By Dan Hickey
I am crunching out the final report of the Open Badges Design Principles Document Program and it pushed me to dig more deeply into the research on "knowledge evaporation" in the design of complex software architectures. It makes me wonder if current efforts to build badges into the larger, more complex learning management systems are about to run into the wall that complex software systems always run into.
Monday, November 3, 2014
Monday, October 27, 2014
Fostering a Self-Sustaining Professional Learning Community in Online Professional Development
by Rebecca C. Itow
Since 2011, I have been studying
ways to help teachers adopt and adapt new practices that value learners’
experience and expertise as they explore new concepts. Often, this necessitates
that teachers find ways to reconcile their experience and existing beliefs
about knowledge & learning with the underlying assumptions of the new
practices so that they can be worked into curricular designs. In Spring 2013,
an opportunity arose to redesign the English Language Arts (ELA) courses of a
university-run online high school. While the high school was ranked
the #2 online high school in the United States, they wanted to update their
pedagogy both to attend to the push to foster connected learning in participatory
spaces and address accreditors’ concerns about their use of a correspondence
model. Dan Hickey suggested I take on this task, enabling me to aid the school
in redesigning their courses and to realize the potential of the research I had
been doing for the last two years.
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