Social Work in the 21st Century: Training Units of Practice for Technique Implementation

摘要

I was an innovator in online education. The promises for pedagogical reform combined with opportunities for the democratization of knowledge were, in my estimation, the most astounding promises of the 21st century. I welcomed the opportunities to transform lecture-based classes delimited by time and space to ubiquitous multisensory experiences where learning moments were not fractured by the ringing of a bell or where teaching no longer depended on my ability to tell students what I wanted them to know. I yearned for an opportunity to show them, to let them experience information through all of their senses. I saw online education as a way to accomplish this, and I set about designing courses with graphic artists to use metaphor, symbols, colors, images, and multimedia presentations to allow students to have a deep experience of and with the information and through these experiences to create their own new meanings.