My four areas I am focusing on in my Literature Review include Adult learners and Andragogy, New Media in Online Education, Social Presence in Media and Identifying Remedial Math learning needs.
Understanding adult learners and andragogy is an important component, because the failure to incorporate these considerations into the instructional design of online intervention programs will not be as effective as they otherwise could be. Many are often written from a secondary-educational perspective as opposed to targeting older adults whose needs are not identical with this age group.
New Media in Online Learning is significant because it it important to consider all of the new technology that currently exists and allow us to compare between the different qualities of different media formats, but also to consider improving media formats for current intervention programs that currently exist.
Social Presence in Media is another important consideration, as technology provides intervention that was once only available from other people. Yet people as instrctors and tutors remain a critical component for providing intervention - what is important to consider is how can people best target their availability and what forms of communication (both synchronous and asynchronous) best facilitate it.
Better understand remedial math learning needs is critical in order to design instructional technology effectively as well as using humans in the instructional process to their optimal potential. Also, by understanding the learning needs of community college students, special consideration should be given to the type of learning challenges they face that are unique to this setting.
At this point, I believe that the subjects being reviewed make sense and are relevant to evealuating one of our current online math instructional technology programs, as these areas compose the areas of opportunity and improvement that are critical for deciding if our program is effective or ineffective, what components contribute to its success or shortcomings, and to determine if other programs exist that may better target our studetns' learning needs.
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I don't know much about math programs online but I know they are out there. I have used some of the grammar tools and games that are on line are very good. Our adult EL classes also use grammar programs for part of their nightly classes. So programs are there to help the adult learners. Maybe, you can find some programs that teach them history while they're learning math. Well, I can dream can't I?
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