Dear Commons Community,

Last fall, the Online Learning journal published an article I had written entitled, Theories and Frameworks for Online Education: Seeking an Integrated Model.  Yesterday I was notified it was judged to be one of the top ten articles for the publication for 2017.  I was also notified that it was the article with the second most downloads for the year.  The article examines theoretical frameworks and models that focus on the pedagogical aspects of online education. After a review of learning theory as applied to online education, I propose an integrated Multimodal Model for Online Education  based on pedagogical purpose. The model attempts to integrate the work of several major theorists and model builders such as Terry Anderson, Randy Garrison, George Siemens, Michael Moore and others. If you are at all interested in online education theory, check out  Picciano, A. G. (2017). Theories and frameworks for online education: Seeking an integrated model. Online Learning, 21(3), 166-190. doi: 10.24059/olj.v21i3.1225.  It is available for free download.

Tony