Draft for Deans

1. Conversation about
A Domain of One’s Own
and Course Chords
7/16/2014
Diane Harris Cline

2. University of Mary Washington (Va.) 2012-13 pilot, 2013 all.
Emory (Ga.) “Domain Incubator” 2013, scale up 2014.
A Domain of One’s Own
“Making students
SysAdmins of their
own education”

3. Social life, taste, intellectual
digital identity

4. Learning Management Systems and e-portfolios
controlled by administrators or professors don’t
give students authentic experiences they will need
for the workplace. BlackBoard digital activities
disappear at the end of the semester; password
protected sites aren’t shareable or discoverable by
employers.
Helping students develop their digital identities --
how they portray themselves to the world -- is a
vital life skill.
The gist:

5. See http://umw.domains/
Talk to Jim Groom at UMW.
See June 3 2014 Educause for five
arguments against Learning Management
Systems
Check out Reclaim Hosting – cost per
student as low as $20 per year for URL and
hosting
For more information about
A Domain of One’s Own:

8. Integrative Learning: impact of collaboration
for faculty and students

9. Dan Pink “Symphonic Thinking”
Design – Moving beyond function to engage the
aesthetic sense, using design thinking to solve
wicked problems.
Story – Narrative, not just argument.
Symphony – Adding invention and big picture
thinking (not just detail focus).
Empathy – Going beyond logic and engaging
emotion and intuition.
Play – Bringing humor and light-heartedness to
discovery and learning.
Meaning – the purpose is the journey, connecting
classroom work with the world.

10. Course Threads

12. The capstone requirement of the Course Threads
program is a presentation at a Course Threads
symposium. The goal of the symposium is to provide a
forum for reflection on your experience in the program.
Film, essay, short talk, poster, or digital exhibit
End of year course threads
symposium

13. How do they keep track of it?

14. Chords

22. Example: Under Citizenship
and Leadership theme