What is Learning Contract
Learning Contract is a term that describes a scenario where a student negotiates and agrees to a personalized learning plan with the support of his/her online instructor. It also accommodates a systemic plan for assessment completion and submission within a designed framework.
I personally took an online course with Coursera, in partnership with Harvard business school and I got to understand more what learning Contract was practically about. Before I got into the main course outline; I was required to fill out a form online stating the most convenient time schedule for my lessons within the course timeframe and with my time zone in view. I got motivated and inspired because my learning hours would fall within my most preferred hours.
That is my testimony about learning contract. Now let’s get a bigger picture of the benefits of learning contract to online learning.
• Motivates personalized learning
• It provides a progressive learning and teaching framework
• Provides extended and elaborate discussion session for student-students and students- instructors’ online conversation.
Motivates Personalized Learning
Learning online as opposed to classroom arrangement is never enough to keep the inspiration alive for some students; just a little more company will do. But contract learning introduces a systemic learning approach that keeps you in check and balances your moments of willingness to learn with that of your online instructor. This motivates you to learn alone from your physical space with a company of people from your online space.
It provides a progressive learning and teaching framework
Boxing an entire lesson plan within a time frame provides a progressive guide at each level of understanding. This makes the course outline a work in progress.
Provides extended and elaborate discussion sessions.
Online courses with learning contracts often follows a corresponding system that checks students’ learning outcome. In most cases, it initiates peer -to-peer ( student- to-student) interaction sessions to foster lesson comprehension and a mindful teaching outcome.
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