ist africa - professional development in a network era

The Power of Collaborative Learning

>> For professional development

Workshop 10c, 21May 2010 IST-Africa 2010

AGENDA

EFQUEL Innovation Forum 2009: Laying the foundations for your University 2.0

ICDE/EADTU Conference: Envisioning a new kind of university

eLearning Africa 2009: Towards a University 2.0

Use e-learning to enhance access to education to students from diverse backgrounds and locations.

E-learning as a tool for transformation

Makarere, Uganda

SAIDE, South Africa

Yaoundé I, Cameroon

Cape Town, South Africa

E-learning can improve the quality of learning.- fit for the knowledge economy- student-centered- collaborative- flexible- participatory- global

Changing teaching & learning practices

Continuing the discussion online

Stay connected! • Exchange experience • Get support • Discuss the way forward

Collaborative Learning

• Using peers was traditionally limited to f2f meetings

• Technology has changed the way for people to be together

www.science-connect.net/?q=forum/115

Online conferences for Professional Development

Tony Carr

Centre for Educational Technology

University of Cape Town

Rethinking Conferences

Online conferences: Key Challenge

“attempting to construct equivalence between online and face to face conferences is difficult as the medium offers an entirely new way of “doing” conferencing one which is not widely exploited because we don’t really know how”

Laurillard (2006)

e/merge 2008

224 participants

11 African countries

5 continents

31 discussion forums

30 live online meetings

Meeting at the Boundaries

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Different ways to participate

“Some lurked, some dropped occasional pearls of wisdom, and others left footprints of their visit everywhere. Some were online permanently, others parachuted in and out for concentrated times, and some multiplied themselves virtually.´

e/merge 2006 participant

Special Event

• Time bound

• Disruptive

• Intense

• Celebratory

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IST-AfricaTriangulating Our

Professional Development: Learning from Adjacent Practices

Nancy WhiteFull Circle Associates

Seattle, WA nancyw@fullcirc.com @NancyWhite (Twitter)

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http://onlinefacilitation.wikispaces.com/Triangulating+for+Professional+Development

All materials in this session are Creative Commons, Attribution license

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Disciplinary knowledge (university, formal programs)Experiential knowledge

Adjacent knowledge

DISCOVERY…

Alone... isolated

Hopefulness…support

Connection

Innovation…

External Validation

How?

• External support person(s)

• Learning Connection to a domain-

related network or community

• Intentional external validation

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