SCoPE

This page provides access to "a practitioner-oriented summary of the book [Digital Habitats] that you can download for free. It is couched as an "action notebook" in the sense that it summarizes dozens of practical steps you can take to support your community" (Action Notebook, ¶1, 2011.06.16).

The purpose of this seminar is to share, learn, and discuss strategies and current projects in the area of automating the instructional design process. With the explosion of web 2.0, rapid e-learning design, online simulations, and other modes of training, it seems the time is right to pull together a tool that can aid the instructional designer in fitting the right type of training for the given purpose of the instruction. Is an electronic performance support system (EPSS) for designers desirable, possible? What should be included as the focus of any automated tool to instructional design?

EdTechWeekly #186 March 6, 2011 Hosts: Dave, John, and Jen Topics: Learning Analytics, OER University, Using OER Texts

"Musings on the edtech frontier" (blog tagline)

"online meeting platform . . . for realtime collaboration"

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Slides for the April 11, 2011 kick off session for the SCoPE seminar: Online Conferences: Professional Development for a Networked Era http://scope.bccampus.ca/mod/forum/view.php?id=8732

"During this 2-week book discussion we will share experiences and advice on how to plan or participate effectively in an online professional development conference."

Anderson and Anderson (2010) characterize online continuing professional education (CPE) conferences as "structured, time[-]delineated" events involving "distributed population[s]" in synchronous or asynchronous use of "online communication and collaboration tools" (p. 15). They suggest that these characteristics may enhance "both the quantity and quality of interaction" in formal CPE sessions, thanks to possibilities for preliminary access to conference materials, world-wide participation, and asynchronous as well as real-time interpersonal engagements (p. 22), which in turn may promote constructivist and connectivist modes of learning within professional communities of practice (pp. 7-10). Anderson, Lynn; & Anderson, Terry. (2010). Online Conferences: Professional Development for a Networked Era. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing

Calgary Science School's ideas about student's digital publishing

Amazing example of an inquiry based project "How does the Renaissance provide ideas for improving Calgary today?"

"The focus of this Art of Teaching seminar will be Engaging Students in Inquiry Learning. Each week of this 3-week seminar will be launched with Art of Teaching: Engaging Students in Inquiry Learning videos and web conference in Elluminate. "

"This is a story about a number of very different teachers working in very different contexts with one shared intent: To create powerful experiences for their students through systematic building of inquiry learning in their classrooms."

A LearnCentral "webinar with Wayne Mackintosh on designing an "Open Educational Resources" (OER) university and creating free learning for all students worldwide" (Event Details, Detail[ed] Description, ¶1).

"The [OECD's OER] project analyses and maps the scale and scope of initiatives regarding "open educational resources" (OER) in terms of their purpose, content, and funding" (Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) - Open Educational Resources, ¶2).

"OEDb currently contains reviews of 1,025 programs from 83 accredited online colleges. Unlike other leading online education directories, our database only lists accredited online colleges ..." (Welcome to the Online Education Database, ¶1).

"Learning & Knowledge Analytics 2011 - LAK11 - is an open course that will be offered from January 10 - February 20, 2011. LAK11 serves as an introduction to the growing field of analytics in teaching, learning, training, development, and organizational knowledge. "

"The European Commission is seeking input on the promotion and validation of non-formal and informal learning. The implications of an EU-policy on this issue would be far-reaching, especially if it were to devise an accreditation initiative or  framework evaluating informal learning experiences (e.g., through those gained via open courses such as the ones offered by George Siemens, Alec Couros, Jim Groom, Stephen Downes, David Wiley, & Dave Cormier)." It will be interesting to follow this as a possible model for informal learning at SCoPE and other PD opportunities. Related to the "Evaluation Practices for Informal/Self-Paced Adult Learning" seminar: http://scope.bccampus.ca/mod/forum/view.php?id=1691

"a case study and formative evaluation..."

"Teaching our students to be strategic learners is therefore one of the most valuable skills we can give them." Resource shared by Roxanne Russell: http://scope.bccampus.ca/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=16188&parent=65968