transactional distance in flipped learning environments
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Transactional distance in flipped learning environments
Tryggvi ThayerUniversity of Iceland
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Flipped Learning
• Remove direct instruction from group environment to personal environment.– Create opportunities to engage learners in
creative and productive learning in group environment.
– Create opportunities to cater to individual learners’ needs.
Transactional Distance• Educational and psychological distance
between the educator and the learner. (Michael G. Moore)– Transaction: Interaction between behavior of
individuals and their environment in certain situations. (John Dewey)
– Distance: Conceptual, physical and psychological (might we add ‘social’?) space that needs to be crossed to get messages from instructor to learner.
See also:- Moore, M.G. (2007). The Theory of Transactional Distance. In M.G.Moore (Ed.) (2007) The Handbook of distance education. Second Edition. pp. 89–108.- Dewey, J. & Bentley, A. F. (1960). Knowing and the known. Boston: Beacon Press.
What happens with transactional distance in flipped learning?
• Student-learner interaction is partially dematerialized and depersonalized.– Initial transactional distance increases due to lack
of personal interaction.• An instructor on video cannot be questioned.• An instructor on video does not experience learners’
reactions to instruction.• Learner cannot reach out to instructor on video.
Transactional distance increases
What to do?
• We can effectively address transactional distance if we are aware of it:– Establish relationship with learners before
flipping.– Recognize learners’ individuality.– Foster community of learners.– Instructor as an active member of the community.