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COL is "Keeping Doors Open"...and the world is very thankful! |
| Wednesday, March 25, 2020 |
I got an email yesterday from my friend Sanjaya Mishra from the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) with tons of wonderful vetted online resources across educational sectors.
It open with the following:
"With an increasing number of states, provinces and even whole countries
closing institutions of learning as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic,
over 80% of the world’s students are not attending school (UNESCO, 2020). COL stands ready to share its expertise and resources to enable stakeholders to keep the doors of learning open for all."
COL is exactly the type of organization that is geared up to help the world.
See COL’s statement on COVID-19. https://www.col.org/news/press-releases/keeping-doors-learning-open-covid-19
"With an increasing number of states, provinces and even whole countries
closing institutions of learning as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic,
363 million learners worldwide are being impacted (UNESCO, 2020)."
363 million learners! Look at the history:
"Since its establishment in 1987, COL has supported governments and
educational institutions in the Commonwealth to establish robust
distance teaching institutions and build competencies for quality online
learning practices. Over the years, it has created many resources,
including courses, policy briefs, how-to toolkits, as well as guidelines
on online learning and related areas that are downloadable for use by
policymakers, teachers and researchers around the globe."
And they further say:
"In these unprecedented times, ODL can support learning in the non-formal
and informal sectors, as well as the formal education sector. Below is a
curated list of resources for policymakers, school and college
administrators, teachers, parents and learners that will assist with
student learning during the closure of educational institutions. Most of
these are available as open educational resources with different
licenses. The specific license conditions for reuse and remix are
contained in the links."
I looked and I said WOW!
It has links to:
Take a look and you too can say WOW!
Thanks so much Sanjaya and COL! The COL specializes is OER resources evaluation, aggregation, and dissemination; especially for teacher training around the world. They are a world-class organization. A picture with Sanjaya Mishra (left side) and Santosh Panda (right) at the PCF9 conference in Edinburgh, Scotland in Septemer.
Labels: COL, Commonwealth of Learning, COVID-19, OER, open and distance learning, Open educational resources |
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There's a "Silver Lining for Learning" starting today |
| Saturday, March 21, 2020 |
There's a silver lining for learning that starts today.
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In
dealing with the coronavirus crisis, Chris Dede (Timothy
E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies at Harvard), Yong Zhao (Foundation Distinguished Professor at U of
Kansas), Punya Mishra (Professor and Associate Dean
of Scholarship and Innovation at ASU), Scott McLeod (Associate Professor of Educational
Leadership at U of Colorado), and I (along with Special
guest: Dr. Shuangye Chen, Professor, executive editor, ECNU Review of Education)
in China will have a new Webcast show called “Silver
Lining for Learning: Conversations about the Future of Education”
on Saturdays at 5:30 pm EST starting tomorrow March 21.
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Our
first guest will be TED Talk awardee Sugata Mitra on March 28. Yong Zhao has blogged
on it. The info is also below. Each week, the show will be streamed from Zoom
to YouTube. Note: At 5:15 pm EST each week the link will appear to watch the
stream at: http://silverliningforlearning.org/.
The shows will be recorded and made available. I hope to see ya.
Silver
Lining for Learning:
Conversations about the Future of Education
5:30-6:30pm
EDT (US) Saturdays
Watch
at:
Twitter:
#silverliningforlearning
Don’t
waste a crisis — M.F. Weiner
The “dark cloud” of the Coronavirus
crisis continues to cause havoc worldwide and seems a generation-defining
event. In education, this crisis has forced schools and universities to close,
pushing often unprepared institutions to move teaching and learning online. The
already stressed educational ecosystem now faces unprecedented difficulties
that will fall disproportionately on students of low socioeconomic status and
marginalized groups. This situation continues to worsen and is expected to
persist for months or even years before normalcy occurs.
This disruption, however, provides us
with an opportunity to reimagine teaching and learning so as to create an
equitable and humanistic learning ecosystem for all. Barriers and structures
that have resisted much needed change are now in disarray, offering the chance
for transformative improvements.
We seek to begin this reimagining
through a series of interactive conversations of emerging trends, disruptive
policies, programs, and initiatives, and often controversial, murky, and
unspoken topics.
Silver Lining for Learning is a weekly live conversation among a panel of visionary experts
about the future of education. The weekly panel includes at least three
co-hosts and one or two invited guests for each episode.
Hosts:
Curtis Bonk,
Professor of Instructional Systems Technology, Indiana University
Chris Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in
Learning Technologies at the Harvard Graduate School of Education
Scott
McLeod, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, University of
Colorado Denver
Punya Mishra,
Professor and Associate Dean of Scholarship and Innovation, MLF Teachers
College, Arizona State
Yong Zhao,
Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Education, University of Kansas
and Professor in Educational Leadership Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Silver Lining for Learning is broadcast live on
YouTube Live from 5:30 to 6:30pm US EDT on Saturdays and archived at silverliningforlearning.org.
