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OPEN ONLINE LEARNING K12

From: http://victoriadee.blogspot.

ca/2010/01/monday-

meditation-voice-by-

shel.html

• open online courses

• open online webinars

• open online conferences

W WHO HAS PARTICIPATED IN:

ELCOME! QUESTION #1

• blogs

• wikis

• RSS feeds

• online courses

• other open online content options?

WHO HAS CREATED:

QUESTION #2

• Staff

• Community of Practice

• Administrators

• Students

• Parents

• Others?

WHAT AUDIENCE ARE YOU LOOKING TO CREATE AN "OPEN" ENVIRONMENT

TAKEAWAYS….WHAT IS OPEN LEARNING?

Open Learning wiki:

http://openlearningk12.wikispaces.

com

GoogleDoc: http://bit.ly/R7BM3k

Rather than thinking of

public education as a

burden that schools must

shoulder on their own, what

would it mean to think of

public education as a

responsibility of a more

distributed network of

people and institutions...

....what would it mean to enlist help in

this endeavour from an engaged and

diverse set of publics that are broader

than what we traditionally think of as

educational and civic institutions? In

addition to publics that are dominated by

adult interests, these publics should

include those that are relevant and

accessible to kids now, where they can

find role models, recognition, friends, and

collaborators who are co participants in

the journey of growing up in a digital age.

Mimi Ito, 2010

Have you used it?

Have you edited it?

Have you created

anything for it?

FOCUS:

http://thecleversheep.blogspot.ca/2012/06/seven

-degrees-of-connectedness_06.html

1. Lurker

2. Novice

3. Insider

4. Colleague

5. Collaborator

6. Friend

7. Confidant

7 DEGREES OF CONNECTEDNESS

Personally:

WHAT IGNITED THE IDEA EVEN MORE...

Retrieved from: http://edudemic.com/wp-

content/uploads/2012/04/cartoon.jpg

Alec Couros led week 29 - Understanding Digital Citizenship

#CHANGE11 MOOC - MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE

COURSE

As I listened and participated in Alec's

session - I wondered how come I had

never experienced this kind of

"online" learning before? How could I

apply it to k-12 audience? Is there a

k-12 MOOC? What does it look like?

Would others want to help me create

a MOOC for k-12?

MY PERCEPTIONS OF A MOOC

• Everyone was there to learn together (no hierarchy)

• Teachers gave contact information

• Teachers encouraged you to connect with them

• "Nodes" (Digital Learning areas) to interact and connect with

others

• Flipped Learning

• Content given in Digital Format

• Choice of Activities

• Activities presented in open forum for feedback

• No formal assessment

• All activities presented using social media

WHAT MADE THE EXPERIENCE

UNIQUE?ONLINE COURSES

TO CONNECT AND NETWORK

TRADITIONAL ONLINE LEARNING ATTEMPTS.....

WHAT MATTERS:

http://venspired.com/?p=2804

Retrieved from: http://tarateach.blogspot.ca/2011/01/blooms-taxonomy.html

http://www.schrockguide.net/bloomin-

apps.html

...HAVE A FUTURE IN WILL MEET K-12 NEEDS

WHY OPEN ONLINE COURSES...

Retrieved with permission from:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/courosa/2922421696/

IT’S ABOUT TEACHERS AND STUDENTS USING THE TECHNOLOGY

To create learning for

all…https://vimeo.com/43401199

1. Who is your audience or what

are your creating the Open

Course for?

HOW TO DESIGN A MOOC

Courseware:

How to create a MOOC - #DigiFoot12 Recordings of Webinar,

Slideshare and Live Binder

Edmodo

Wikis

Canvas

CoursesitesP2PU Education

OPEN ONLINE OPTIONS

WIKISPACES

STUDENT 2.0

MIGHTYBELL

EDMODO

-OER-

Open Educational Resources

FREE OPEN ONLINE!!!! For k12!

-CC-

Creative Commons

The licensing you LOOK for when attributing course content

AND what you consider when creating course content

OEROER AND CC

Created by: Jeremy Macdonald @MrMacnology

I chose a "Badge" System of Assessment

ASSESSMENT Assessment:

WILL RICHARDSON - ASSESSMENT GRAPH

http://willrichardson.com/post/2

8626310240/the-

immeasurable-part-2

• I can create an environment where all

participants felt "included“in some way

• We all like to be the examples

WHAT I HAVE

LEARNED…..EARNING....#1

Participants can be beginners to advanced - I could to scaffold

options for new learners while challenging my advanced

learners. Open Learning naturally offer personalized learning

options

Participant mentors were asked to volunteer to MODEL, to write

comments anytime they saw something unanswered, to help

me moderate Blackboard sessions, Twitter, Netvibes,

Google.docs and various other tools. I encouraged others to

lead in order to help make the course sustainable for me.

VERENA'S LEARNING #2

Student questions and teacher feedback seemed

"amplified" in an open online forum

I learned to accept that failure was possible, learn

from my mistakes and do my best.

Being authentic got me through and accepting that I

am a learner too!

VEVERENA’S LEARNING

#3LEARNING #3

Collection of Learning Artifacts

• You will have a collection of resources based on a collaborative effort

• You will have developed leadership skills among your peers and ensured that

everyone is identified by their strengths

• You will have created the foundations for autonomous learning for all participants

which will offer them the opportunities outside of the school and/or district

WHAT DO YOU FINISH WITH?WHAT

WILL YOU END WITH?

An online Module or Course (Students, Teachers, Admin,

Districts, Gov't)

• Using an open or closed wiki, you could use the MOOC

model to create an online course or module of your own

based on this PPT presentation

HOW OPEN ONLINE LEARNING

"COULD” BE USED IN K-12

Open Courses can be offered on any topic and can be a "course" or way to

connect and learn.

Pick one topic - then pick various subtopics for your "experts" to focus on.

You don't have to ask others to be "experts" you could be the lead facilitator

the whole way through....However, asking others to "lead" a week based

on their "strength" is a great way to connect and network.

You can choose to keep the course within a school, district or consider

opening your "course" to others.

AS A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPTION

Questions?

WHATWHAT ABOUT YOU?