COHESIVE OPEN

EDUCATIONAL

LEARNING SYSTEM

Learning with Individualized Information NOW!

All information about COELS

is presented in a

comprehensive manner on

the COELS Google Site

Informative Google Site

COELS

Cohesive Open Educational Learning System (COELS) is a set of strategies, resources and tools for educators, learners and researchers to collaborate and share their experiences and best practices for using emerging technologies to enhance teaching and learning

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COELS is an approach to …

• Thinking about possibilities for

teaching, learning and research in

terms of a wide-angle view that

includes current technologies and

those just over the horizon

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COELS provides …

Conceptual umbrella for mental framework that supports world view of how philosophies, technologies, resources and knowledge can be shared in an open learning ecosystem at global scale

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COELS Team & Community …

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• Help educators, learners and researchers to see the big picture of how pedagogies, learning goals, research discoveries and technologies can connect and work together in a holistic system

• Facilitate use of COELS components & aspects

• Help providers and other partners see the potential and benefits of adopting COELS approach

COELS supports learners …

• To receive & generate information

• Just-in-time, accurate, relevant

• Automatically delivered

• Via any mobile device

• Leading to learning, certification, mentoring and internships

• Open: free, shared & visible

• Localized for culture & language

• Developed & applied with ecosystemic sensitivity in a sustainable manner

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History of COELS

Video available at https://sites.google.com/site/dnlecoels/history-

of-coels

COELS: in a nutshell

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Mindmap Mindmap showing aspects of COELS

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How is COELS original?

• COELS builds on existing

technologies and learning theories

to develop comprehensive

sustainable

learning/teaching/researching

system for diverse people living

throughout the world

• No other existing system is as all-

inclusive and far-reaching

• Localization, which is a distinct

feature of COELS on the horizon, is

not currently functional in any

ubiquitous system

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System function and features

• COELS will be delivered to

computers & mobile devices

using existing internet

connections

• Information will be delivered by

several providers

• Google (sites, blogger, docs,

images, +, YouTube)

• Open Learning Registry, LRMI

• Hangouts on air (e.g. TED talks)

• eTextbooks, interactive free apps

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What parts already exist?

• Analytics generated in

MOOCs track learners over

time

• Individualized scaffolding and

support, both online and in-

person learning

• Networking opportunities and

individualized interactions,

• Key artifacts published in

ePortfolios by learners &

teachers

• Access to quality open source

materials

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Example of Analytics in

Action:Khan Academy • Khan Academy uses analytics to

individualize learning

• Instant stats

• Knowledge maps

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Open Source Proposed Key Partners

• Open University/Social

Learn

• Open Learning Initiative

• NSDL STEM Exchange

• EDUCAUSE Learning

Initiative (ELI)

• Next Generation Learning

Challenges

• Society for Learning

Analytics (SoLAR)

• Shared Learning

Collaborative

• Learning Resources

Metadata Initiative

Learning Registry (LRMI)

• Learning Registry

• Support for API/hooks

in/out of proprietary

systems like Blackboard.

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What parts are future vision?

• Ideally, the system will be

reinforced through localization of

the information being received

• Localization teams will work with

local instructional technologists

and training staff to use

technology to tailor content and

language for local cultures

• Localization is a key component

in stabilizing the system and in

bringing it into an eco-systemic

balance

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Train Farmers in Tanzania

• Local agricultural college in

Tanzania wants to educate local

farmers to increase crop

production

• Trainers use COELS to

• Engage in needs assessment

• Identify viable workshop models

• Obtain “open” workshop materials

• Communicate with worldwide experts

• Collaborate with other Tanzanian

trainers

• Publish their training program for

others to use & improve

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Global Business Training

• College students in Toronto

Canada are studying

Marketing for Global Business

program

• Students use COELS to

• Create & follow blogs to note

trends

• Examine website paradata to

determine buying patterns

• Participate in blended learning

combining face-to-face classes

with online components

• Use ePortfolios to display final

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Student enrolled in a MOOC • Nepalese Student enrols in MOOC

in Fantasy & Science Fiction ...

with 30,000 other students!

