Students Writing Their Own Textbook, A Successful Situational Learning Case Study

• In Event: Towards student independence
  In Roundtable Session: Towards student independence-D&D

Short Description

Culturally-situated learning is the creation of learning environments where theory is tied to practice, such as students authoring a textbook on instructional message design during their instructional design course. From this perspective, learning is enhanced when it is imbedded in an authentic culture of collective principles, values, objectives, and activities. This presentation illustrates a successful process where the affordances of Google Docs and Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing were used to create their book.

Author

• Presenter: Miguel Ramlatchan, Old Dominion University