A bunch of technopsychos have been pondering about remote learning for quite some time and some of the most thought provoking, animated discussions have encompassed Instructive Vs Constructive learning. My good friend and a brilliant student, Ankur Mani has been working on arts and media interaction for about 2 years and has organized many experiments comprising of relative studies of Instructive and Constructive learning. I have observed a couple of his experiments, which involve providing a constructive workspace to children and I am impressed to say the least.
Enough said...what actually are Instructive and Constructive learning.
Instructive learning consists of conventional teaching methods, where knowledge flows from teacher to students through the channel of instructive abilities. This method bundles class structures, testing strategies and standard learning workspace.
Instructive learning has been adopted by almost all of the education systems and is approved by conventional wisdom.
Constructive learning is contingent upon one's exposure to learning environment. It constitutes shaping experiences into knowledge. For example, learning laws of motion by practically realizing them. One can often confuse constructive learning with lab experiments but labs compel one to follow the instructions to achieve a desired outcome and hence experiments are output driven instead of being knowledge driven.

I think constructive learning provides a better way to lay the foundation of cerebral development of children. Instead of remembering the sines and cosines won't it be better if students can study the physical applications of trigonometry and realize the use of it. I remember cramming through various subjects in my high school and getting bemused about the usability aspect. The teachers bother less about why and how than what.
Neo thinks that constructive learning by itself can not fulfill the demands of human development. He questions about timeliness and subjectivity of constructive learning. According to him, a suitable combination of constructive and instructive learning will better confirm to the needs.
But then, isn't this combination of instructive and constructive learning itself subjective? I might learn Geometry faster than Mr X, whereas Mr X might learn grammar faster than I.
I am eager to know what do you guys think.

Until next time...have fun and take care.