Improving Teaching/Learning

Solving the Meta Problem An Initiative to Leverage Collective Intelligence to improve Teaching/Learning

Our Inspiration/Guidance Came From
Doug’s Ideas on:
Augmenting Human Intellect
Collective IQ and
Improving Improvement
A Deloitte Study on:
How People Learn
Paulson and Terry Anderson
Seven Freedoms of Learning
Peter Norvig:
Teach Yourself Programming in 10 Years
Oliver Steel
The Software Food Pyramid
The students @ NTTF, Chennai

How People Learn (from a Deloitte Study)

Seven Freedoms of Learning

Bootstrapping Learning Community
Started with a Social Network on Ning
Built A Simple DKR of software resources using a wiki
Adopted a Blended Learning Model
Started Bootstrapping Model for Students as Teachers
Tools – Social Network, Wiki, Blog, Discussion Forums
Human System – Face-to-face interactions, Coaching, Soft-skills

What We Found
In some cultures, people are :
Shy to talk about their achievements
Not sure how to share learning
Poor communication Skills (writing, presenting)
Need to teach them
Techniques for sharing information/knowledge
How to Structuring Information and Knowledge
How to perform Structured Argumentation
How to think in terms of Meta Problems
Challenges, Recognition, Rewards work
We need to make learning more fun, more social

Research Areas
What is the Co-Evolution Model for Improving Teaching and Learning?
How do you build Improvement Communities from current Social Networks?
What does a meta community look like for Teaching/Learning?
How do we leverage OpenContent, OpenData, Semantic Technologies to build Improvement Communities?
How do we contextualize content for specific use?
How do we build Scalable, Manageable, Global Scale Learning Communities ?
How do we leverage Collective Intelligence of Students and Teachers?

We Have a Lot to Do This is just the beginning

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