Chaos and Learning: What we learn from MOOCs about Professional Development Sharing Digital Stories, and Flipping Classrooms

Vance Stevens Plenary at GLoCALLAhmedabad, India, Oct 11, 2014

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No need to take notesAll my slides are online:http://slideshare.net/vancesAnd you can read a text version here: http://adVancEducation.blogspot.com

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Parsing the AbstractYou will find the following abstract for my talk at http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/2186507-plenary-session-4Chaos and Learning: What we learn from MOOCs about Professional Development and Flipping Classrooms (and sharing digital stories)

• First MOOC conceived in 2008 as a model of connectivist learning theory • Proponents George Siemens, Stephen Downes, and Dave Cormier seeded revolution in

re-thinking how learning occurs in highly networked digital age • Since then, MOOCs tend to fall between extremes

• cMOOCs • and xMOOCs.

• Differentiated in part in the way they approach their subject matter; i.e. the degree to which they• expose participants to the chaos they are likely to encounter in the real world, • engage learners in resolving that chaos

• This talk examines what MOOCs can teach us about the role of chaos in our own learning, and suggests how we can apply MOOC models to our contexts of facilitating our students’ learning, and in learning from one another in our ongoing professional development.

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Connectivism: A learning theory for the digital age (Siemens, 2004)

http://www.elearnspace.org/Articles/connectivism.htm

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Structured learning? Irrelevant?

In this YouTube video, Siemens says at min 1:13http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqL_lsogeNU&feature=youtu.be

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Irrelevant!!? Who said that?

http://www.amazon.com/Why-School-Education-Information-Everywhere-ebook/dp/B00998J5YQ

http://www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity

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Siemens on Chaos

Howard Reingold interviews George Siemens: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMfipxhT_Co&feature=related

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Siemens on Chaos"I’m not aware of any research actually that says linear structure produces better outcomes than more chaotic meandering structure. Our intent … is to argue that

• the experience of learning, making sense of that chaos, is actually the heart of the learning experience,

• but if an instructor makes sense of that chaos for you and gives you all the readings and sets the full path in place for you then

• you are eviscerating the learner’s experience

• because now you’ve made sense of them and all you’ve told them is walk the path that I’ve formed.

• When it comes to complexity I’m a great fan of letting learner’s hack their way through that path and getting the value of that learning experience and that sense-making process.”

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Stephen Downes WiAOC 2007http://downes.ca

http://www.slideshare.net/Downes/personal-learning-the-web-20-way

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What else do you want to know?

• Almost 500 posts about MOOCs: http://www.downes.ca/mooc_posts.htm

• Downes, S. (2012). Connectivism and Connective Knowledge: Essays on meaning and learning networks. Stephen's Web: My eBooks. Available http://www.downes.ca/files/Connective_Knowledge-19May2012.pdf.

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Downes on Chaos

From this YouTubeNoves maneres daprendre i treballar en la societat xarxa http://youtu.be/wyaeTvGQDsA

“What we see is chaos”

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Dave Snowden: Cynefin

http://youtu.be/N7oz366X0-8

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Dave Cormier on Complex / Chaotic

http://learning2gether.net/2013/01/20/dave-cormier-discusses-cmooc-and-multimooc-co/

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Sus Nyrop on Chaos Navigation

http://www.vancestevens.com/papers/evonline2002/wiaoc2007help.htm

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Vance Stevens on Complex / ChaoticThere is no such thing as an English teacherhttp://tesl-ej.org/ej28/int.html (Cairo, 2004)

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For more detailed information

Take a side-tour: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/chaos-in-learning

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Incidentally, what’s a MOOC?

Basic MOOC history• Wiki view• Wikipedia• Starting with pre-history of MOOCs• This page, click here

http://nova.campusguides.com/c.php?g=112312&p=725994

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Massive / Open / Online / Course• Open / online: Takes advantage of abundance vs. scarcity• Massive: Scales

Stephen Downes 2012; posted in Alan Levine: http://cogdogblog.com/2012/09/21/just-ds106/

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Coping with cMOOCs (Cormier)

http://youtu.be/r8avYQ5ZqM0

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One way cMOOCs scale: RSS• Enroll your blog on a MOOC• Tag relevant posts with the MOOC tag• The script aggregates ALL just tagged posts

from ALL participants• Displays them in newsletter format• Participants can then interact with each other

by commenting on each other’s posts

http://grsshopper.downes.ca/about.htm

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Understanding of cMOOCs is ineffable

http://x28newblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/12/rhizo14-opml-feedlist/

https://p2pu.org/en/courses/882/rhizomatic-learning-the-community-is-the-curriculum/

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Martin Hawksey’s TAGSxplorer

http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/?key=tDHgQeSbHR3fcvN81EHnxQQ&sheet=oaw

http://hawksey.info/tagsexplorer/ connective cloud of all Twitter posts RHIZO14

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Figuring out TAGSxplorer via MOOC

http://evomlit.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/revisiting-the-question-of-tagging/

I want a connective cloud of my own tag … How? (who you gonna call?)

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I just happened to see this …

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Learnification?? Huh? <click>

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WritingMatrix: The blog project

http://youtu.be/NHjlCY0BCNo http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com

The digital story

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There are also xMOOCs

http://degreeoffreedom.org/xmooc-vs-cmooc/

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Thrun and Norvig’s xMOOC on AI

http://moocnewsandreviews.com/ultimate-guide-to-xmoocs-and-cmoocso/

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xMOOCs (Thrun went from Stanford to found Udacity)

https://www.udacity.com/courses#!/All

https://www.edx.org/course-list

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Siemens on cMOOC vs xMOOC

Siemens coined the term xMOOC in a 2012 post ("xMOOC?" http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2012/07/25/moocs-are-really-a-platform/)

• "Our MOOC model emphasizes creation, creativity, autonomy, and social networked learning.

• The Coursera model emphasizes a more traditional learning approach through video presentations and short quizzes and testing.

Put another way, • cMOOCs focus on knowledge creation and generation • whereas xMOOCs focus on knowledge duplication."

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Flipped learning in MOOCs

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom

http://www.wired.com/2012/03/ff_aiclass/all/

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Connected Courses (happening NOW)http://connectedcourses.net/

Embodies some of best elements of MOOCs and online learning• Jim Groom - Edupunk, domain-of-one’s own, http://ds106.us/• Alan Levine - http://50ways.wikispaces.com to tell a digital story• Howard Rheingold – Smart mobs, Net Smart, Mind amplifiers

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“You’re not on the edge if you’re not falling off”

http://rheingold.com/

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Alan Levine

http://50ways.wikispaces.com/

Jim Groomhttp://umw.domains/

http://cogdogblog.com/

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http://ds106.us

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Why digital stories?

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GLoCALL HoA work-shopOct 9, 2014

http://learning2gether.net/2014/10/09/learning2gether-with-glocall-2014-ahmedabad-india/

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Info and archives: http://learning2gether.net Vance Stevens, vancestev@gmail.comhttp://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2014/10/what-we-learn-from-moocs-about.html