Online learning shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon. When considering the theory and methods of how Didactic Education is being used today, I think about the use of recorded instructioanl videos, similar to the ones we are viewing! At any grade level or any discipline in higher education, educators have the ability to used a variety of tools which allows them to record a instructional video. 

These videos are reflective of a modern day didactic method as the teacher delivers the lecture and is still the subject matter expert. Traditionally, this would have been a teacher in a classroom lecturing to students in seats. Today, through instructional video recordings, instructors are seen and they can deliver the same lecture to students learning in any place. The instruction may still include a text book, reading, or assignments that may directly impact the learning. Students are still capable of listing to the same materials as the other students through the same medium. It can still be described as passive learning, and memorizing content. Educators can also assess through the use of quizzing options in the videos or through worksheets or actualy exams. Instructional videos would be highly approprate for moedern day didactic methodology. 

An area where didactic methods would not be appropriate would be in a simulation learning environment. Today, students have learning environments that are hands on where students are leading the learning and the learning is competency and skills based as opposed to just a change in knowledge. These learning spaces can be online through a virtual learning environment such as VMware or in a traditional classroom such as a makerspace. In the videos we viewed, there was an image displaying where the teacher was the center of didactic learning. Simulated learning would look similar to this image where the student is the center of learning, not the educator: 

Blooms Taxononmy remains a valuable visual for where didactic methods begin and how they can lead into a simulated learning environment: 

Blooms Taxonomy

As we move forward in these new methods of learning, the old methods still remain intact, it is the technology driving the change in which they are delivered. 

Refrences: 

Course Networking. “Student Centered Learning.” https://www.thecn.com/0010404.

Univeristy of Maryland Library Services. "Blooms Taxonomy: an introduction." Univeristy of Maryland Library Services. Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching (2015). July 31, 2017. http://www.easybib.com/guides/citation-guides/mla-8/cite-digital-image-mla-8/.