The conversations are carried out via Zoom. Summaries of SLL discussions are also
published in ECNU Review of
Education, an open-access peer reviewed education.
Labels: Coronavirus crisis, educational change, learning, online learning, reimagining learning, revolution, silver lining |
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Big News! Distance Ed Founder and Father Michael G. Moore to receive honorary degrees from UW–Madison |
| Tuesday, March 10, 2020 |
Fantastic news....one of the founders and fathers of the field of distance learning, Dr. Michael G. Moore (Wikipedia), to be given an honorary doctorate in May at the University of Wisconsin (Michael's alma mater and mine too).
The last time I saw Michael was August 2016 at the Wisconsin Distance Teaching and Learning Conference in Madison (see picture above and below...Michael is in front).
Read this article from March 9, 2020.
V. Craig Jordan, Michael G. Moore to receive honorary degrees from UW–Madison, Doug Erickson, University of Wisconsin-Madison News : https://news.wisc.edu/v-craig-jordan-michael-g-moore-to-receive-honorary-degrees-from-uw-madison.
I am delighted to have been asked to provide a support letter for such a distinction. Below are three paragraphs from my six page support/nomination letter:
"Ironically,
I arrived in Madison for graduate school in January 1986, which was just a few
months prior to when Dr. Moore last taught a summer course at UW-Madison as a
visiting professor. In retrospect, I truly wish that I had met him during the
months in which we overlapped and had enrolled in his graduate seminar in
distance education as it was the only such graduate level course in the United
States, and perhaps the entire world, at the time. My mistake! As the enormous
explosion of online and blended forms of learning revealed a decade or two
later, Dr. Moore was far ahead of his time. Because of that missed opportunity,
I would not learn much about this field of distance education until after I
completed my doctorate, even though I took correspondence and television
courses in educational psychology to qualify for graduate school.
I
first got a chance to work with Professor Moore in 2002 when he was preparing
his first “Handbook of Distance Education” to be published the following year
by the prestigious Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. My colleague, Dr. Vanessa
Dennen, and I wrote a chapter on “Frameworks for
research, design, benchmarks, training, and pedagogy in Web-based distance
education” for that particular handbook. That timely and tremendously
successful volume was widely read and discussed. Dr. Dennen and I were
privileged to be asked to write a follow-up chapter in the second Handbook of
Distance Education that appeared in 2007. As an indicator of its popularity and
importance, the fourth edition of that handbook is scheduled to be published
later this year.
Four
years after his handbook first appeared, I was most fortunate that Dr. Moore
agreed to write the foreword to my own handbook, notably, “The Handbook of
Blended Learning: Global Perspectives, Local Designs,” published by Pfeiffer/John
Wiley in 2006. He was the first person that my co-editor, Charles Graham, and I
thought of for such a prominent and important task. As someone who had worked
in blended environments for decades, Dr. Moore was indeed the natural choice. Importantly,
he could explain the history and role of blended forms of learning across
society during the past couple of centuries."
There is more. There is always Michael Moore.
Labels: distance learning, DT&L, honorary doctorate, Michael G. Moore, Michael Moore, University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Distance Teaching and Learning Conference |
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Survey on MOOC Learners' Career Adaptability (please take) |
| Monday, March 09, 2020 |
Here a MOOC. There a MOOC. Everywhere a MOOC MOOC.
Ever
take a MOOC or part of a MOOC? If so did it change your life or some
small portion of it? Well, if so...two brilliant and hardworking alums
of my program in IST, Meina Zhu from Wayne State University and Min
Young Doo from Sejong University in Seoul, and I are conducting a study
on MOOC learners' career adaptability. The survey takes 10 minutes.
If
you take it, I'll send you 3 virtual cookies and 5 virtual dark chocolates from
Blomington Chocolate Company.
https://iu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2ui7VyliIiGAIZL
Meina Zhu, Min, and I have done a series of MOOC related studies; 3 of which are in press for 2020.
Doo, M. Y., Zhu, M., Bonk, C. J., &, Tang, Y. (online
2019, in press for print 2020). The effects of openness, altruism, and instructional
self-efficacy on work engagement of MOOC instructors. British Journal of Educational Technology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12882
Zhu, M., Bonk, C. J., &, Doo, M.-Y. (2020). Self-directed learning
in MOOCs: Exploring the relationships among motivation, self-monitoring,
and self-management. Educational
Technology Research and Development (ETR&D). 1-21. DOI 10.1007/s11423-020-09747-8
Doo, M. Y., Tang, Y., Bonk, C. J., &, Zhu, M.
(2020). MOOC instructor motivation and career
and professional development. Distance
Education, 41(1).
https://doi.org/10.1080/01587919.2020.1724770
And we have a whole bunch more MOOC studies recently out or in review. Labels: career adaptability, life change, massive open online courses, MOOCs, survey |
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