Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Ed.D. In Ed Leadership Approved!
With all that's been going on lately I neglected to share the great news that the USA COE had its Ed.D. In Ed Leadership with concentrations in K-12 and Higher Ed, approved by ACHE to begin in Fall 2014. I'm over the moon about this and would love to talk with anyone interested in the program.
Call for proposals: Conf. on College Men
SC on Men & Masc. (@ACPA_SCM) tweeted at 9:49 AM on Wed, Mar 27, 2013: Last call for program submissions for the Conference on College Men! #ACPA #NASPA #sachat @NASPA_MMKC May 19-21st! http://t.co/qsHwa7PbNx (https://twitter.com/ACPA_SCM/status/316924914034692096) Get the official Twitter app at https://twitter.com/download
MOOCs...again
SITE General session and keynote with Paul Kim of Stanford University
"Designing a New Learning Environment with a MOOC"
gse-it.stanford.edu/about/team/paulkim
*Dr. Kim and I are the same age, but reviewing his accomplishments I feel like a real slacker.
MOOCs must have a purpose. What is the andragogy? What are the system features?
7 billion people on earth. 3 billion mobile phones on earth.
Mobile learning is being made available for children who have never owned a book. Dr. Park distributes mobile phones to children in poor areas around the world and tells them he got them from aliens and has no idea how they work. The children assure Dr. Park they will help him figure out how the devices work...and that's how they learn.
Dr. Kim's efforts focus on moving from remembering and understanding in the classroom to creating.
Sustainability and scalability of projects is always a challenge. 25% of 450,000 notebook computers distributed to children in Uruguay are still being used. Dr. Kim wants to know why.
"Cultural DNA" - very hard to change our mind sets about how learning should occur. In class vs. mobile learning.
Teachers may not be the only source of knowledge these days.
Dr. Kim created a MOOC "Designing a New Learning Environment," to get help thinking outside the box about learning. He had 20,000+ enrollees from over 100 countries.
*For the rest of the presentation I struggled with Internet connection problems. So I will publish link to Dr. Kim's MOOC for you to explore.
Here it is! http://venturelab.stanford.edu/education
Postscript: Dr. Kim mentioned Anya Kamenetz's book "DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education," and asked who in the audience had read it. My response:
"Designing a New Learning Environment with a MOOC"
gse-it.stanford.edu/about/team/paulkim
*Dr. Kim and I are the same age, but reviewing his accomplishments I feel like a real slacker.
MOOCs must have a purpose. What is the andragogy? What are the system features?
7 billion people on earth. 3 billion mobile phones on earth.
Mobile learning is being made available for children who have never owned a book. Dr. Park distributes mobile phones to children in poor areas around the world and tells them he got them from aliens and has no idea how they work. The children assure Dr. Park they will help him figure out how the devices work...and that's how they learn.
Dr. Kim's efforts focus on moving from remembering and understanding in the classroom to creating.
Sustainability and scalability of projects is always a challenge. 25% of 450,000 notebook computers distributed to children in Uruguay are still being used. Dr. Kim wants to know why.
"Cultural DNA" - very hard to change our mind sets about how learning should occur. In class vs. mobile learning.
Teachers may not be the only source of knowledge these days.
Dr. Kim created a MOOC "Designing a New Learning Environment," to get help thinking outside the box about learning. He had 20,000+ enrollees from over 100 countries.
*For the rest of the presentation I struggled with Internet connection problems. So I will publish link to Dr. Kim's MOOC for you to explore.
Here it is! http://venturelab.stanford.edu/education
Postscript: Dr. Kim mentioned Anya Kamenetz's book "DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education," and asked who in the audience had read it. My response:
#siteconf Does it make me a dork that I was proud to say I had read @anya1anyaDIY U when Dr. Paul Kim asked in his presentation on MOOCs?
— Peggy Delmas (@PeggyDelmas) March 27, 2013
#siteconf AND I required @anya1anya DIY U as text for higher ed leadership class! Great stuff.The best part is that the goddess herself, Anya Kamenetz, retweeted the second tweet! I can't figure out how to embed her retweet here, but I promise you it was the highlight of the conference for my nerdy little higher ed-lovin' self.
