Joanne Tyrrell’s Updates

  • Update Two - Prosumers in Education

    The term prosumer was coined by Alvin Toffler. Toffler asserts in his book Third Wave that the lines between consumer and producer will blur, so that in fact the consumer will become in part a producer (“Perspectives…”). This was a novel concept in...More

  • Update One – Over the Shoulder Learning

    The online or elearning environment has, in my opinion, five areas it needs to address in order to give the support and feedback with proper immediacy that the in-class over the shoulder learning would. First, learning there is environment stress fo...More