The Promise of Online Learning: A Learner and Educator Perspective
A new podcast produced and published by Ohio State’s Center on Education and Training for Employment, CETE Works Podcast, focuses on a future where all learners reach their highest potential. The podcast explores current topics impacting educational and workforce transformation. Special thanks to Fara Allen, the host of the CETE Works Podcast.
In this episode, I discuss the promise of online learning and teaching of learning anywhere, anytime, and anything … and the excitement of this promise. I relate happiness to learners’ satisfaction and share my experiences of being an online teacher, student, and designer. In this context, I use Lyubomirsky’s (2007, p. 32*) definition of happiness as “the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one’s life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.”
Successful learning
… is when the teacher is happy being a teacher teaching online, and the student is happy being a student learning online.
Credits: @jacquiemunguiaThe podcast episode ends with a reflection on how learning organizations, like Ohio State’s Center on Education and Training for Employment, have responded to the pandemic and how professionals are redefining their priorities. “If we’re learning something from this pandemic, it’s that we have a very clear perspective that life is short, and we don’t want to waste our time doing things that we don’t love. If you love your job, you have that fulfillment that comes from doing a good job. If you don’t, please don’t waste your time, just look for a passion, look for another job, because that feeling of doing your job is worthwhile to pursue…”
*Lyubomirsky, S. (2007). The how of happiness: A scientific approach to getting the life you want. Penguin Press.