— Peggy Delmas (@PeggyDelmas) March 27, 2013
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Open Educational Designs:
A Taxonomy for Differentiating and Classifying Open Learning Environments
with Fred Baker and Dr. Dan Surry, University of South Alabama
diigo - for bookmarking (note to self: check it out)
*Disclaimer - my typing skills on iPad can't keep up with pace of presentation, so here is what I managed to capture
Connective digital technologies enable: transparency in learning ecosystem, lifelong learning, organic system structures.
An open dialogue is taking place between learners and educators , and the line is getting blurred.
Principles of openness = respect and freedom
Purpose of course will dictate degree of openness.
Who owns, controls data? How do we define, measure, track success? Here's where we're really lacking.
Drawbacks to instructing in this environment: Unpredictability, sensationalized by media
Benefits: Flexible and motivating for learner, Fosters participation, Helps remove politics from learning environment
Open Education is a "Grand Experiment"
with Fred Baker and Dr. Dan Surry, University of South Alabama
diigo - for bookmarking (note to self: check it out)
*Disclaimer - my typing skills on iPad can't keep up with pace of presentation, so here is what I managed to capture
Connective digital technologies enable: transparency in learning ecosystem, lifelong learning, organic system structures.
An open dialogue is taking place between learners and educators , and the line is getting blurred.
Principles of openness = respect and freedom
Purpose of course will dictate degree of openness.
Who owns, controls data? How do we define, measure, track success? Here's where we're really lacking.
Drawbacks to instructing in this environment: Unpredictability, sensationalized by media
Benefits: Flexible and motivating for learner, Fosters participation, Helps remove politics from learning environment
Open Education is a "Grand Experiment"
More "SITE-ings"
SITE = Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education
www.site.aace.org
This is my first time attending the SITE conference, which has 1,500 attendees presently. I understand from Dan Surry that USA COE is dominating with oodles of presentations by faculty and grad students -- yay us!
I've scoped out sessions on educational uses of Twitter (my newest obsession in case you hadn't noticed, @PeggyDelmas), distance Ed, and VoiceThread, among others.
One of the great things about conferences is the interesting people you meet. I sat in the "first timers" session earlier with a couple from Nova Scotia! The gentleman related to me that their weather back home was -2 Celsius...a quick converter search on Google translated that into 28 Fahrenheit. Brrrr. Even though things are chilly here in the Big Easy, we know that warmer temps are just around the corner. These hardy Nova Scotians won't get warm until May-ish. Have I said lately that I love living in the South?
www.site.aace.org
This is my first time attending the SITE conference, which has 1,500 attendees presently. I understand from Dan Surry that USA COE is dominating with oodles of presentations by faculty and grad students -- yay us!
I've scoped out sessions on educational uses of Twitter (my newest obsession in case you hadn't noticed, @PeggyDelmas), distance Ed, and VoiceThread, among others.
One of the great things about conferences is the interesting people you meet. I sat in the "first timers" session earlier with a couple from Nova Scotia! The gentleman related to me that their weather back home was -2 Celsius...a quick converter search on Google translated that into 28 Fahrenheit. Brrrr. Even though things are chilly here in the Big Easy, we know that warmer temps are just around the corner. These hardy Nova Scotians won't get warm until May-ish. Have I said lately that I love living in the South?
SITE Conference
Blogger has been really wonky for me this morning and I left my conference name badge in my hotel room AND I don't feel great...but then one of the kind ladies in registration reprinted my name badge so I wouldn't have to go back to my hotel to fetch it, and I saw my USA colleagues and co-presenters Susan Santoli and Paige Vitulli, and hey, I'm in New Orleans with a lot of smart people who love education and technology, so chin up buttercup, everything's gonna be okay.
Thursday, March 21, 2013
COE Scholarship Cycle Now Open!
College of Education
Scholarship applications are available and due back by May 15th.
Paper copies may be acquired in
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