Digital Delights

"We might tend to struggle with the duality of many dimensions, facets of education and learning.  These include:

1. pedagogy – the instructivism (teaching as an emphasis) versus connectivism (learning – PLE/PLN as an emphasis, and learning as practice and reflection, teaching as demonstration and modelling (Stephen Downes), or flipped classroom versus peer-to-peer learning (peeragogy and heutagogy)
2. teaching style versus learning style
3. the face-to-face versus online (or blended learning)
4. the community of practice versus the networks of practice
5. the group (classroom) learning versus individual learners personalised learning, or social learning versus personalised and self-paced & organised learning
6. openness versus closeness, unity versus diversity
7. governance versus autonomy
8. education (provided by others) versus learning (do it yourself or independent learning)
9. prescriptive versus emergent curriculum
10. canonical versus emergent knowledge

These different “dualities” are indeed all interwoven with each others and could most likely be illustrated as evolving Yin and Yang cycle, with the social, cognitive, and teaching presence both evolving and significantly embedded in between each others during the education and learning process.  They are the yin and yang part of the MOOCs."