Computer-mediated learning environments support more active learning by being more reflexive and ergative, for example being able to give peer feedback in Scholar. If you compare it to the old-school way of teaching which consisted of teachers setting a test and the end of a semester and giving you a grade, to having weekly peer-assessments and receiving feedback as you go, as well as being able to see your peers work and see the ideas they are developing and this in turn assisting your own learning. This is much more effective in helping you retain knowledge and notice the gaps that need to be focused on and. And this is what Cope refers to as “short-cycle feedback”, it allows students to get feedback faster than the old-school method which means the student is constantly reflecting and learning as they go.

Another example is ability to interact and learn alongside hundreds of other students. For example, the Kettle Moraine Middle School in Wisconsin. As Cope mentions, “…teachers working at one moment with one student, another moment with 10 students, another moment everybody's working together, but they're working together online.” This method enables constant interaction with hundreds of others and to interact with one another, to hear different opinions. It avoids Michel Foucault’s idea of the old-school classroom and individualised learning, whereby the students only hear the teacher’s opinion or the opinion of the author who wrote the book they are studying. Platforms like Scholar enable the students to learn socially and to express their own opinions by commenting on each other’s posts. This leads to active learning as they are actively participating during the class and not just being knowledge consumers like in didactic and mimetic pedagogy.

Individualized Learning - Michel Foucault