Session 4: Collaboration Principles and Practices 2011 1 Campus Technology Boston 2011 July 25
Feb 24, 2016
Session 4: Collaboration Principles and Practices
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Campus Technology Boston 2011July 25
Common Questions about Grouping and Teaming
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How do you group a class into two or three person teams quickly and easily?
What assignments work well? How do I/we structure assignments to ensure engagement? What is a practical step-by-step process for team assignments ?
What about grading and assessing? Learners don’t like to grade themselves or each other.
What are barriers to group work? How do learners communicate easily and well in asynchronous learning?
HANDS-ON WITH COLLABORATION
Let’s work on those questions…
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Let’s Collaborate!
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Collaboration Activities• Step 1: 2 min Group yourselves (3)
• Skills courses, such as writing, math, accounting, cataloging, programming
• Fact-laded content, such as chemistry, biology, history • Professional, character courses, such as ethics,
management, education• Step 2: Generate a team activity for your
course or a course similar to your course• Activity requires individual work and group work • Activity works towards a core concept
• Step 3: Record/capture this work on a sticky, in an email, tweet, or journal
• Step 4: Large group sharing
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Mission: Impossibl
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Collaboration & Community Concepts• Social presence and relatedness to others• Community support and caring for other’s success
and learning • Aligning with specific personalized learning
outcomes• Immersing learners into the content for multiple
exposures and manipulation with the content • Learner centeredness and customization• Faculty presence – social, teaching, cognitive • Students’ zones of proximal developments• Personalization and customization – skill and
content relevance
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Principles and
Practices
LARGE GROUP SHARING Let’s walk through these questions…
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Let’s Do a Discussion Wrap • “Discussion wrapping” is one of the most
important practices in online teaching and learning
• The Discussion Board is analogous to a face to face discussion
• What do you do to “close out” or “wrap up” a discussion?
• Some type of summary, close, or transitioning to the next activity
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Let’s do that now!
DISCUSSION WRAP ON COLLABORATION
What next steps are on your list?
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QUESTIONSCOMMENTS REMEMBERINGS?
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Bonus Slides
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Course Projects with a Longer Life…
• What projects or project elements might contribute to your course/program over time? Or beyond the institution? • Wiki on a topic that is new to discipline that is not in
textbook• Personal blogs about learner's journey through a
complex and challenging intellectual idea• Archive of projects that add to, organize, collect
resources for key topics• Wiki that collects intellectual biography/genealogy of
leading figures• Small team blogs on favorite media resources• Other ideas
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Characteristics of Meaningful Course Projects
• Serves learners’ needs and preferences• Encourages links to and learning of local,
national or global initiatives or issues• Serves the dept/program beyond the course • Serves society beyond the course, as in web
projects, wikipedia, develops knowledge of discipline
• “Tickles the imagination” – source of creativity and satisfaction
• Adds to a learner’s portfolio
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