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Principle 2 Old - Autocracy - While there has been a lot of discussion around the appropriate governance models to be used on #online #teaching environments, this is still an area plagued by too many variables for simple existing approaches such as #traditional #autocratic #teaching or even #democratic #teaching to work. Decision making and governance in online environments is not following these offline models. The most evident form of this divergence is with #wikis. The power for any person to make changes, in #collaboration with others, creates a totally different form of decision making. The content is not the perspective of a single user or group; neither is the content the result of a formal voting process. Rather changes, normally small in nature, are made and then either accepted (often indicated by no comments) or rejected by others in the group. I suggest that this new form of decision making and #control, apparent within #wikis, and within the #online learning environment's that are allowed to develop naturally, is more of a #.
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Principle 2 New - Homeocracy - Unlike both an autocracy and a democracy that reflect a more mechanistic control and structure, #homeocracy draws on the organic metaphor of #homeostasis that reflects a gradual evolutionary change. “#Homeostasis is the tendency towards a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements” (Oxford, n.d.). As such the changes attempt to take into account the tensions between the “interdependent elements” which in this case are the #actants. #Homeostasis is also the “tendency of an organism or a cell to regulate its internal conditions, usually by a system of feedback controls” (Oxford, n.d.). This homeocratic method of control and decision making causes the environment to change, in most cases, through small incremental adjustments that are tested and if accepted, inculcated into the new space.
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