• Student uses COELS to

• Learn how to create a group blog with

four other students, each from a

different country, learning how to learn

together

• Build Google site highlighting lessons

learned

• Connect with other independent

learners via COELS community

• Write & distribute "Guide to Surviving

MOOC Fantasy -SciFi" for future

students

COELS2012 Image from http://highlighter.com/2012/07/how-we-learned-to-stand-out-in-a-class-of-

100000-people/

Self-Publishing Teacher

• Teacher has developed course

materials for "American

Revolutionary Literature" and

wants to make them available

freely online

• Teacher uses COELS to

• Discover the Learning Registry

and LRMI

• Connect with other self-

publishing educators via the

COELS community who help

select a publishing platform

• Document learning process via a

Teaching ePortfolio COELS2012

Image provided by Laura Gibbs

Student of Biblical Greek

• Retired bus driver in Argentina

has decided to learn Biblical

Greek

• Non-traditional student uses

COELS to

• Connect via COELS community with

the Ancient Greek Language

community at Google +

• Join a group blog with fellow

students of Biblical Greek

• Use Google Hangout for online

study sessions

• Create and share games that

encourage learning

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UK Family Traveling to Italy

• Family wants to add

educational dimension to

upcoming trip to Italy

• Family uses COELS to

• Connect via COELS community

where they learn about

LiveMocha for learning Italian

• Create a travel blog to share

travel experiences

• Work with Learning Registry to

build a Google site about their trip

keyed to Common Core standards

for their children's grade levels

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Image provided by Laura Gibbs

Literacy for Children in Vietnam • Seeds of Empowerment: 1001 Stories

• Organization currently uses COELS

approach re individualized learning, content

delivery & publishing to

• Promote literacy through storytelling

• Set up local workshops to teach

children to use PocketSchool mobile

learning device

• Collect stories and publishes some

internationally for mobile learning

applications at stores (e.g., Apple app

store or Amazon kindle ebook store)

• COELS future vision would also include

• Localizing language and culture for

other communities

• Automatic delivery of new

individualized content

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How to realize COELS?

Key Activities

• Build community

• Facilitate curation of online

resources

• Raise awareness of emerging

technologies, learning

resources and innovative

pedagogies

• Work with partners to

encourage development of

key COELS aspects (e.g.

localization)

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More Key Activities

• Develop best practices

• Host/coordinate

• Google+ Community

• Online seminars

• Hangouts (#COELSHangout)

• Showcase exemplary

teaching, learning and

research

• Publish cases & research

• Present at conferences

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Collaboration with the community

COELS team will raise awareness of how

current and emerging technologies by

• Situating learning in meaningful

contexts

• Supporting creation & sharing of

learning resources

• Facilitate content curation

• Engage in ongoing social media

conversations

• Identify partners to house

repositories for best practices

• Host regularly scheduled events

such as webinars and hangouts

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System Stability • Unbundling so that partners may receive

benefits for certain inputs while providing free

services to others

• Example: coursera

• Provides free MOOCs

• Generates income through

• Licensing platforms

• Certifications

• Recruitment

• Industry will contribute to setting learning

objectives based on needed skill sets

• Participants get certification, mentoring,

internships and ability to work as soon as

they finish a learning sequence

• Localization will encourage stabilization

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Design Thinking

The COELS team supports

a design thinking approach

to innovation through

• Discovery

• Interpretation

• Ideation

• Experimentation

• Evolution

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COELS vision

... supports a living and

viable learning system that

will continue to evolve and

be available to people

throughout the world by

connecting high quality,

accessible and localized

resources, best practices

and technology to create a

sustainable learning model

for the future!

COELS Contact Information

• Ongoing discussion and

development of COELS

• COELS Google+ page

• COELS Google+ Community

• COELS Google site

• Information and tools

• Philosophies & practices

• ePortfolios

• Google toolbox (sites, blogger,

docs, images, videos)

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COELS/DNLE

This presentation represents work

completed in the Designing a new Learning

Environment (DNLE) course offered by Dr.

Paul Kim of Stanford University

Thank you for visiting our team project

Team members

Kimberly Hayworth

Cathleen Galas

Laura Gibbs

Susan Lieberman

Donna Murdoch

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