Instructional design: from “packaging” to “scaffolding” - Jane Hart, Learning in the Social Workplace

A good example of the difference between instructional packaging and instructional scaffolding was provided recently by Debbie Morrison in her post A tale of two of MOOCs: divided by pedagogy. In a very useful table (reproduced below) she compares the approaches taken by the (very popular, connectivist) e-Learning and Digital Cultures MOOC with the (aborted, instructivist) Fundamentals of Online Education MOOC. (The first is a great example of instructional scaffolding.) http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/2013/03/06/instructional-design-packaging-to-scaffolding/