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Teaching Online for Beginners

for Very Smart Dummies

A Curriculum for Online “Course,” MOOCow, Coaching/Mentoring

MOOCow= Massive Open Online Course Or Whatever

Here's what we'll try to do today May 31, 2013 [links to key docs below]:

• Discuss, Clarify, Confirm
• Process:  Fishbowl, collaborative public planning today
• Principles:  "Open";  2 paths (Guided & DIY);  minimal logins, registrations
• Structure:  MOOCow and/or Coaching [Mentoring, Consulting] - alpha, beta, ... July, Sept 2013?
• Content:  Curriculum, resources, ...
• Decide
  

  
• Go/No Go?
• Little Red Hen Principle - Who will help to bake this bread?
  

Developing a MOOCow? Who owns what/when? See: Coursera’s Terms of Service. Discuss 5/31 2pmET re: Teaching Online tlt.gs/frlv FridayLive!

Here are some questions prompted by 3 sections of Coursera's Terms of Service  [as of May 30, 2013] Any organization hosting/supporting online courses, MOOCs, "or whatever" must deal with similar issues - some of which raise genuinely new challenges! THIS IS NOT A COMPLAINT! 

• ONLINE COURSE AND CERTIFICATIONS
  Not allowed to attempt  to get a Coursera course recognized by college or university?
• PERMISSION TO USE MATERIALS
  Everything on the site owned by Coursera - even in a course developed by faculty member unaffiliated with Coursera?  What if faculty member developed and taught similar course first for some college/university?  What if faculty member who developed and taught a Coursera course wants to offer a similar course later at a college or university?
• When using online materials as part of taking a Coursera course, cannot share them with colleagues?  
  
• USER MATERIAL SUBMISSION
  Anything you submit (upload, post) as a student in a Coursera course can subsequently be used by Coursera in any way at all.

Some excerpts from Coursera's Terms of Service  [as of May 30, 2013]:

Prep for free online "fish bowl" 5/31 2pmET re: Teaching Online for Beginners & Smart Dummies. Help plan tlt.gs/frlv TLTGroup FridayLive!

Excerpts (below) and full article & Bain's book (links below) good prep for our planning session this Friday, 2pmET May 31.   Free Registration.
Leaders:  Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, and still confirming other Silver Cloudian stalwarts!

"Whereas best practices are clearly necessary for good teaching, we do not think that they are sufficient for excellent teaching. If becoming an outstanding teacher merely entails implementing recommended best practices, then there would be many more outstanding teachers than there currently are. Clearly, there are good and bad (or more and less effective) ways to implement these practices. There seem to be things that cannot simply be borrowed, copied, or plugged into courses. 

"(1) Fostering student engagement

• Create a community of learners
• Foster student-to-faculty and student-to-student interaction
• Judicious and strategic use of humor
• Creative and engaging use of videos, chats, podcasts, wikis, and discussion forums
• Use blogs to facilitate reflective thinking, collaborative learning, and knowledge construction

"(2) Stimulating intellectual development

• Create natural critical learning environments
• Generate provocative acts, questions, statements
• Reflect on students’ inaccurate and incomplete preconceptions or mental models 
• Use technology to create engaging and authentic content

"(3) Building rapport with students

• Understand one’s student population and determine the amount of help needed 
• Let students get to know their teacher
• Use introductory video or other self-disclosure resources
• Keep written records of communication that include relevant student information 
• Be flexible with deadlines and due dates
• Provide individualized feedback on assignments and activities"

Above excerpted from "What the Best Online Teachers Should Do," by T. M. Brinthaupt, L. S. Fisher, J. G. Gardner, D. M. Raffo, and J. B. Woodard, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37132 USA, Tom.Brinthaupt@mtsu.edu , as published in  MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, Vol. 7, No.4, December 2011 
See below for abstract.
 Article based on What the Best College Teachers Do, Ken Bain, Harvard University Press; April 30, 2004 

Abstract & 3 additional summary excerpts below

Teaching Online for Beginners & Smart Dummies. Help plan. FridayLive! 5/31 2pmET free online "fish bowl" tlt.gs/frlv

Teaching Online for Beginners: Designing a MOOCow for Very Smart Dummies. 
Help from/for? Silver Cloudians
"Fish bowl" planning session in TLT Group's FridayLive! 5/31 2pm ET Free Registration

Leaders:  Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, and still confirming other Silver Cloudian stalwarts!

