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Embracing Uncertainty: Collaboration as learning
Dave Cormier
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http://xkcd.com/1021/
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4 Kinds of Uncertainty
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/tojosan/176759844
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Simple Challenges
(Audience response eg.)1.How do I get a study permit? - one page
reply and attach the document2.Where to find work on campus? 3.Students not checking their email4.How many courses am I allowed to take?
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Bad Good
Email Google docs
Invent new ways of doing things every time
Establish best practices
Collaborate with no one
Collaborate across campus
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Complicated
(Audience response)1. Email2. Working with parents and
guardians3. Collaborate on university wide
initiatives4. Financials
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Bad Good
Consultant’s report Project plan
Do what another university did
Follow good research practices
Make it a student project
Collaborate with experts
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Chaotic
(Audience response)1. Disgruntled student/parent 2. Flu outbreak3. Violent crime
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Bad Good
Wait Act
Ignore the results Follow up with another response
Do this often Use it as a last resort
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Complex
(Audience response)1. Social media and student services2. Special Needs students3. Organizational culture
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Bad Good
Look for ‘the answer’ Experiment
Try only one thing Iterate
Follow an expert Collaborate with peers.
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3 key trends
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Massive Open Online Courses
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Internationalization
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• Last year in the Atlantic provinces… International students – 9,692 (+1,204)
• Vietnamese Students Earn Online High School Diplomas Through The University of Texas at Austin
• Racial Politics
• EAL (English as an additional language)
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India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_Railways_Network_Connectivity_Map_with_cities_and_population_density.png
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Analytics
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http://www.slideshare.net/sbs/learning-analytics-dream-nightmare-or-fairydust
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Albany Technical College: The Student Tracking and Retention Services (STARS) Program is designed to serve high‐risk students by personally connecting them with counselors… The STARS program has increased the retention rate to 87% compared with rates prior to this intervention (68.3%), and STARS has also increased Academic Affairs and Student Affairs collaboration while generating new ideas and ways of helping students. http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/NGLC003.pdf
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Ok Dave… so what?
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Community as curriculum
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Rhizomatic learning:Learning the things you can’t be told
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”Successful health services in the 21st century must aim not merely for change, improvement, and response, but for changeability, improvability, and responsiveness.”Coping with complexity: educating for capabilitySarah W Fraser, Trisha Greenhalgh. 2001
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“When you finally come to grips you can't solve today's problems using present methods, you take the lead to venture to the Complex Domain. As leader, you initiate a search and rally followers to find a new solution that will change the paradigm.”Change Management or Change Leadership?Gary Wong, Cognitive Edge Network 2010
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2 CommunitiesOne that didn’t work and one that did
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Emerge project – a support program designed to help people collaborate
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Prize oriented – “the problem was, after the money was awarded we had the community, we had the place, but they had no reason to communicate.”Lawrie Phipps - interview
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“the culture rewards individual work”Lawrie Phipps - interview
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Edtechtalk: Collection of weekly webcasts from educators. For educators.
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So how do we do it well?
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Make the right kind of decision
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Be responsible for your own learning
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Share
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1 Final Point
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When the community is your curriculum, you become the expert
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