Adventures in Innovative Learning Design for Blended and Online Learning Environments
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Adventures in Innovative Learning Design for Blended and Online Learning Environments
Presented by Dr. Julia ParraQuality Matters Southwest Regional Conference
2014
+Hello Again
This is me - Julia aka Julia Wiggins (Second Life) aka @desertjul and more…LOL, I have so many identities, I'm not sure I remember them all. Could this be a problem? InterWeb Identity Crisis?
+My Spiel
As you all know, we live in an amazing time with access to the world of information at our fingertips. If information and knowledge are power, then at no time ever before in history has the average person had so much power! Or at least the potential for power :) And of course, as you all know, in addition to information, the tools are pretty awesome but I know that sometimes I get caught up in the fact that things are always in flux and ever changing. So I was thinking, this is a great time to pause, survey this exciting landscape and create as well as curate innovative learning models and strategies that are engaging and represent what we currently know and have available.
+ Leveling Up Horizon Report 2014
Tracking the Tools
Examining Self/Educator Identity: The Science & Art of Learning & Learning Theory Mashup
Standards = Foundation
Accessing Innovation, Thinking Innovatively
Elements of the Creative Classroom Research Model
MOOCs and the Rise of the Acronym
To MOOC or Not to MOOC?
MOOC in Progress…
+ Horizon Report 2014Trends, Challenges, & Developments
http://www.tagxedo.com/art/b5b3d71aa4fd4cd3
http://www.nmc.org/publications/2014-horizon-report-higher-ed
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+Tracking the Tools
Julz Toolzhttp://bit.ly/julztoolz
Any idea what the #1 tool has been for the last 3 years?How about #38?
+ Top 5/100
+ #38 from the MOOC Pack
Curtin University MOOCs: Thinking, Content, Platform, Partnershipshttp://blogs.curtin.edu.au/odvce/2013/02/curtin-university-moocs-thinking-content-platform-partnerships/
+ The Science & Art of LearningAKA The Gogies
Pedagogy – structured, formal K12 learning
Andragogy – structured, formal adult learning (Knowles, 1980)
Heutagogy – The study of self directed learning; includes unstrucured, self-directed & self-determined learning; focus on metacognition, knowledge sharing, creativity, original works, etc. (Hase & Kenyon, 2000; Blaschke, 2012)
Hybrid Pedagogy (Stommel, 2012) - http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/Journal/hybridity-pt-2-what-is-hybrid-pedagogy/
+ Learning Theory Mashup
Technology-based Pedagogy (Gao, Choy, Wong, & Wu, 2009)
Social Constructivism (Vygotsky, 2005)
Transformative Learning Theory (Mezirow, 2000)
Connected Learning Community (Nussbaum-Beach & Hall, 2012)
Critical Media and (Kellner & Share, 2005)
Connectivism - Learning Theory for the Digital Age – “the thesis that knowledge is distributed across a network of connections, and therefore that learning consists of the ability to construct and traverse those networks. It shares with some other theories a core proposition, that knowledge is not acquired, as though it were a thing. Knowledge is, on this theory, literally the set of connections formed by actions and experience.” (Siemens & Downes, 2011)
+Standards = Foundation
+ Accessing Innovation
With resources from New Media Consortium, SLOAN-C, Quality Matters, iNACOL, the Top 100 Tools for Learning and many great researchers at our fingertips with Google Search/Scholar, we actually have some great research-based models, standards, and best practices that provide a foundation for creating online and blended courses. So, like a house, when your course has a strong foundation, you can build on that foundation with everything that is awesome about you, your students, and your content. One thing that I think is important, is to figure out some things about your favorite strategies, your students, and your content and try to design models or processes that work for you and that you can share with others. This is what I think awesome teaching and learning is about - moving beyond the best practices towards models for differentiation, addressing different content, reaching different populations, etc.
+ Thinking Innovatively
Things I believe in and do well – collaboration, providing choice, using the technology, promoting fun --- but that’s not necessarily innovative…what might be innovative is how I put all of these ideas together and consistently apply them…
Something I heard about innovation – an “idea becomes an “innovation” only when it can be replicated reliably on a meaningful scale at practical costs. “ (Peter Senge, 1990)
+My Innovative Interests
Phases, Scaffolds, and Technology for Collaboration (Parra, 2013)
HyFlex – Hybrid & Flexible (Abelmalak & Parra, submitted 2014)
Co-Design for Democratic Classrooms (Abelmalak, in press).
Gamification, Game-Based Learning, The Multiplayer Classroom (Sheldon, 2012)
MOOCs… What are yours?
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Also from Horizon Report 2014 - http://www.nmc.org/publications/2014-horizon-report-higher-ed
+ MOOCs and the Rise of the Acronym… MOOC - Massive Open Online Course
xMOOC (professor-centric), cMOOC (connectivity-based)
LOOC – Little Open Online Course
SPOC – Small Private Online Classes – might open to public
LeMOOC – Limited enrollment MOOC, iMOOC (internal)
MOOC MANIA! The HYPE! The Fame! The Failure!
The Fame - (Siemens, 2008, 2013; Breslow, Pritchard, DeBoer, Stump, Ho, & Seaton, 2013)
The Failure – (Anders, 2013; Kolowich, 2013)
+ To MOOC or Not to MOOC?
So why do a MOOC now?
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“Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things
before breakfast.”
~ Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
+MOOC Design in Progress…
Look for it on the Canvas Network in Fall 2014
+ Contact Info and Resources
[email protected]: desertjulhttp://juliaparra.com References - http://goo.gl/QBseNA