learning which emphasizes safety, challenge, and new thinking, and offers several strategies to enhance the emotional experience of learners."
- The CEO instructional design model of web-based education emphasizes safety, challenge and new thinking and includes several strategies to enhance the emotional experience of learners.
- Emotions have been neglected in education and online education, in favor of a heavy emphasis on cognition and rationality. (MacFadden, 2005: Abstract).
See also: Astleitner's FEASP model and the emotion article.
The Model
This table is copyright by Robert MacFadden 2003, reproduced here with permission' and retrieved 19:14, 1 June 2006 (MEST) from Past & Present Workshops.
| Stage | Purpose | Activity | Potential Feelings of Learners |
Safety |
To create a safe learning environment that facilitates risk taking and examining ones ways of thinking |
Construct rules to foster free communication and ensure safety. Monitoring of communication to ensure compliance and safety |
Safety, support & acceptance |
Challenge |
To provide the opportunity for participants to critically examine their knowledge and world views |
Introduce exercises and processes that allow participants to step outside their existing ways of thinking |
Disequilibrium, confusion, anxiety, frustration in a context of safety support & acceptance |
| New thinking |
To create opportunities for engaging with new knowledge and gaining new ways of viewing the world |
Introduce alternative knowledge and ways of viewing the world |
"Ah ha!" moments leading to a new equilibrium, satisfaction, exhilaration |
Links
- Thinking and Feeling: Building a Constructivist, Emotionally-Oriented Model for Online Education
- Robert MAcFadden's Home page
References
- MacFadden, R.J. Dumbrill, G., Maiter, S. (2000). Web-based education in a graduate faculty of Social Work: Crossing the new frontier. New Technology in the Human Services. Vol. 13, No.2.
- MacFadden, R. J. (2005). Souls on Ice: Incorporating emotion in web-based education. In R. J. MacFadden, B. Moore, M. Herie, & D. Schoech, (Eds.), Web-based education in the human services: Models, methods, and best practices. (pp. 79-98). NY, London, Victoria: The Haworth Press.
- MacFadden, R. J., Maiter, S., & Dumbrill, G. D. (2002). High tech and high touch: the human face of online education. Journal of Technology in Human Services, 20(3/4), 238-300.
- MacFadden, R.J., Herie, M., Maiter, S., Dumbrill, G. (2005b). Achieving high touch in high tech: A constructivist, emotionally-oriented model of web-based instruction. Journal of Teaching in Social Work 25 (1/2) 21-44. DOI 10.1300/J067v25n01_02 , ISSN 0884-1233
- MacFadden, R.J., Herie, M., Maiter, S., Dumbrill, G. (2005c). Achieving high touch in high tech: A constructivist, emotionally-oriented model of web-based instruction. In Beaulaurier, R., Haffey, M. Technology in Social Work Education, New York: Haworth Press (same as above)