Post what you've learned about this topic and how you intend to apply it.
I've learned that, generally speaking, most of my educational/professional experiences have been "sage on the stage" based, though there has definitely been active learning incorporated. I see the benefit of both and believe a good mixture is still optimal with active learning being predominant. It's been somewhat challening to get out from behind the podium, which is what I'm most comfortable with because of my experiences, but flexibility is key. This is challening enough in a traditional in-person academic experience. Doing so on-line is taking it up a notch.
Since the on-line environment is podium free technically, this provides me an ample opportunity to involve students in active learning collaborative/cooperative environments. As we're still waiting to see platform capabilities I don't know exactly how (i.e. Blackboard, video/audio capability, grouping capability) yet.
