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Sharing ED677 theory and design

From 2015 through to 2019 I taught a spring course at Arcadia University called Seeking Equity in Connected Learning and Teaching. It was a graduate level class offered by the School of Education and part of the Connected Learning Certificate available at the time. 

In this video I share some of the theory behind this course and its related course design. I created this mostly for participants in another course I am about to launch, Teaching Writing Online, at Johns Hopkins; but I also thought it might be more generally of interest. Much of the design is ultimately influenced by the National Writing Project’s CLMOOC work (2013-15) and Domain of One’s Own and available to me via #connectedcourses work and Reclaim Hosting.

In these next two videos I share two activities within ED677 - a shared curation process called Find 5 Friday (#f5f) and an online consultancy process using Flipgrid and a Consultancy Protocol.

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Hello (Connected Courses) World

Connected courses are about connecting learners with each other and with networks in the world outside the classroom. They don’t have to be massive, but they can be. They do include videos and texts, but they are more about fostering cooperative communities of discourse than about passing quizzes about content. They connect classrooms and course cohorts within location-based institutions to learners and networks elsewhere in the world. They are about co-learning, trans-media, and codesigning the courses. (For more about connected learning in general, see this resource) I’m thrilled at the prospect of spending next week with many people who have been my guiding stars and mentors in online learning — I won’t list them here, but you’ll see their posts showing up here soon — planning an open, connected course for educators who want to create open, connected courses. Our course will begin in late September and run into December, with a group of facilitators lecturing, blogging, and commenting each week.