Avoiding Information Overload... Quality & Kindness
"By 2002, Eppler and Menjis were identifying five causes of information overload: -multiple sources of information -too much information -difficult-to-manage information -irrelevance or unimportance of information -lack of time to understand information." (Open University, 2020) I was reading this the other day and it really got me thinking about learning and teaching. I was thinking about myself as a teacher and how I've felt overloaded with information over the past 12 months and how much of this overloading makes teaching more difficult? Moreover, it got me thinking about whether or not we, as teachers have been guilty of overloading our students too? So by extension I started thinking about what constitutes quality in online learning? How can educators create a quality online learning experience without the need for overload? ( "Information Overload" by DeaPeaJay is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 ) I know t...