TLT Group Silver Cloudians and friends and colleagues will continue planning how best to support faculty who are just beginning to move deeper into online teaching. The goal is to have something [MOOCow, coaching, mentoring, ...] ready to offer by September and to find at least one institution interested in receiving this kind of support/resource.

For a better idea of what we're developing, see planning documents:

Why voice in MOOCows? “..best narrators can make a good book take wing..” begin free tlt.gs/7FsMOOCow now June7 next synch session

See excerpt below re why we include voice in our MOOCow [MOOC Or Whatever]. Not too late to register (free) for "Seven Futures of American Education schMOOC/MOOCow" Based on book: The Seven Futures of American Education: Improving Learning & Teaching in a Screen-Captured World by John Sener
Next free online synch session June 7, 2013 2pm ET

"If you spend a lot of time with audiobooks, you start paying close attention to the people who read them, and probably develop a stable of favorites. Listeners know that the best narrators can make a good book take wing

 and a merely decent book grow more engaging.

TGIF: 7FsMOOCow: DIY or Guided Sequence, You Decide

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Twenty-first issue, Volume Six	TLT Group TGIF 5.28.2013
From Group World Headquarters	Seven Futures of American Education schMOOC/MOOCOW It’s not too late to jump in. Step one: Register Here Step two: Start Here Step three: Communicate with fellow schMOOC/MOOCOW’s here This link will take you to a video introduction of the MOOC Consider an institutional membership in TLT. Institutional Subscription entitles everyone at your institution to TLT group activities, services, and resource materials.  And individual membership is free to all within your institution. You will find more information on our website. Sally Gilbert, Director of Administration, can answer any questions you may have sallygilbert@tltgroup.org
	“7 Futures Amer. Educ...Screen-Captured World” MOOCow tlt.gs/7FsMOOCow Slides/links/chat transcript from May 17 #tltg7FsMOOCow TLT Group FridayLive! 7 Futures of American Education schMOOC/MOOCow Putting Experience First - Join FridayLive May 24th Review/summary Sener’s 7 Futures Amer. Education: Improving.. Screen-Captured World. For MOOCow tlt.gs/7FsMOOCow
	Silver Cloudians are busy designing learning opportunities for faculty transitioning to online teaching. The planning will continue on Friday and into July with a September launch in mind. Send your ideas for the Designated Learner Social Media Application Series to Beth Dailey (dailey@tltgroup.org).  The fall schedule is being developed.
	FridayLive Teaching Online for Beginners: Designing a MOOCow for Very Smart Dummies. Help from/for? Silver Cloudians: "fish bowl" planning session. May 31, 2013 2:00pm Eastern Time Leaders:  Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, Margaret Driscoll,Dale Parker, Charles Ansorge, Micheal Dabney and others Free to all. TLT Sliver Cloudians will continue planning how best to support faculty transitioning to online teaching. The goal is to have something ready to offer by September. Take a look at the following planning documents. Transitioning to Teaching Online: A Curriculum for an Online “Course” for.... TLT Beginners Advice: Margaret Driscoll compiled this information from our last planning session.   