The document discusses the role of educators as experience designers in the context of modern technology and education. It emphasizes the need for intentional design in coursework to engage students as active collaborators and highlight diverse learning paths. Additionally, it explores the importance of community connection and the use of various technologies to facilitate a global learning environment.

1. Teacher as Experience Designer
Eric Hudson
Dean of Instruction, Global Online Academy
eric@globalonlineacademy.org
@ericGOA

2. Who I was… …and Who I am

3. Who GOA Faculty Are…

4. I. The Mindset of the Experience Designer
II. Experience Design in Action
III. Experience Design and You

5. The Mindset of the Experience Designer
“Design allows us to make sense of our technology.”
—Scott Dadich, Editor-in-Chief
Wired Magazine

6. Wayfinding

7. Simplifying a Complex System

8. 4
Teachers Have Always Been Wayfinders

9. Thomas Friedman
NY Times January 30, 2013
(Referring to The World Is Flat,
2005)
“...When I wrote [The World is
Flat], Facebook, Twitter, cloud
computing, LinkedIn, 4G wireless,
ultra-high-speed bandwidth, big
data, Skype,... iPhones, iPods,
iPads and cellphone apps didn’t
exist, or were in their infancy.”

10. 5
Demand for New Skills
Asia Society Global Competencies:
Investigate the World
Take Action
Weigh Perspectives
Communicate Ideas
Apply Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Expertise
(source: http://asiasociety.org/global-competence)

11. Danah Boyd
“Streams of Content, Limited
Attention: the Flow of Information
through Social Media” Educause
Review Online
“Making content work in a
networked era is going to be
about living in the streams,
consuming and producing
alongside ‘customers’ —
consuming to understand,
producing to be relevant…”

12. Danah Boyd
“Streams of Content, Limited
Attention: the Flow of Information
through Social Media” Educause
Review Online
“We need tools that allow
people to more easily
contextualize relevant
content regardless of
where they are and what
they are doing…”

13. Experience Design in Action
“Give the geese what they want.”
—Eduardo Sousa

14. 6
“Give the Geese What They Want”

15. 7
Coursework Interaction
Experience
Design

16. 7
How do you make students your
collaborators in generating
content and meaning?
Design
What do you want students to do? What learning
paths do you need to design?
Interaction
How do you create an environment in which
students engage as members of a global
learning community?
Coursework

17. 7
Scott
“9/11 in a Global Context”
Nan
“Medical Problem Solving”

18. 8
Israel-Palestine Oral History Project
Design
Intentionality: To see more clearly how historical
events impact real lives and leave lasting impressions
on individuals, families, and communities.
Structure:
• Identify someone who has been affected by events in Israel-Palestine.
• Set up a time and place to conduct a 20-30 minute interview with this person.
• Conduct, record, and upload the interview to soundcloud.com.
• Post the audio recording to the Wiki project. Include a photo of the interviewee,
a short bio, and excerpts from the interview.
Support: General Tips for Interviewing, Beginning List of Interview Questions, Technical

19. 8
Design
Global Health Project:
Intentionality, Structure, Support
The goals of the project are to:
1. Explore a medical problem prevalent to
where the student lives.
2. Conduct intensive research.
3. Develop a plan that will help inform or
serve others related to this problem.
4. Share an area of interest with others.
5. Reflect on the global or regional
similarities/differences.

20. 8
Interaction
Multimedia
Discussion
Forum

21. 8
Interaction
Peer Feedback
“The Audience Effect”

22. 8
Coursework
Student-generated Course Content
“Not only did she give great insight in our recorded
interview about her childhood and eye-opening army
experiences, but we also spoke for about an hour
afterward, talking about various matters such as 9/11,
values and morals, and possible peace outcomes
between Israel and Palestinians.”

23. 8
Coursework
Connecting with Community

24. 8
Curating Technology
• Learning Management
System
• Mobile Devices
• soundcloud.com
• Web-based Research
• Learning Management System
• Video Tool (Student Choice)
• Video Chat (Skype, Hangout)
• Web-based Research

25. Experience Design and You
“The learning is the center of our world, not the teaching.”
—Grant Wiggins

26. 8
What Next?
Potential Action Items:
• Start with “One Thing.”
• Investigate support options at your school
and beyond.
• Nurture a Personal Learning Network
(PLN).
• Survey your “customers.”

27. THANK YOU
Eric Hudson
Dean of Instruction, Global Online Academy
eric@globalonlineacademy.org
@ericGOA