CMC11: Creativity and Multicultural Communication

September- December 2011

Welcome!

Facilitators

Betty Hurley-Dasgupta Carol Yeager

Why MOOC?“MOOCs are an example of open learning at its best,” said Davis. “With MOOCs, it is the process of networking and making connections with others, which leads to communication, learning and then to greater knowledge and understanding.”Alan Davis, SUNY Empire State College President

Press release from SUNY Empire State College 

Participation

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The Big Picturewith RetSam Zhang ~ Tech support

Groups (Back Channels)

Start your own …see add Channels information …join as many as you wish and …cross-pollinate = connectivism

Taking for Credit?

• Contact Carol.Yeager@esc.edu

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What is Creativity?• the ability to transcend traditional ideas,

rules, patterns, relationships, or the like, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, interpretations, etc.; originality, progressiveness, or imagination:

Creativity and Learning

“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, it will be those who cannot learn, unlearn and relearn” A. Toffler … “Future Shock” 1970

• How do we build a community of global learners for the purpose of connecting and engaging people in connectivist lifelong learning?

• Creativity and creative problem solving are building blocks for sustaining lifelong learning and having fun in the process

Multiculturalism vs Interculturalism

  Definition of Culture: "the learned and shared values, beliefs and behaviors of a group of interacting people."            Milton Bennett           Founder, Intercultural Communication          Institute

What’s Next ?

 Online Immersive Environments for Education: Theory and

Practice

Let's co-create some knowledge Contribute to the emerging concept map  Glen Gatin ~ week 8

Global Communicationhttp://www.wallwisher.com/wall/GlobalCommunication

 

Linked In ~ CMC11 Global Connections                  RetSam Zhang and Silvia Purpuri ~ Week 9

Questions?

CMC11  Help Desk

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