Sunday, December 02, 2018

Global Education Highlights (weekly)

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Sunday, November 25, 2018

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Sunday, November 18, 2018

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Sunday, November 11, 2018

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Sunday, November 04, 2018

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Sunday, October 28, 2018

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Sunday, October 14, 2018

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Sunday, October 07, 2018

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Thursday, September 27, 2018

What is open?

The u!magine Professional Learning Series on Open Education kicked off in August with the first session asking 'What is open?'

Along with colleagues Val Peachey, Leanne White we discussed processes, practices and pathways for open education and open learning.

As the current Open Pathways Design Leader at Charles Sturt University my world revolves around gaining a deeper understanding of the research and literature around 'open' and the emerging practices, including open learning design and pedagogical changes.

This interconnects nicely with my PhD work as well.....but that is another blog post. As always, out of time...so you are invited to access and review review the presentation slides, and to watch the 30-min session embedded below.


 

Read more about the Open Education series on the u!magine website and plan to join us virtually!

Sunday, September 16, 2018

Global Education Highlights (weekly)

  • I like this approach to information/digital literacy - afficacy OK, this is a summary of what informs our information literacy approach in #digipo. I tried to balance out being provocative with showing how our approach flows from traditional concerns. https://t.co/tZ3Dnucgw4 Online digital information literacy “Learn to value efficacy over accuracy”. ... this makes so much sense https://t.co/FeXRJBUkO7

    tags: digipo education digitalliteracy

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Sunday, September 09, 2018

Global Education Highlights (weekly)

  • The survey sought the views of 500 private sector business executives and 500 recruitment managers on the graduate learning outcomes they deemed as most important. These included oral communication, critical thinking, ethical judgment, working effectively in teams, working independently, self motivation, written communication, and real-world application of skills and knowledge.

    tags: education skills future learning

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Sunday, September 02, 2018

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Sunday, August 26, 2018

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Tuesday, August 21, 2018

New global projects - Flat Connections gears up for another great semester

To all global educators and global collaborators reading this blog, just wanted you to know that Flat Connections has a number of excellent online global collaborative projects for K-9 classroom levels kicking off in September and October this semester.


We are offering the following projects (links to individual websites):






Read more on the August 2018 Flat Connections Global News.

Watch the video below where Julie and Chris explain Flat Connections' collaborative goals and share project outcomes.



Read more on the Flat Connections website.

We hope to see you in a global project this semester!

Julie Lindsay
Founder and CEO, Flat Connections

Sunday, August 19, 2018

Global Education Highlights (weekly)

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Sunday, August 12, 2018

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Sunday, August 05, 2018

Global Education Highlights (weekly)

  • Student pondering on validity and practice of digital scholarship - what does it mean?

    tags: digitalscholarship education INF537

  • We can see it all unfold in a fascinating short history of the application of new technologies in higher education by Martin Weller in a recent article for EDUCAUSE, the community platform for IT leaders and professionals. Weller also runs a popular blog in which he expands on developments in IT and their meaning. In his history, Weller selects a different educational technology, theory, or concept for each of the years from 1998 through 2018 with the aim of examining “what has changed, what remains the same, and what general patterns can be discerned from this history”. Twenty years ago he says, the web – accessed through dial-up modems – “had reached a level of mainstream awareness”. There was “a general sense of puzzlement about what it would mean” with some academics considering it all to be a fad.

    tags: education technology HigherEducation

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Sunday, July 15, 2018

Global Education Highlights (weekly)

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Friday, July 13, 2018

T21C Conference - Getting started with online collaborative learning

Just a quick post to share my presentation/workshop at the T21C event this week. A small local conference at Hillcrest Christian College on the Gold Coast.

What a lovely school! We were in purpose built classrooms with a socratic approach to learning and furniture arrangement.

It was good to catch up with friends (and former students of mine in the MEd Knowledge Networking and Digital Innovation degree at CSU) Jacques du Toit, and Yvonne Barrett. Jacques is the Assistant Director of Academic Performance and Innovation at Hillcrest, and Yvonne is a teacher librarian about to head back out of Australia to take up a position in an international IB school in Turkey.