We will also look at the model being used for the Seven Futures of American Education schMOOC/MOOCOW Google+ community Google site Up-coming  FridayLive! schedule: June 7 Seven Futures 2nd session “The Seven Futures Approach to IEQ: A Dialogue” June 14 Seven Futures 3rd session, “Modeling the IEQ Planning Process”   June 21 Seven Futures 4th session, “Sharing Your Plans, Reflecting on Your Experience” June 28 Review, Respond and Shape
MOOCs Round Three Seven Futures of American Education schMOOC/MOOCOW May 17 - June 21, 2013 Register Here Start Here Communicate with fellow schMOOC/MOOCOW’s here	You can still join the Seven Futures of American Education schMOOC/MOOCOW The series will began wih a live session on May 17th.  The recording of this session is available on the Central Course Communication page It will  conclude on June 21, 2013 and consist of four live synchronous sessions and four modules. This link will take you to a video introduction to the MOOC The schMOOC/MOOCOW* (Massive Open Online Course Or Whatever) will explore John Sener's book "The Seven Futures of American Education: Improving Learning & Teaching in a Screen-Captured World." The series will include these participation options ("paths"): guided sequence to enable participants to create an action plan for implementing one or more quality improvement strategies in their course, program, or institution. “do-it-yourself” (DIY)   approach which allows participants to learn what they wish by defining their own objectives and using available resources (both inside and outside the course) to attain them as desired. Course Schedule: Time Frame Event/Topic Friday, May 17, 2 - 3pm ET: Live Session: Getting Started: Getting to Know You, Us, the Seven Futures. Watch a recording of the session. May 17 - June 7: Module 1: Identifying Your Challenge                                    Module 2: Defining Quality Improvement: the Seven Futures Framework & You Friday, June 7, 2 - 3pm ET: Live Session: The Seven Futures Approach to IEQ: A Dialogue June 7 - 14: Module 3: Selecting Your IEQ Strategy Friday, June 14, 2 - 3pm ET: Live Session: Modeling the IEQ Planning Process   June 14 - 21:   Module 4: Preparing Your IEQ Action Plan Friday, June 21, 2 - 3pm ET Live Session: Sharing Your Plans, Reflecting on Your Experience                                  The series will also model several of the key strategies described in Seven Futures, including: learner-generated content (create an action plan and other content that you can use), event-anchored learning (participate in TLT Group's FridayLive! synchronous events to S‘anchor’ course activities), and impact assessment (opportunities to reflect on what you’re learning, mine insights, and assess their impact on you, your students, your colleagues...). NOTE:  *a “schMOOC/MOOCOW” is our version of a MOOC (Massively Open Online Course): schMOOC”  = “somewhat connectivist, hypothetically Massive Open Online Course” -- “somewhat connectivist” because the course offers DIY and other connectivist options but also offers more structure than a typical cMOOC. “hypothetically” Massive because the course is open to all but not likely to be huge.
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TGIF: 7fsMOOCow Join in NOW

