Documentation:MEd/Meetings

=Meeting Agendas and Notes=

2015
Meeting - Michelle, Brian, Irwin

Notes

Buckets
Learning challenges Research informed practice MEME: Apply or die Online identities
 * Goal is to graduate having graduated having developed an online course or similar thing
 * Pedagogical model - embodying open educational practices into the expectations and outcomes of every course.
 * Wordpress and cloning tools
 * Alan Levine - challenge bank, syndication, expand out to full program scale
 * Layers - practical/technical skills - pedagogical knowledge - research and evaluation - reflection and critical understanding
 * Debunking mythology around technology - disruption, apocalypse, Internet law - privacy, copyright, EULAs, ToUs, Creative Commons,
 * Bulleted list item

Special topic - creating open textbook or other thing Philosophy - add project - philosophy/sociology of technology in education Diversity -

Foundational skills in open and connected learning
Digital literacies necessary to operate in open and connected learning environment Authentic learning Apply everything! Activities - 1-2 implementations per course
 * Should be mandatory first course or PLAR'd
 * Orientation to program approach
 * Create personal learning space and networks (tools and practices)
 * Completed project at the end of each course
 * Working in social networks
 * Facilitating collaboration in online communities
 * Creating, capturing, curating, sharing digital artifacts
 * Open pedagogies
 * Online research methods and issues
 * The flipped classroom
 * Finding and using OER
 * Using digital tools for learning assessment
 * Liberating structures
 * Frameworks for creating collaborative activities
 * Making short form videos and audio recordings
 * Meme - animated gifs
 * Personal archiving
 * Online privacy
 * Authentic learning principles and purposes - pedagogy

Question for group - not much focus on emerging technologies - should there be?

Resources

 * Bates new book
 * Handbook of Open/Distance

Connected learning theory or Theories of Open, Distance and Connected Learning
Topics Resources
 * Classic Theories (behaviourism, cognitivsim, social-constructivism, connectivism)
 * Theories of Distance/Open
 * Dron and Anderson (2011)

Openness in education or Open educational practices or Teaching and Learning in the Open or Open Educational Processes
Topics Resources Weller,M. (2014). The battle for open
 * (based on OERu microcourses)
 * open practices - History of Unesco, PLAR, Open Source Software (where does this fit?)

Designing open learning or Learning Design
Resources
 * Carvalho, L., & Goodyear, P. (2014). The architecture of productive learning networks. New York: Routledge.
 * Wiley's book on Project Management for IDs

Critical approaches
Topics
 * power, equity, access
 * Global approaches
 * critiquing notions of disruption
 * critiquing notions of open

Resources
 * Veletsianos (2016) Emerging Technologies
 * Christianson
 * Bayne, S., Knox, J., & Ross, J. (2015). Open education: the need for a critical approach. Learning, Media and Technology, 40(3), 247–250. http://doi.org/10.1080/17439884.2015.1065272

BIG IDEA for this course (different model)
Reimagining the Educator in the 21st Century (based on Law course, Law in the 21st century) Design your own...degree? network? policy? learning space?

Learning Communities or Learning Communities & Networked Learning
Topics:
 * Lave & Wenger (situated, CoP, others) - emergent learning - Constellations (weak/strong ties Ryberg et al)
 * Other ides: coherence vs networked/emergent (model by Mackness et al. ?)

IDEAS for Braintsorm day:
5 buckets with the following boxes:
 * Topics
 * Resources/tools
 * Activities/challenges
 * Projects? (ie for portfolio?)

2014
December 9 meeting September 10 Program nomenclature August 21 Program goals August 18 - General program features

2012
These notes were transferred from the earlier documentation in the OL WikiSpaces account which is now closed.

Nov 29 Agenda and Notes

December 10 2012 meeting

July 5 2013 Meeting