When MOOCs become TOOCs: Evolution of a concept. I’m noticing a shift in emphasis from MOOCs as stand alone courses to MOOCs as courseware. Michael Feldstein has crafted a useful analogy to distinguish between course and courseware: If you think about delivering a course as being like making a meal, then the course design is what’s in the chef’s head and pantry that she combines to make the meal. Courseware is the recipe and box of ingredients provided so that anyone can cook the meal. And a “course” is a particular meal created by a particular chef. Of course, if they aren’t stand alone courses, they aren’t really MOOCs. Constructing the courseware in-house would naturally provide monetary advantages in the long term. All courses that adopt the TOOC model would become hybrids, by definition. Like this: Like Loading...
PLE as a lifelong learning tool. How do you manage your information? This past week, AU welcomed its third cohort in the CDE doctoral program. I spoke to the group about TEKRI's role within AU as a research catalyst and innovative knowledge generation institute. During one of the sessions, I walked into a conversation where various AU faculty were providing students different systems for managing research papers, literature, and information.
Managing resources is one of the most important skills for students (people!) To master. I started blogging in 2000 and have spent a significant amount of time trying to devise an information management system that I can use to make sense of a topic or discipline. I've attached an image below that highlights the process and tools that I use. This system has a few weaknesses (that I find in every tool I use): 1. 2. Information is not something that has value in itself. TEKRI will be hosting an event this next year (Feb 27-Mar 1, 2011) on Learning Analytics. Over to you - how do you manage your information? Stages of Personalized Learning Environments. By Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey In attempting to transform teaching and learning to personalized learning, consider where you are currently and envision which stage you can see feasible for your school, district or community.
The Stages of Personalized Learning Environments (PLE) Version One chart needed to be updated. Why? Because of the considerable feedback we received after posting our first version of the chart. Some of the feedback was about consistency and flow across the stages. What worked in what stage? We definitely want to thank those that critiqued the stages for us and helped us with this version two. Please feel free to download version two and let us know how it supports your transformation to personalizing learning. Download the chart below for free: Link to Slideshare of Stages of Personalized Learning Environments v2 Some questions to consider before embarking on your journey to personalize learning: All feedback is welcome and appreciated. Personal Learning Environments as conscious learning strategies. Digitalingua , the International Conference on Digital Environments and Language Learning, took place last week and I was interviewed by one of the organizers, Lola Torres on the topic of Personal Learning Environments (PLE).
Below you can find the original text of the interview in Spanish, and a quick translation into English. What do you mean by PLE? Although certainly not the best way to define a thing, I like to think on the Personal Learning Environment as opposed to two aspects of learning, which are, still today, the orthodox and hegemonic form to understand education (and note the change of “learning” to “education” is fully conscious). When we think of learning we tend to circumscribe it into a formal and institutional environment.
The Personal Learning Environment is rethinking the whole process of learning from the informal and the endogenous or non-institutional, everyone becoming responsible for their own learning plan. Now available to anyone, anywhere, anytime. Backwards.