LEADER 02626nam 2200361 450 001 9910629592603321 005 20230516104413.0 035 $a(CKB)5720000000079755 035 $a(NjHacI)995720000000079755 035 $a(EXLCZ)995720000000079755 100 $a20230516d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSelf-Directed Learning in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic $eResearch on the affordances of online virtual excursions /$fJosef De Beer [and three others] 210 1$aCape Town, South Africa :$cAOSIS,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (380 pages) 225 1 $aNWU Self-Directed Learning Series 311 $a1-77634-231-3 330 $aThe COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted teaching and learning at higher education institutions (HEIs), and this book disseminates research findings on a series of cross-campus online initiatives of the North-West University (NWU) to ensure high-quality self-directed learning, whilst simultaneously attending to the need for inclusion and diversity in this challenging context. The golden thread running through the 13 chapters is how this HEI responded to the pandemic in a creative way through its investment in online virtual student excursions, based on problem-based, cooperative learning and gamification principles to support self-directed learning. Whereas virtual excursions usually refer to learning opportunities where 'a museum, author, park or monument is brought to the student' (Hehr 2014:1), the virtual excursion in our context is an activity system (Engestro?m 1987) where students' learning is scaffolded across the zone of proximal development (Vygotsky 1978) and where their 'social and pedagogical boundaries are stretched or expanded' (De Beer & Henning 2011:204). Students engage as Homo ludens, the playing human (Huizinga 1955), in learning activities embedded in an ill-structured problem, and through reflective activities, they are encouraged to reflect on their own nai?ve understandings or biases. This 'tension', or in Veresov (2007) parlance, 'dramatical collisions', provides a fertile learning space for self-directed learning. 410 0$aNWU Self-Directed Learning Series. 606 $aEducation and state 615 0$aEducation and state. 676 $a379 700 $aBeer$b Josef De$01346915 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910629592603321 996 $aSelf-Directed Learning in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic$93363847 997 $aUNINA