Pedagogy means all the strategies and techniques that can help students learn. For me, it brings back memories of how difficult online courses were at the very beginning of the epidemic. Learning became frustrating and unengaging due to the lack of relevant pedagogy and experience for both teachers and students. Looking back on my learning experience, I realized that project-based learning best helped me understand what I was learning more deeply. In contrast, teaching styles that rely solely on lectures and lack opportunities for interaction or application often alienated me from the learning material, and once I had an online course where the instructor would give a four-hour lecture and the learning frustrated me.

The networked pedagogy is a method of enhancing my learning experience, in which I am induced to socialize and interact, as well as inducing students to take the initiative to ask questions about what they don’t know. This type of learning is active and dynamic, with students choosing learning paths based on their interests and needs, as well as being exposed to a diversity of perspectives and experiences. The most intuitive example of this is in a learning group under the Networked Pedagogy, where students push each other to complete projects and share links to knowledge acquisition.

Constructivism is the theory I am most interested in and think suits me best. It is through building the right environment that students can learn real knowledge and relevant ideologies through interaction. In e-learning, students can be urged to find the knowledge needed to solve a problem by constructing exploratory quests in stages like a game, or they can be induced to think about the values and ideologies behind the problem through open-ended questions. The theory has led me to think more about the meaning behind problems in my future studies.

Teaching presence is one of the most fundamental aspects of teaching that students perceive, and when we look back at traditional teaching, both the seriousness of the classroom and the ringing of the bell can lead students to perceive the presence of the teacher, and thus focus their attention on learning. I believe the essential quality of a successful instructor is the ability to give feedback. After taking away many of the cues of traditional teaching, the instructor, as the actual author of the instruction, provides the students with immediate and adequate feedback, including comments on assignments and answers to questions. I have had lessons in the past where I was lost because the instructor was very slow in responding to emails, often taking over a week to respond.

The most important thing about learning in digital spaces is to stay active, whether it’s actively interacting with the community or actively asking questions of the teacher can be effective in aiding learning, but it’s also the biggest challenge because those habits and cues that are left over from years of learning, such as the bell for class or the teacher, are always missing from digital spaces. The benefit, on the other hand, is the ability to more easily and actively seek out the knowledge needed or the means to acquire it. Being proactive likewise ensures that I contribute to the community I belong to, and proactively interacting in the community and reminding assignments of their dates both ensure that the community continues to follow up on learning progress.