M e t a - M o d e r a t e d C o u r s e D e s i g n

N a d a D a b b a g h , P h D & J o e M c C a h i l l , M Ed

• Living Online • Learning Online • Meta-Moderation • Meta-Moderated Course Design • Meta Moderated Course Management

Agenda:

Management Methodology

Our Soc ia l L ives

Social Media Stats for 2012

• >800 million active Facebook users • 11% of the world’s population has a Facebook acount • There are more facebook users than cars (800m vs 750) • 225,000,000 Twitter users • 190,000,000 tweets are sent on average per day • 55% access Twitter via mobile • 135,000,000 LinkedIn users • YouTube has 490 million unique visitors per month • Google+ was the fastest social network to reach 10 million users at 16 days • 3,500 photos are uploaded each second on flickr • Flickr hosts over 5 billion images • Instagram reached 13 million users 13 months after launch • There are over 150,000,000 photos uploaded with instagram • Foursquare sees 2,000,000 check-ins a week • 15 million people have Foursquare accounts • Wikipedia hosts over 17 million articles • There are over 91,000 Wikipedia contributors

Summary

• We live and think different • So we teach different.

Pre-Internet

(pre 1969)

Thinking Machines Proto- Learning Networks

Computer-based conferencing Hypertext

Memex (Vannevar Bush) oNLineSystem (NLS) (Englbart)

Galactic Network (Licklider) Xanadu (Nelson)

Internet

(1969-1992)

Computer-Mediated Communication Networked Supported Collaboration

Personal Computing Environment Groupware

ARPANET USEnet

Virtual Communities (The Well) EIES (Electronic Information Exchange System)

(Groupware – 1977) CSCW (computer supported cooperative work)

Web 1.0

(1992-2000)

World Wide Web Groupware-based social interaction

Open source movement Communities of practice

CSILE (Knowledge Forum) CSCL

MUDs/MOOs Knowledge Webs

Web 2.0

(post 2000)

Social Software Platforms Collective intelligence

Network effect User-generated content

Architecture of participation Personal Learning Environnements

Wikipedia Virtual Worlds (Second Life)

MMORPG MOOC

Experience & Resource sharing tools Folksonomies

Social Bookmarking

Phases Social Computing Context Examples

T e c h n o l o g i c a l & T h e o r y

Pedagogical Models, Constructs & Learning Theories

Learning Technologies

Learning Interactions & Social Practices

P e d a g o g i c a l E c o l o g y o f L e a r n i n g E n v i r o n m e n t s

Behaviorist pedagogical models and theories: SRR, PI, Gagne’s events of instruction, information processing theory, CAI

Broadcast Technologies

Directed instruction, drill and practice, linear instruction, tests, etc.

P e d a g o g i c a l E c o l o g y o f D i s t a n c e L e a r n i n g

Constructivism, distributed cognition, CoP, open/flexible learning, knowledge networks, ALN

Dialogical, collaborative,

exploratory technologies

Collaboration, reflection, articulation, social negotiation

P e d a g o g i c a l E c o l o g y o f D i s t r i b u t e d L e a r n i n g

Informal learning, immersive learning, mobile learning, personal learning environments (PLE), social learning environments (SLE)

Web 2.0 enabled Social Media

blogging, podcasting, vodcasting, social bookmarking, tagging, folksonomic classification

P e d a g o g i c a l E c o l o g y o f S o c i a l L e a r n i n g E n v i r o n m e n t s

A Personal Learning Environment or PLE is a potentially promising pedagogical approach for both integrating formal and informal learning using social media and supporting student self-regulated learning in higher education contexts. There is strong evidence that social media can facilitate the creation of PLEs that help learners aggregate and share the results of learning achievements, participate in collective knowledge generation, and manage their own meaning making.

T h e P L E a s H o m e B a s e

Dabbagh, N., & Kitsantas, A. (2012). Personal Learning Environments, social media, and self-regulated learning: A natural formula for connecting formal and informal learning. The Internet and Higher Education, 15(1), pp. 3-8. Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.iheduc.2011.06.002

Activities Social Media Use

33.1% (general) 30.7% (coursework) Wikis

29.4% (general) 49.4% (coursework) SNS

24.3% (general) 33.4% (coursework) Video-Sharing Sites

11.6% (general) 37.6% (coursework) Blogs

4.3% (general) 40.2% (coursework) MicroBlogs

2.8% (general) 30.5% (coursework) Social bookmarking Tools

2010 ECAR (EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research) Study of Undergraduate Students and IT (http://www.educause.edu/ecar)

Trend, meet C lassroom. C lassroom, meet Trend.

Benef i ts of eLearning

Sca lable & F lu id

Meta-Moderation

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Meta-Moderated Course Design What are your goals, resources and limitations?

Your Content

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Your Social Space

The Role of the Teacher

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The New Learning Ecosystem

LMS at one end and a student’s own collection of applications, tools, and websites at the other (individual digital ecosystem) Constantly morphing public toolbox Skills to manage toolbox Some institutions are enabling students to take control of their learning ecosystem by helping construct a personal infrastructure where they select the tools that are most useful and effective for their own learning

EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). (May 2012). 7 Things You Should Know About Navigating the New Learning Ecosystem http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7084.pdf

• Reality is increasingly online and collaborative • Education must be proportionately so • Meta-moderation facilitates scalable, flexible, social,

open-ended educational experiences

• Content + Social Space

• Use it if/as you need it.

Summary: