7. Collaboratives, Collectives and Clouds
Online learning is disruptive - in the "Clayton Christensen" sense. It changes the field for all, just as the personal computer changed the world of mainframe and mini-computers of the 1970s. University of Illinois Center for Online Research and Service Associate Director Shari Smith has studied, presented and published in the area of online learning for inter-institutional collaborations over the past half dozen years. She will lead our discussion this week.
Live presentation
On Thursday, August 11, at 2:00 pm Eastern, 1:00 pm Central, noon Mountain; 11:00 am Pacific time in the U.S. - 7:00 pm London time, we will host a live Web conference on the weekly topic. We plan to provide hundreds of streams of the "live" Thursday sessions in both flash format and non-flash (mobile) format so that participants can view the panels. A Twitter back channel will also be encouraged for ongoing discussion of the panel. The hour-long conversation will be recorded and the URL for the recording will be made available the following day, August 12.
Joining us for the live session will be:
Shari McCurdy Smith, Moderator, Associate Director, Center for Online Learning, Research and Service, University of Illinois Springfield
Karen Vignare, Director , Project Design and Implementation, Michigan State University
Linda C. Smith, Professor and Associate Dean Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois Urbana / Champaign
Live Sessions
Slides from the Live Session: http://goo.gl/5c70v
Live panel discussion sessions will be held each Thursday at 2:00 pm eastern daylight, 1:00 pm central daylight, noon mountain daylight, 11:00 am pacific daylight and 7:00 pm London time. They may be viewed live online at:
http://www.uis.edu/technology/live/edumooc.html
Your screen will look like this:
The audio of the panel and slides will appear on the left of the screen
For this session, we will be using the Twitter hashtag #edumooc7. The #edumooc7 twitter back channel feed will appear center screen
A Twitter compose gadget will appear on the right for those with Twitter accounts to upload tweets
The session will be recorded and be made available online for those who wish to view later.
Resources
You are encouraged to visit these resources as we examine the topic of the week. Our weekly lists are not comprehensive, but rather they are a sampling of the range of resources available for each weekly topic. All of the sites we list are open; that is, they do not require paid subscriptions. Please take advantage of your eduMOOC Google Group to discuss these sites and recommend additions.
Blogs and Wikis
- WCET eLearning Consortia Wiki https://elearningconsortia.pbworks.com/w/page/17339268/FrontPage
- Michael Sampson on Collaboration http://currents.michaelsampson.net/
- #collaboration http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23collaboration
- Online Collaboration http://twitter.com/#!/search/online%20collaboration
Video
- Clay Shirky on institutions vs. collaboration TED Talks Filmed Jul 2005; posted Jul 2008
Sites
- WCET List https://elearningconsortia.pbworks.com/w/page/17339252/Consortia-Index-Spreadsheet
- Web-based Information Science Education (WISE) http://www.wiseeducation.org/
- Art & Science Collaborations, Inc (ASCI) http://www.asci.org/
- Access Excellence http://www.accessexcellence.org/
- Committee On Institutional Cooperation
- California Colleges.edu http://www.californiacolleges.edu/
- Union of Concerned Scientists http://www.ucsusa.org/about/
- Great Plains Interactive Distance Education Alliance http://www.gpidea.org/
- New Century Learning Consortium Ning
Ezines, Journals and Articles
- Czajkowski, J. M. (2007) Leading Successful Interinstitutional Collaborations Using the Collaboration Success Measurement Model
- Industry-University Research Collaborations; Report of a Workshop http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=5579
- Lasseter, Marie Rodgers, (1998) Inter-Institutional Planning of Online Programs in Higher Education
- McCurdy, Shari and Ray Schroeder (2006) Achieving Diversity Through Online Inter-Institutional Collaborations
- Collaboration Benefits from Great Plains IDEA
- Steps for a Successful CourseShare Partnership from the CIC
- The Great Plains Model for Inter-Institutional Distance Education Academic Alliance'
- Rena M. Palloff and Keith Pratt - from 20th Annual Distance Teaching and Learning Conf. Proceedings; Learning Together in Community: Collaboration Online http://www.oakland.k12.mi.us/Portals/0/Learning/04_1127.pdf
- Teresa Dobson, et al; EDUCAUSE 2007 Conference Proceedings; Models for Collaborative Online Learning: Pedagogy, Design, and Epistemology http://www.educause.edu/Resources/ModelsforCollaborativeOnlineLe/162188
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