sMOOChing as Teaching; Teaching as sMOOChing
Part Deux and Part Trois Feb 15, 2013
Flipped classrooms, MOOCs,
Good New Answers for Good Old Questions
Steven W. Gilbert, President, TLT Group
2PM ET Part Deux, Free Online tlt.gs/frlv
4:15PM ET Part Trois, Grandover West,
Koury Convention Center, Greensboro, NC, Lilly Conference
Background, description below. As always, we welcome
your attendance and your participation.
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Steve
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Steve
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Background, Description
sMOOChing: Facilitating the most
effective integration of MOOCs and similar new resources into undergraduate
programs of colleges and universities that are NOT producing or hosting the
MOOCs. And thereby increase the variety, quality, and quantity of
undergraduate instruction available to students and alumni.
FQ3: 3rd Fundamental Question:
How can we help people learn from an available information
resource?
[NEW info resource:
like a MOOC?]
[OLD info resource:
like a book?]
More, better, faster, easier, ...?
- Without the participation of the author/publisher/lecturer?
- Without the awareness of the author/publisher/lecturer?
- Without the permission of the author/publisher/lecturer
Deep Background
- New technologies almost always enable the production of new information resources much sooner than humanity can figure out how to use them for educational purposes.
- Entrepreneurs and innovators outside of education almost always figure out how to begin using the new resources before educators do.
- Independent self-motivated learners almost always figure out how to begin using the new resources before teachers and other professional educators do.
- There aren't many independent self-motivated learners.
- Some of the better ways of using the new resources may not emerge for a long time - may wait until some people begin thinking in new ways, perceiving new kinds of possibilities for using them.
Support Roles Developed by TLT Group
In the TLT Group's online activities during the past several
years, especially in FridayLive!, we have developed some practices and roles
that both improve the quality of the sessions and the sense of community for
those who participate often. Please help us adapt these valuable roles
and practices to enhance the educational benefits of rapidly emerging new
resources like MOOCs, especially for learners who are NOT affiliated with the
institutions that are producing and hosting the MOOCs et al.
- Voice of the Chat (VoC)
- Extermission
- DIIGO project
- Designated Learner
- Designated Kibitzer
Local Facilitators
Those who take on some of the roles listed above and other
roles to be developed for helping undergraduates learn more effectively from
MOOCs and similar resources integrated with undergraduate courses.
Potential "local facilitators" of undergraduate
learning via MOOCs and similar resources include: faculty (full-time,
part-time, current, retired) and other academic professionals, current
undergraduates and graduate students, alumni.
sMOOChers cohort's foci: content, method, roles
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IMAGE selected by Steve
Gilbert 20121012
Photo of "A male
Blue-and-Gold Macaw (left) and a female Blue-throated Macaw (right)."
"
Date 31 January 2010,
...Source originally posted to Flickr as Macaw Smooch;
Author Jen Smith
Permission
By Jen Smith (originally
posted to Flickr as Macaw Smooch) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via
Wikimedia Commons
"This image, which was
originally posted to Flickr.com, was uploaded to Commons using Flickr upload
bot on 12:49, 1 February 2010 (UTC) by Snowmanradio (talk). On that date it was
licensed under the license below. ... This file is licensed under the
Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license."
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