One of the greatest outcomes of instructional technology integration is how the learner can acquire and demonstrate new knowledge. Technology has eliminated the traditional “one-way street” approach to learning, where the learner passively obtains information from a lecture, demonstration, or presentation.Instructional technologies have replaced the learning territory’s one-way streets with multi-lane, multi-directional, instructional highways. This creates true interactivity among learners, instructors, and resources.
Instructional technologies have created more “points of interest” to visit and interact with throughout the learning territory. Interactivity, collaboration, and networking are the new cornerstones in adult learning, made possible by instructional technologies.
Learners have a wider array of tools and locations from which to peruse and use information and learning resources:
- Websites
- Simulations and Gaming
- E-learning and CBT
- Podcasts
- Wikis
- Blogs
- Networking sites
- Forums
- Virtual Classrooms
- Remote Meetings
- Virtual Spaces
These learning resources, like the learning territory, will continue to expand outward, substantially increasing what is available to the learner.
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