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TECLTM and Online Learning Design
- You are a content expert.
- You know there are learners keen to know more about your subject matter and you may even have taught this material in classrooms or online.
- Committing to design, prepare and deliver your online course for the best student experience is exciting and here at Kadenze we want to help you do this smoothly and efficiently.
- Our priority is to address the key aspects of course design while not making the process unnecessarily complicated.
As learners acquire skills, they need to see their skills to be visible to them
Learning is deepened when students can match clear expectations of performance with their own achievements. Scaffolding and tracking such achievements need to be an organic part of all learning pathways. Case studies and simulations of the ‘real world’ enable rich application of situated learning.
Learning is not a 'one size fits all' process
The predominant learning design for online environments addresses content which has clear correct or incorrect answers. Typically, an explanation of a concept or skill is set out and
then followed by a quiz which can be definitively marked right or wrong. Learning this kind
of content is highly effective online. We specialize in enabling learners to effectively analyze and interpret procedural knowledge.
TECHNOLOGY ENABLED CREATIVE LEARNING SM
( TECLTM )
Learning is made more powerful through interactivity and engagement
Learners can effectively acquire procedural knowledge in an online environment provided they are able to share and critique their actions and deliberations. In our case we have prioritized and pioneered field-defining forums and galleries (for sharing non-text artefacts such as images and videos) enabling individual and team-based reflection.
About Kadenze, Inc.
As the creator of TECL, Kadenze, Inc. is your partner in online learning for the creative arts, design and creative technologies. We welcome inquiries from prospective partners and content experts who are interested in collaborating with the kadenze.com platform to publish new online courses in relevant creative arts, design and technology disciplines or in interdisciplinary fields across the sciences, technology, engineering, arts and management (STEAM).
To register your interest in publishing new courses with kadenze.com, please contact us at communication@kadenze.com
THE 8 PRINCIPLES OF Kadenze's TECLTM
CREATE: Making things, early in a course and often.
TELL STORIES: Building your learning in and through short and long narratives
SIMULATE: Using "make believe", realistic simulation and branching scenarios for analysis
OBSERVE: Repeatedly, over time and for depth
LET MEANING EMERGE: Let curiosity lead. Withhold answers
LET MEANING COME TOGETHER: Ensure coherence by synthesizing what has been tried, observed, and considered.
REFLECT: To gain deeper and fresh perspectives to share
MASTER: Practice skills through creative exercises and presentations.
From the very beginning, online learning design has principally focused on developing analytical and linear cognitive capabilities.
As we are told repeatedly, these capabilities are essential for learners to hold down a successful job and build a powerful economy. Overwhelmingly learning design has engendered the cognitive operations of mind most commonly found in Mathematics, Chemistry, Language, Engineering and Business education.
This approach is underpinned by cognitive load theory which holds that for online instruction to be effective, care must be taken not to overload the mind’s capacity for processing information. Consequently, designers become concerned with extraneous load, working memory, redundancy and concerns about temporal and spatial split attention. All to ensure that students never become cognitively overloaded.
TECL and arts-led learning frameworks encourage learners to stay with all their senses (not only their cognition). We acknowledge that many creative arts and design experiences are deliberately designed to stretch the limits of cognition; that not all cognitive overload is necessarily negative. In such cases cognitive overload does not result in a loss of meaning or intelligibility. Indeed, it can be understood as cognition in the making, where the very fabric of cognitive life is renewed as it struggles to make sense of experience.
Arts educators see productive possibilities for learning in the overload, not simply as events which inhibit and confuse.
TECL expands the possibilities for online learning design. It is not that other learning design models are incorrect, most are certainly necessary, but alone they are not sufficient. TECL amplifies the experiential and stirs the imagination to engage in challenges of interpretation and judgement where understanding is not simply the mastery of technical skills and factual accuracy.
It is a learning design applicable to all disciplines, but spawned by educators from music, dance, drama, film and media, the visual arts, design and the creative application of technology and computing power.
TECL takes an alternative approach; preferring to draw on arts-led learning theory and how that might lead learning design for virtual spaces.
Online learning shaped by arts-led learning theories
Online learning informed by the experiential
Designing a course for Online using TECL TM
Kadenze, Inc. (“Kadenze”) is the global leader for online learning in the creative arts and design and in the use of creative technologies for creative education. With nearly 150 courses and three thousand hours of content the Kadenze approach is known as Technology Enabled Creative LearningSM (TECL).
All kadenze.com courses are built on Kannu, our proprietary Learning Management System (LMS), designed to create learning pathways which are highly interactive, media-rich and engrossing. Kadenze has patiently prioritized, pioneered and patented several field-defining features for Kannu, meaning we are best able to meet the complex interactions aesthetic learning demands. Students learn through course galleries and forums which are directly linked to student assignments and engagement, a built-in portfolio to showcase learning and evidence achievement for digital badges and certificates, and a user centered design resulting in best-in-class user experience.
TECL is an important differentiator provided free of charge to all clients with their Kannu subscription.
Kadenze’s TECL framework has been developed and tested in practice by creative educators from many countries.