Designing Student-centered Learning

Experiences

1.Agenda for the Day2.GOA and its Mission3.Teaching as Wayfinding

9:40-10:30: Workshop Round 1 (Choose One)Best Practices in Instructional DesignThe Power of VideoClass Tour: Designing Student-centered AssessmentsClass Tour: Crowdsourcing - Students as Content Curators

10:30-10:40: Break

10:40-11:30: Workshop Round 2

11:30-12: Closing Presentation/Reflection Activity

GOA and its Mission

Our Mission

1500+STUDENTS

75+TEACHERS

60SCHOOLS

To replicate in online classrooms the intellectually rigorous programs and excellent teaching that are

the hallmarks of its member schools

To foster new & effective ways, through best practices in online education, for students to learn

To promote students’ global awareness and understanding by creating truly diverse,

worldwide, online schoolroom communities

MISSION-DRIVEN, NOT-FOR-PROFIT

The Student Experience: A Typical Week

SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT

Teachers & students are located across

multiple times zones

Students commit 5-7 hours per weekto a single course

Classes gatherasynchronouslywith no set time

Students collaborateon projects

and discussions

The Global Online AcademyStudent Experience

Global Perspectives

Academic Excellence

Passion-driven Learning

Meaningful Relationships

Blended Learning

Blended Learning

Teaching as Wayfinding

Wayfinding

Simplifying a Complex System

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Teachers have always been guides in worlds they have designed…

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Asia Society Global Competencies:Investigate the WorldTake ActionWeigh PerspectivesCommunicate IdeasApply Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Expertise(source: http://asiasociety.org/global-competence)

…but the world is complex and designed by others.

danah boyd “Streams of Content, Limited Attention: the Flow of Information through Social Media” Educause Review Online

“Making content work in a networked era is going to

be about living in the streams, consuming

and producing alongside ‘customers’

— consuming to understand, producing to

be relevant…”

Demand for New Skills

Proliferation of tools

Thomas Friedman NY Times January 30, 2013(Referring to The World Is Flat)

“...When I wrote [The World is Flat], Facebook, Twitter, cloud computing, LinkedIn,

4G wireless, ultra-high-speed bandwidth, big data,

Skype,... iPhones, iPods, iPads and cellphone apps

didn’t exist, or were in their infancy.”

The Role of the Teacher

danah boyd “Streams of Content, Limited Attention: the Flow of Information through Social Media” Educause Review Online

“We need tools that allow people to more easily contextualize

relevant content regardless of where

they are and what they are doing…”

Learning Experience

Teacher Wayfinder

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Design

InteractionCommunal Work

Experience

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How do you make students your collaborators in generating content and meaning?

DesignWhat do you want students to do? What learning paths do you need to design?

Interaction

How do you create an environment in which students engage as members of a learning community?

Communal Work