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Learning online can be a lonely process

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35 Step Theory (Salmon, 2000, 2002, revising 2012)

1 Access & Motivation

2 Online Socialisation

3 Information Exchange

4 Knowledge Construction

5 Development

Learning online in MOOCs and SPOCs can be a lonely process

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Beyond SalmonBeyond Salmon’’s s

five stepsfive steps

We Prefer COOCs

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Vision essential

• Sharing experience and expertise

• Passionate about digital technologies in teaching and learning and to promote cultural understanding and democratic participation

• ‘Oh brave new world that has such people in IT’

Miranda, The Tempest, Shakespeare

http://www.mirandanet.ac.uk/ Click ‘Join’

‘One day courses in computers are waste of time’.

• Founded in 1992 with x 5 members with Toshiba Laptops. Took 3 months to connect them online!

• website and member profiles in 1994 like Face Book;• 800 members in 80 countries who are International policy

makers, teachers, teacher educators, researchers and commercial developers;

• Free to join but members become Fellows by writing an article of 2,000 words or multimodal equivalent in order to share their knowledge with other professionals. High web stats because professionals value the open resource policy

• Members have access to the extensive archives of debates• Funding: non profit making: the website, online forums,

seminars, workshops and projects run by members are funded by international partner companies and government agencies

JPC

Founded in 1992: approximately 800 members in 80 countries

MirandaNet is ‘Like a medieval guild for educators’ Wenger 1998

Spans national, cultural, commercial and political divides

An innovative and inclusive forum for professional educators in industry, research, policy

Partnership with industry and Government at the heart of the research, development and evaluation processes that underpin and support good practice in teaching and learning

Individual learning patterns are celebrated through action research strategies and peer e-mentoring.

Dissemination and publication central to the Fellowship process.

Fellows who share their experience and expertise build a professional knowledge base about the use of advanced technologies in transforming teaching and learning.

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What is an online teacher community?How does learning work in an informal community

of practice in contrast to a formal course ?

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Salmon – step six– working collaboratively to influence policy and practice

Working together in liminal space on creating new knowledge that has not been verified for examination purposes

Depends on the spontaneous or formal development of E-Moderators and E-Facilitators who support the learning activity

conduct

Agreed concepts relying on logical development New knowledge being created in a collaborative iterative process

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The definition

Weaving together individual evidence to create professional theory and practice

used to influence policy

Largely text based

Research through textual analysis and

identifying the knowledge creation process

Haythornthwaite, C. (2007) ‘New International Theories and Models Of and For Online Learning.’ Chicago IL, USA, First Monday. http://firstmonday.org/ Last accessed 29th July 2009.

Step Seven: beyond textCollaborative learning in liminal space

MirandaMod- an unconference

The learning space has diversified, become more democratic and capable of absorbing global voices: •wikis; •video streaming; •Google hang-outs; video conferencing; •concept mapping; •Twitter stream back channel. •www.mirandanet.ac.uk/mirandamods/

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Informal learning spaces

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Collaborative knowledge construction and dissemination

Remotely authored multidimensional concept maps

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Partners

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MESH – mapping education specialist knowhow

Learning Designer

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