A lot of this is why we have Neutral Zones and Assignment Banks in pathways learning. I remember there was some arguing that we weren’t “doing scaffolding right” or that it “wasn’t fair to just give them a way to do the assignment when I was able to think of it on my own” and all of that from the more connectivist leaning students in the course. Of course, some of that was our fault because we originally had the goal of moving all learners into a connectivist-type of agency. But we quickly saw this was not working for all learners, and that even just having the instructivist pathway was not enough to help all of those that struggled with connectivism. I’m not sure we designed those spaces the best way they could have, but so often you are dealing with a system that shouldn’t be forcing students with no ocean to learn to fish in the first place. When you can’t change the system right away to realize that, you have to provide the other ways for some learners. The ocean metaphor would probably help learners understand their own needs, as well as explain to other students why the options they personally don’t like have to exist in the first place.

I captured some of the issues in this blog post back in the day: https://www.edugeekjournal.com/2015/12/28/every-choice-is-awesome-every-path-is-cool-when-youre-in-humanmooc/