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Twentieth issue, Volume Six	TLT Group TGIF 5.21.2013
From Group World Headquarters	Seven Futures of American Education schMOOC/MOOCOW started on Friday! It’s not too late to jump in. Step one: Register Here Step two: Start Here Step three: Communicate with fellow schMOOC/MOOCOW’s here This link will take you to a video introduction to the MOOC Consider an institutional membership in TLT. Institutional Subscription entitles everyone at your institution to TLT group activities, services, and resource materials.  And individual membership is free to all within your institution. You will find more information on our website. Sally Gilbert, Director of Administration, can answer any questions you may have sallygilbert@tltgroup.org
	“7 Futures Amer. Educ...Screen-Captured World” MOOCow tlt.gs/7FsMOOCow Slides/links/chat transcript from May 17 #tltg7FsMOOCow TLT Group FridayLive! 7 Futures of American Education schMOOC/MOOCow Putting Experience First - Join FridayLive May 24th Review/summary Sener’s 7 Futures Amer. Education: Improving.. Screen-Captured World. For MOOCow tlt.gs/7FsMOOCow
	Members Only Exchange Changing Roles in Online Teaching and Learning (This session is free to TLT Group Members Fee to others) May 22, 2013 2:00pm Eastern Time Leaders: Steve Gilbert, Beth Dailey, and others Register Here This session is free to TLT Group Individual Members.  ($75 to others) We have done a session on roles such as VOC.  In this session the plan is to talk of other roles such as that of a scribe, maybe even the designated learner.  There could be a designated questioner, naysayer, optimist, etc.  What else have people used or what else could be done. This is especially relevant to our MOOC creation and to our Silver Cloudians who we hope will take some of these roles as we proceed.
	May 24th advanced organizer. Trey Mireles returns to FridayLive on May 24th, Putting EAT (Experience, Apply, Teach) to the Test Register Here Three ways to participate: SHARE your experience implementing EAT. STUMP THE EXPERT: bring an instructional challenge for trey to design using EAT SHARE  an Animoto video you have created. It will be fun to share, learn from each other and hear more from Trey.   FridayLive! Putting EAT (Experience, Apply, Teach) to the Test May 24, 2013  2:00-3:00 pm ET - free to all.   Presenter;Trey Mireles Madison College The Experience-Apply-Teach instructional strategy focuses on using technology to introduce course concepts more vividly.  Testimonials from teachers who have used this strategy will be shared. You are invited to "stump the expert." Bring Trey an instructional challenge that you would like to solve. This link will take you to one person’s experience implementing EAT. In addition, people are invited to share Animoto presentations they have created. Contact Beth Dailey, dailey@tltgoup.org Up-coming  FridayLive! schedule: May 24 Putting EAT (Experience, Apply, Teach) to the Test. Trey Mireles, Psychology instructor, Madison College June 7 Seven Futures 2nd session “The Seven Futures Approach to IEQ: A Dialogue” June 14 Seven Futures 3rd session, “Modeling the IEQ Planning Process”   June 21 Seven Futures 4th session, “Sharing Your Plans, Reflecting on Your Experience” June 28 Review, Respond and Shape
MOOCs Round Three Seven Futures of American Education schMOOC/MOOCOW May 17 - June 21, 2013 Register Here Start Here Communicate with fellow schMOOC/MOOCOW’s here	You can still join the Seven Futures of American Education schMOOC/MOOCOW The series will began wih a live session on May 17th.  The recording of this session is available on the Central Course Communication page It will  conclude on June 21, 2013 and consist of four live synchronous sessions and four modules. This link will take you to a video introduction to the MOOC The schMOOC/MOOCOW* (Massive Open Online Course Or Whatever) will explore John Sener's book "The Seven Futures of American Education: Improving Learning & Teaching in a Screen-Captured World." The series will include these participation options ("paths"): guided sequence to enable participants to create an action plan for implementing one or more quality improvement strategies in their course, program, or institution. “do-it-yourself” (DIY)   approach which allows participants to learn what they wish by defining their own objectives and using available resources (both inside and outside the course) to attain them as desired. Course Schedule: Time Frame Event/Topic Friday, May 17, 2 - 3pm ET: Live Session: Getting Started: Getting to Know You, Us, the Seven Futures May 17 - June 7: Module 1: Identifying Your Challenge                                    Module 2: Defining Quality Improvement: the Seven Futures Framework & You Friday, June 7, 2 - 3pm ET: Live Session: The Seven Futures Approach to IEQ: A Dialogue June 7 - 14: Module 3: Selecting Your IEQ Strategy Friday, June 14, 2 - 3pm ET: Live Session: Modeling the IEQ Planning Process   June 14 - 21:   Module 4: Preparing Your IEQ Action Plan Friday, June 21, 2 - 3pm ET Live Session: Sharing Your Plans, Reflecting on Your Experience                                  The series will also model several of the key strategies described in Seven Futures, including: learner-generated content (create an action plan and other content that you can use), event-anchored learning (participate in TLT Group's FridayLive! synchronous events to S‘anchor’ course activities), and impact assessment (opportunities to reflect on what you’re learning, mine insights, and assess their impact on you, your students, your colleagues...). NOTE:  *a “schMOOC/MOOCOW” is our version of a MOOC (Massively Open Online Course): schMOOC”  = “somewhat connectivist, hypothetically Massive Open Online Course” -- “somewhat connectivist” because the course offers DIY and other connectivist options but also offers more structure than a typical cMOOC. “hypothetically” Massive because the course is open to all but not likely to be huge.
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