My session was about 'Getting started with online collaborative learning: Tools and strategies to move from 'local to 'global'.




Sunday, July 08, 2018

Global Education Highlights (weekly)

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Monday, July 02, 2018

IUT Conference 2018 - Holistic approaches to online collaborative learning design

Last week I attended the 43rd Improving University Teaching Conference held on the Charles Sturt University Port Macquarie campus. As an international conference it attracted representatives from Australia, Scotland, China, South Africa, USA, Canada, Fiji and more..... This was a small and very friendly event and over the three main days I did three presentations - each one with a slightly different format.

This post focuses on the 'Paper presentation' which was a 45 minute session where I talked about my topic based on a slideshow, and then we had discussion and questions in the room. The outcome of this session is an academic paper (yet to be finalised!). Here are some essential artefacts to learn from in the meantime. Thanks to Judy O'Connell for tweeting this out during the session!



Abstract
When designing online learning consideration should be given to how a community can be built around subject content and objectives and how students will interact with the academic and with each other. The institutional learning management system affords a safe and reliable albeit often less than inspiring space for learning. New digital learning environments using the affordances of Web 2.0 technologies support connected and collaborative pedagogies. Holistic approaches with a focus on multimodal design extends learning into online spaces for improved engagement, provision for response choices (text, audio, video), online publishing and media creation while fostering new pedagogical approaches.

Digital learning environments using the affordances of Web 2.0 technologies support holistic learning design for connected and collaborative pedagogies.



Essential Discussion
This session shared research-based holistic implementation of Web 2.0 tools (tools that allow for multimodal communication, interaction and collaboration as well as online publishing and media creation), or the ‘collaboration web’ (Harasim, 2017) as a design feature for online subjects in higher education. Emerging pedagogies based on participatory and collaborative online learning were examined with current examples of learning space design using Web 2.0 tools shared via the Case Study of INF537 - Digital Futures Colloquium. This is the capstone subject I co-wrote and teach at Charles Sturt University as part of the Master of Education degree in Knowledge Networking and Digital Innovation.

These three essential understandings frame the presentation content:

  1. Subject and learning design in conjunction with management of Web 2.0 tools is crucial. There needs to be a pedagogical purpose for each tool and transparency around why and how each tool is implemented. Design must respect student time and workflow, and not all activities may be mandatory.
 
  2. Teacher presence in conjunction with online agility and flexibility is a key factor. The ideal approach is for academics to be in the online spaces with the students. Teacher presence is the glue that holds this holistic approach together.
 
  3. Open scholarship in conjunction with networked and digital learning should be the norm when using Web 2.0 tools. Leaving a digital legacy is a goal afforded by Web 2.0 tools. It can be exciting to see where the learning grows and interconnects with others beyond the class (experts, peers etc.).


Harisim shares how Web 2.0 has  drawn attention to online social communication and collaboration and the invention and adoption of social networks that marks the keystone for Web 2.0. (Harasim, 2017). The overall instructional design and active facilitation including the selection of effective tools and design of meaningful assignments is the best use of Web 2.0 tools (Koehler, Newby & Ertmer, 2017). According to McLoughlin and Lee (2010), pedagogical change requires knowledge of appropriate teaching methods and awareness of the learner experience while using Web 2.0 technologies and social media.

Veletsianos (2016) believes that sociocultural factors make technologies and practices emergent. Participatory technologies like online social networks and blogging have become an integral part of open scholarship. However, he questions what effect online socialisation with peers via social networking sites might have for online learners, as well as the pedagogical affordances of these sites. Tensions between Web 2.0 use and educational practice in higher education are shared in research by Bennett, Bishop, Dalgarno, Waycott and Kennedy (2012) where more successful outcomes saw alignment between educational and Web 2.0 practices and highlighted the potential learning benefits from effective use, through student content creation and sharing. Lock and Johnson (2016) discuss the need for careful consideration of technology to support student completion of collaborative learning tasks, and at the higher education level students should be empowered to make those decisions. Kuit and Fell (2010) found that constructivism underpins the use of Web 2.0 technologies, and the role of the academic in this process is pertinent to foster judgement, synthesis, research and collaborative practices.




