I just found out about #OpenLearning17: A Connectivist MOOC for Faculty Collaboratives. Since I’m already on a quest to learn more about open education as I revise one of my primary courses, I figured I’d give it a whirl. To be quite honest, I have no idea what a faculty collaborative is :). It sounds […]
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I just found out about #OpenLearning17: A Connectivist MOOC for Faculty Collaboratives. Since I’m already on a quest to learn more about open education as I revise one of my primary courses, I figured I’d give it a whirl. To be quite honest, I have no idea what a faculty collaborative is :). It sounds […]
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Not too sure what it’s all about exactly (yet), but I’m going to belly flop my way into Open Learning 17. Why? Because I see Laura Gogia, Gardner Campbell, Autumm Caines, Chuck Pearson, among others, are involved. That’s enough for me to give it a go. See you out there!
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Seems there will be a “cMOOC” about this. cMOOC being an open course that’s focused on ‘connectivity,’ somehow. We’ll see. The syllabus is pretty dry and academic, going through the history of ‘open.’ Guess my main beef with the ‘open’ community is that it’s so imbued with academic culture, as in “let me pontificate about equity and open” in theory. http://openlearninghub.net/ is the door and it’s out of Virginia and … am I destined to return there? It’s so *in the grid.*
I’m also wading through the convoluted directions for how I should tag my blog posts for it. I did hte best I could… thought about using ds4oer so I could be “the whole blog is about this thing” but … that’s my blog to my self. So
TAG openlearning 
(It feels like one more dead end distraction but … let’s see right now about finding that wretched flash drive and getting my ‘five things on the course’ started…)
Reading “Fifty Shades of Open” by Jeffrey Pomerantz and Robin Peek in First Monday http://firstmonday.org/article/view/6360/5460 one considers the parallel between the growth of fan fiction and the growth of *open* across the array of meanings the word carries. It is a tempting if baffling parallel. Wondering how to grasp a meaning of *open,* I thought of questions for Open Learning ’17. What do the principles and practices of open learning share with liberal education and undergraduate general education—teaching, learning, and assessment in practice right now? What utility in bringing together liberal education practitioners with open learning practitioners? The Faculty Collaboratives project at AAC&U http://www.aacu.org/faculty has been supporting and nurturing communities of practice among educators for liberal and general education. Why? We want to offer the best possible college education to all students, no matter their program or type of institution they attend. There is a focused and principled goal for the project. We’re building networks and infrastructure for educators across states and state systems so that they can in turn do their best work in meeting and reaching all students. We want to emphasize the learning and success of the large numbers of undergraduate students who have the most to benefit from higher education. Students who have not been served well by public education are first in my mind and in the minds of many colleagues. Equity in student success is a great goal. That is the story I offered Gardner Campbell in the interview at http://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1/?p=2638. I hope students will benefit if we do a better job of collaborating as educators across communities within and among states and state systems. As I see it, the experiment of Open Learning ‘17 will give us a chance to answer the questions above. I confess I want to find stronger ties than I am seeing right now. It is true that information literacy is one of the outcomes of the Liberal Education and America’s Promise or LEAP initiative http://www.aacu.org/leap. Will we find richer points of convergence?
This is my first post for Open Learning. I’ve created a blog and am now linking my posts by a feed to the Open Learning collectivist MOOC. This cMOOC is an experiment organized by the Virginia Open Learning initiative as part of a project with the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U; www.aacu.org). The easy way to understand: This cMOOC will try an experiment in community building for academics who are devoted to general and liberal education and who want to collaborate in using open education resources. It’s a crossover project, a boundary-crossing project. I am hoping that the collective of people who join the MOOC will make discoveries together. If we do, we can advance liberal education for all students by working within a larger community of educators than we may have been reaching. It’s all about liberal education, inclusive pedagogies, and open learning together. That sounds easier than it is going to be!
I’ve been intrigued by the idea of open educational resources for a while now. Since I’ll likely be switching to an open-access textbook as part of this process, I’d like to learn more about the open educational movement in general. I’ve enrolled in the Becoming an Open Educator course created by Open Educational Practices in […]
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