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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.
Keeping the Doors Open, https://www.col.org/resources/keeping-doors-learning-open-covid-19. 
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.


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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.


·       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

Special guest: Dr. Shuangye Chen, Professor, executive editor, ECNU Review 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.


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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.



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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.

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Name: Curt Bonk
Home: Bloomington, Indiana, United States
About Me: I am a former accountant and CPA and a former educational psychologist. I am now Professor of IST at Indiana University and also adjunct in the School of Informatics. I founded and later sold SurveyShare. As president of CourseShare, LLC, I run around the world training instructors to teach online and give motivational talks about emerging learning technologies. I also write and edit books related to e-learning and blended learning. See bio and vita.

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