As per usual, I've been working a bit during winter break. Good news....I guess. The spring of 2017 version of the famed "Monster Syllabus" for R678 Emerging Learning Technologies has been reawakened, revived, and rejuvenated, is now available for anyone to explore, use, share, expand, debate, etc. While it had expanded to 75 pages a few years ago and then contracted to something much more reasonable last year. Much has been added in from the happenings of the past year and a few things revived from prior semesters. For the spring of 2017, the monster now stands at a mere 63 pages.
I added back in augmented reality, virtual reality, and gaming; which I had deleted a couple of years ago. I also found many new research articles and news items (i.e., tidbits). And I included a bit on artificial intelligence to the end of the course (for possible mainstream addition next time). See below for links to the 16 designated weeks of the course.
Direct Navigation Links:
Skip to Week 1. (January 9) Introduction to the Open World: Visionaries and Visions
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Week 2. Alternate Reality Learning: AR, VR, Gaming, and Simulations (Explore Week #1)
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Week 3. The Sudden Explosion of E-Books and E-Book Readers
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Week 4. The Expansion of Blended and Fully Online Learning
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Week 5. Extreme, Nontraditional, and Adventure Learning
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Week 6. Open Educational Resources (OER) and OpenCourseWare (OCW)
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Week 7. Open Education and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
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Week 8. More MOOCs and Open Education Around the World
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Week 9. Motivation in Informal and Self-Directed Online Learning
Environments (including online language learning) (Explore Week #2)
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Week 10. Connectivism, Social Media, and Participatory Learning
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Week 11. Wikis, Wikipedia, Wikibooks, and Collaborative Writing (Explore Week #3)
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Week 12. Shared Online Video and Audio (Explore Week #4)
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Week 13. Flipping the Classroom
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Week 14. Interactive, Global, and Collaborative Learning (including learning spaces, etc.)
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Week 15. Mobile, Wireless, and Ubiquitous Learning
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Week 16+. Networks of Personalized Learning and AI Agents
I have been teaching this course for more than a quarter century. It has evolved from a course mostly about the psychology of learning with technology to one that discusses a series of prominent technology tools and resources. There are dozens and dozens of articles, videos, websites, technology tools, e-books, etc., just waiting for you to explore in the spring 2017 syllabus. In addition, you can explore every prior syllabus (see the Web links below). Much more is in the monster syllabus itself. See first link below for the latest incarnation of the monster.
I look forward the spring class. Anyone is welcome to sit in. It is on Monday nights at 7:00-9:45 pm in Room 2101 of the Indiana University (IU) School of Education. Stop on by. If you do, perhaps you will be seeing monsters in your sleep.
Sample Prior P600/R685/R678 Syllabi:
- Spring 2017: http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/Syllabus_R678_Spring_of_2017.htm
- Spring 2016: http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/Syllabus_R678_Spring_of_2016.htm
- Spring 2015: http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/Syllabus_R678_Spring_of_2015.htm
- Spring 2013: http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/Syllabus_R685_Spring_of_2013.htm
- Fall 2012: http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/Syllabus_R685_Fall_of_2012.htm
- Spring 2012: http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/Syllabus_R685_Spring_of_2012.htm
- Fall 2011: http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/Syllabus_R685_Fall_of_2011.htm
- Fall 2010: http://mypage.iu.edu/~cjbonk/Syllabus_R685_Fall_of_2010.htm
- Fall 2009: http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/Syllabus_R685_Fall_of_2009.htm
- Fall 2008: http://mypage.iu.edu/~rwadholm/R685/Syllabus_R685_Fall_of_2008.htm
- Fall 2007: http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/R685-Fall-2007.htm
- Fall 2005: http://mypage.iu.edu/~cjbonk/syllabus_p600_and_r685_fall_of_2005.htm
- Fall 2003: http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/p600syl2.htm
- Fall 2002: http://mypage.iu.edu/~cjbonk/Syllabus--2002.html
- Fall 2001: http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/P600-R685-2001.htm
- Fall 1999: http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/P600-R685-1999.htm
- Fall 1997: http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/P600-R685-1997.htm
- Spring 1995: http://php.indiana.edu/~cjbonk/P600-R685-1995.htm
- Fall 1990: http://travelinedman.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-evolution-of-monster-22-years-of.html
Final Note:
By the way, back in September 2012 (a little over four years ago), I made a blog post that included more of the history related to this course. Feel free to explore it. If you do, you can see what topics were hot back in 1990…some of which remain important today. Perhaps in three or four more years (i.e., the Year 2020), I will provide another glimpse of the history of this course. Perhaps it will have a another new and improved title. And perhaps someone else will be teaching it. Time will tell.
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