Sue Beckingham Assistant: Dennis McGrath

1. #FDOL131
unit 3: collaborative learning and communities
Sue Beckingham
18 March 13, 7-8pm(GMT)
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Chrissi

2. drawing together:
opportunities of
online learning

3. unit 3
Collaborative Learning and Communities
Rationale: Proponents of collaborative learning have long
heralded the power of well managed group-based interaction as
a means of promoting positive interdependence, individual
accountability, social skills, and group processing. This third unit
will encourage learners to explore aspects of collaborative and
community learning especially in relation to networked online
spaces for learning, personal learning networks and
environments and discuss the relevance of peer learning and the
development of learning communities in the context of self-
directed and self-organised learning within and beyond
institutional boundaries (formal, informal and non-formal
learning).
Chrissi

4. unit 3: activities
• Google community discussions
• Learning together in PBL groups
• Autonomous learning opportunities
Chrissi

5. Collaborative Learning and Communities
Sue Beckingham MA FSEDA FHEA
@suebecks
Flexible, Distance and Online Learning #FDOL131

6. Wears multiple hats
• MUM
Chief Cook and Bottle washer
• STUDENT
Second Masters : MSc Technology Enhanced
Learning Innovation and Change
• EDUCATIONAL
DEVELOPER
Fellow of SEDA Staff and Educational
Development Association
• LECTURER
Professional Communication and Digital
Skills

8. Learning Experiences

9. Eaton 2010 http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED508254.pdf

11. What would you add?

12. Is it so easy to label?

13. It can happen in mid sentence when
Where Learning Happens you interrupt the program for
http://markmcguire.net/2012/08/18/where-learning-happens/
a message
from one sponsor
It can happen out in public places or another.
alleyways and funny spaces
It can happen at a party
underneath and in between
once I met a guy who told me how
locations where you’ve never been
sub atomic particles romance
before.
with partners rooms away
.
that made my day.
It can happen on an airplane
.
at 30,000 feet above the ground
It can happen in a pub
you’ve found the person sitting
an angel at the bar sharing whisky
next to you has lived the life you
while a stranger tells
might have.
a history of the world
.
in six glasses.
It can happen walking down the street
.
you meet someone you haven’t seen
It can happen when you go to bed
in ages who tells you
and in your head you find
everything
an alleyway at 30,000 feet
before the light changes..
where faster than light neutrinos are
dancing the night away.
Mark McQuire 2012 .
And it all makes sense.

14. Haiku 俳句
collaboration
make learning
communities
creative and fun 5-7-5

15. Fun self-directed and self-organised ‘informal’
experiential learning

16. ‘Formal’ Tutor-Led Experiential Learning

17. Tutor as Facilitator
Vygotsky

18. Thinking about your own learning
experiences what are the pros and
cons of each?

19. Connectedness
"online" indicates a state of
connectivity, while "offline" indicates a
disconnected state.

20. Dennis McGrath http://technogogical.wordpress.com/

21. Connectedness

22. mentionmap

24. Technology removes boundaries such as
language, time and geographical distance

25. However my first experience....

26. The principal goal of education is to
create men [and women] who are
capable of doing new things, not
simply repeating what other
generations have done - men and
women who are creative, inventive
and discoverers.
The second goal of education is to
form minds which can be critical, can
verify, and not accept, everything they
are offered.
Piaget
We need to learn to take risks, to
challenge and above all find fun in
learning

27. comments & questions
Chrissi

28. FDOL131 updates
PBL groups
6 in total
working in PBL groups
be organised
capture your actions
keep your facilitator informed
think about how are you going to share your findings at the end of unit 3?
FDOL131 community space for feedback
unit 4: supporting learners
March 25 – April 5 (2 weeks)
Lars

29. Lars

30. COOL FISh
Facilitator:
Lars

31. #FDOL131
next webinar
unit 4: supporting learners online
Dr Keith Smyth
Tuesday, 2 April 13, 7-8pm (GMT)
Thank you for
joining us today
and see you online
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32. #FDOL131 organisers
Chrissi Nerantzi Lars Uhlin
Academic Developer Educational Developer
University of Salford, UK Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
FDOL organiser FDOL organiser
PBL facilitator PBL facilitator