reclaim open learning (cl series)
session 1: mar 11
What happens when you take a college course and turn it into a ‘come-one, come-all’ open learning environment?
About The Speaker(s)
- Jim Groom – Director of the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies and adjunct professor at the University of Mary Washington; creator of ds106
- Alan Levine – Web technology consultant and educational technology innovator; teacher at ds106
- Howard Rheingold – Author, educator, “online instigator”, and virtual community pioneer
Resources
Digital Storytelling 106 (ds106)
Connected Learning Case Study on ds106
Video: The Happy Student’s Guide to DS106
Video: Jim Groom on “A Domain of One’s Own: Notes from the Trailing Edge”
notes:
assignment banks…
moocs – the fact that they invited people
curious if this conversation is going on – because we are driven by cedentialing? ie: why assignment banks.. why offer choices.. rather than listen for choices?
http://community.umwdomains.com/
parts of ds106: assignment bank, create, remix, inspire, each has own site, radio,
sounds like no official credentialing – oh wait – there is..
jim’s fav – summer of oblivion – unbelievable play at work
howard – openness to serendipity – one of the most important elements
Christina: I’m skeptical of hole in the wall, or the rhetoric around it being that it’s a stand alone …
Christina: .. when really it is designed. or has a design that is based on practices …
Christina: and I think the same for dsl106, right? it comes from somewhere and has an architecture … ujust an open one that can shift, I think.
hmm.. what would be different.. how would time be spent by these amazing people – if there were no credentialing/course/topics/assignment-bank/ et al as a framework…
jim – the course itself has a soul – people communicating about what teaching would look like, what it could look like
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