As part of the INF537 Case Study discussion one of the tools shared is FlipGrid. This is a vital communication and collaboration tool that has recently been bought out by Microsoft. Kudos to FlipGrid creators for their inspiration and we will wait to see what MS does with the tool - so far it has been made FREE to educators but with the implementation of a mandatory password on each Grid. My thoughts about that as an educational imposition will be shared in a subsequent blog post.....

Meanwhile you can access the INF537 FlipGrid where students discuss preliminary ideas for their Research Assignment.  Password is INF537-17




REFERENCES 
Bennett, S., Bishop, A., Dalgarno, B., Waycott, J., & Kennedy, G. (2012). Implementing Web 2.0 technologies in higher education: A collective case study. Computers & Education, 59(2), 524-534.

Harasim, L. (2017). Learning theory and online technologies (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.

Koehler, A. A., Newby, T. J., & Ertmer, P. A. (2017). Examining the Role of Web 2.0 Tools in Supporting Problem Solving During Case-Based Instruction. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 49(3-4), 182-197.

Kuit, J. A., & Fell, A. (2010). Web 2.0 to pedagogy 2.0: A social-constructivist approach to learning enhanced by technology. In R. Donnelly, J. Harvey, & K. O’Rourke (Eds.), Critical design and effective tools for elearning in higher education: Theory into practice (pp. 310-325). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Lock, J., & Johnson, C. (2017). From Assumptions to Practice: Creating and Supporting Robust Online Collaborative Learning. International Journal on E-Learning, 16(1), 47-66.

Veletsianos, G. (2016). Digital Learning Environments. In N. Rushby & D. Surry (Eds.), Handbook of Learning Technologies (pp. 242-260): Wiley.





Sunday, July 01, 2018

Sunday, June 24, 2018

Global Education Highlights (weekly)

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Sunday, June 17, 2018

Global Education Highlights (weekly)

  • This course offers theoretical and real-world insights into why and how globalisation can be used as a conduit for sustainable development. Globalisation is associated not only with significant economic development opportunities but also with pressing environmental and social challenges. Through readings, videos, discussions and interactive learning activities you will examine and critique the potential of globalisation to drive sustainable development. You will also explore and reflect on the impact of the UN Sustainable Development Goals on current and future economic, environmental and social trends.

    tags: education sustainability globalization

  • @cogdog is Alan Levine - and in this blog post he talks about the history and motivation for purchasing and using domain names. Good to read for motivating 'brand of one's own'

    tags: education brandofme domain

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Sunday, June 03, 2018

Global Education Highlights (weekly)

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Sunday, May 27, 2018

Global Education Highlights (weekly)

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Sunday, May 20, 2018

Global Education Highlights (weekly)

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Sunday, May 13, 2018

Global Education Highlights (weekly)

  • The suggestion that teaching and learning can be significantly improved by better supporting our teachers is vital and should not be overlooked. In particular, there is growing evidence that teacher collaboration can lead to more satisfied teachers while producing better outcomes for students. Great read to get to before #uwclearn Development Week @louiebarnett123 @GeoAlchin1 @Elfdaws @UWCSEAEastGlopo https://t.co/qtaRPCS8Ey

    tags: uwclearn education collaboration DesignThinking Gonski

  • Excellent blog post. Dewey would remind us that being a citizen means more than just following rules. A citizen is part of a community, and being a citizen of a community means interacting with each other, supporting one another, and working together to make our corner of the world a better place. Isn’t it time for our digital citizenship lessons to start reflecting some of his ideals? @julielindsay - this may interest you #digcit https://t.co/PGmVFITSc2

    tags: digcit education digitalcitizenship

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Sunday, May 06, 2018

Global Education Highlights (weekly)

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