we don't need no educator
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We don’t need no educatorThe role of the teacher in today’s online education
Stephen DownesUtdanningskonferansen 2013
15 February, 2013, Bergen, Norway
The Entertainer
“…the single most important factor affecting student achievement is teachers.”
http://www.epi.org/publication/books_teacher_quality_execsum_intro/
So we’re told, anyway…
In fact there numerous factors: parental income & educational attainment, social factors & expectations, social equity, genetic predisposition…
That aside, if we just look at educators, we see dramatic changes in the traditional role of the educator… as though the educator is disappearing
1.Pull apart the roles of the educator in an online world
2.Identify those roles in the context of the massive open online course
3.Provide practical examples and applications
Today’s Three-fold Task:
A historical trend…
… will continue today
The context….(connectivism)
• Educators are no longer ‘the experts’
• Learning is no longer about content transfer
• Teaching takes place in an authentic environment
• Learning consists of engagement, experimentation and communication
Today
http://www.complexityexplorer.org/
A course about complexity…
Six Thousand Courses
http://myeducationpath.com/courses
http://www.mooc.ca/
CCK08
http://connect.downes.ca/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?page=thedaily.htm
http://wwwapps.cc.umanitoba.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=20
2300 students
2800 students
1800 students
3000 studentshttp://edfuture.net/ http://change.mooc.ca/
http://connect.downes.ca/
Other MOOCs Courses
cMOOC vs xMOOC
networks contentstasks
http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/2012/08/three-kinds-of-moocs/
http://ds106.us/history/
https://www.ai-class.com/
https://www.coursera.org/
The Roles….
Teacher asExpert Teacher as
Learner
Teacher as Coach
Teacher as Designer
1
http://www.downes.ca/opml.xml
http://reader.google.com
http://www.tweetdeck.com/
#hashtag
http://learnonline.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/10-minute-lecture-george-siemens-curatorial-teaching/
http://ds106.us/
http://change.mooc.ca/newsletter.htm
http://bit.ly/sfnEF6
2. Designer2
http://grsshopper.downes.ca/
http://ds106.us/ds106-radio/http://www.downes.ca/edradio.htm
http://bit.ly/qxkXTX
3
http://www.feynmanonline.com/
http://www.downes.ca/post/44760
http://www.scoop.it/t/edumooc/
https://plus.google.com/
http://www.slideshare.net/choconancy/change11-mooc-session-october-31
http://change2011inbendigovictoriaaustralia.blogspot.com/
The Conversationalist
4 expert4
http://www.downes.ca/me/presentations.htm
http://change.mooc.ca/recordings.htm
http://cogdogblog.com/
http://www.livestream.com
http://fm.schmoller.net/
https://www.ai-class.com/
http://erikduval.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/the-speed-of-tech-owd11/
http://www.learninganalytics.net/
http://www.downes.ca
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