Chapter 6: The Design of Learning Environments
I think Figure 6.1 is a great illustration summazing this chapter: the alignment of four perspectives: Learner-centered, knowledge-centered, assessment-centered, and community-centered. It is important to not only help students make connections to their previous knowledge and their current academic tasks but also to provide them with 1) well-organized knowledge that is accessible in appropriate contexts, 2) assessments that reflect learning goals, and 3)an environment that promotes a sense of community.

With that said, when designing an educational learning site should you incorporate assessments for your learners to evaluate themselves according to what they learn from your site? Secondly, in documenting learner characteristics, I would think that it is then that you look at design from a learner-centered perspective, the question is, is that when you also look at your site from a community-centered perspective? Shouldn't you be looking at a learner's community ALWAYS as you define the learner's characteristics? Lastly, when designing your site, when should you think about the knowledge-centered perspective? If this perspective means that there exists a need to help students become knowledgeable in ways that lead to understanding and subsequent transfer, then isn't that tied to the level of interactivity that you incorporate into your site? Isn't that tied to the way you actually design the site and the functionalities you use within it - the overall design principle you use to build your site?