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Networked Learning: Not should we, but how?
August 23, 2013TREC PD Session
Cyri Jones
Modality is actually a moot point.
It’s all about the type of learning taking place. Is it rote learning, i.e. surface learning…
… or is it deep learning -- engaging, participatory, ideally with real-life, multi-disciplinary projects
Online learning strength -- it can help overcome the tragedy of the teacher bottleneck and the course and program silo.
"In a time of stable knowledge, teach; in a time of rapidly-changing knowledge, learn."
– Carl Rogers
“Teaching used to be telling students about the world. Now it’s about engaging students with the world."
Three integrated components can really enable a more modern pedagogy that helps prepare learners for the world they live in…
Social Networks
Mobile Technology
e-Portfolios + Social Network + Mobile Devices =Engaged, empowered, deep learning
e-Portfolios + Social Network + Mobile Devices =Engaged, empowered, deep learning
Authentic, real life scenariosExperience to perceptions to conceptions
Truly student owned butaffiliated with schoolDigital literacyEases career transition
Power of the classes’ networkAccessible from anywhereActivity feeds
From the sage on the stage to the guide on the side to one of many embedded guides
EmployabilityGap
Internal Communications Gap Alumni & External Stakeholder Communications Gap
Schools Work & Life
Students, faculty and staff “trapped” in “closed” courses within unit silos within program silos within school silos!
Inter-disciplinary Project Gap
The world is moving rapidly from hierarchal structures to network structures. Schools risk becoming irrelevant by training students for a world that no longer exists using tools that are often out-dated.
LearningGap
The Problem
Internal Social Network
SchoolWork & Life
Communities of practiceStudent club sitesCourse sitesProject sites
External lifelong learning network
E-Portfolio is at the root of this and provides an anchor to other social media like Twitter, Facebook, Linked In etc.
TwitterLinked In
The Solution
MKTGBCPT
BADM
Bachelor of Business Admin.
IBUSBFIN
E-Portfolio integrates curriculum and showcases evidence of skills and abilities, empowers student to reflect on what they are learning for better retention.
Classmates can also connect and get better integrated
E-Portfolios enable integration!
researchstream.net
Sample Site – Eraccommons.ca
Sample Site – DeltaLearns.ca
Sample Site – sd8learns.sd8.bc.ca
The Case for Eportfolios
How Recent Studies of Adult Learning Support Use of Eportfolios
Trent Batson, Ph.D., Executive Director,The Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning
AAEEBL.org
High-Impact Educational Practices
(Kuh; AAC&U) First year seminars
Common Intellectual Experiences
Learning Communities
Writing-Intensive Courses
Collaborative Assignments and Projects
Undergraduate Research
Diversity/Global Learning
Service Learning, Community-Based Learning
Internships
Capstone Courses and Projects
Kinds of Learning in these Practices?
Social – in groups; collaboration
Authentic – real life
Experiential
Writing in all courses
Synthesizing – capstone courses
Expecting students to be adults – undergraduate research
Evidence-Based
AAEEBL = Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning
How Adults Learn
All learning starts with experience – visiting a cathedral, for example
Learners have perceptions about that experience – the cathedral had more natural light than other cathedrals
With help from teaching staff, develop conceptions that are current in the field – such” creating a sense of ethereal light is an important design element in classical gothic architecture”
But, Teaching is Backwards
Teacher has had experience, has had perceptions, and has already developed conceptions
Teacher, then, talks to students at the conceptual level
Students have not had the preliminary and necessary experience or perceptions to understand or embrace the conceptions.
High-Impact Practices reverse this process
Eportfolios support and Augment These
Practices Collect evidence of experience
Record perceptions of that experience; written reflections, audio clip, video clip, photos
Review perceptions; share with other learners, develop beginnings of conceptions
Review perceptions over time of many experiences, develop conceptions; eportfolios allow educators to design a better learning process
Teaching/Learning Model for This Century
Developing Perception
s
Consulting with
Professor
Developing Conception
s
Experience Collecting Evidence
Reflection
Better word: PERCEPTION; refining perceptions is a reflective process.
Perception happens automatically; reflective practice requires training
Both perception and reflection are PROCESSES
Reflection can result in an analysis or a meditation or an essay.
Evaluation of Learners’ Work
NOT LISTEN Memorize TEST
But: Listen … form group … develop problem statement … assign deliverables among group … field work, gather evidence … present group report with links to evidence in eportfolio … each individual learner does capstone eportfolio presentation; outside assessors evaluate eportfolios.
Task-level rubrics Task Evaluate per learning outcomes
Oculus Rift
M Multidisciplinary=
Massive? Maybe… but not required
O Open=
At least part of it openTransparent goals
O Online=
At least part of it online
P Projects=
Clear start and endUnique ComplexTangible deliverableBenefit to communityAcademic credit
S Scalable=
Infrastructure in placeNot just “one-offs”Can build on previous yearsCan scale across schools and regions
Source: Green shopping cart by Polycart, CC by 2.0Consumers
Source: Workers inside Kenworth plant, Seattle, 1934 by IMLS DCC, CC by 2.0Producers
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https://zenportfolios.ca/groups/student-entrepreneurship-handbook-project-2012/
Talent Cloud – A new Zen Portfolios service
Talent Cloud
http://zenlaunchpad.com/programs-services/workshops/upcoming-workshops/