Last year I helped facilitate the Making Learning Connected Massive Open Online Collaboration (CLMOOC). We seven facilitators, supported by the team from NWP, aimed to remix the idea of a Massive Open Online Course in order to learn in community about making and learning, and to explore Connected Learning Principles.
In the video below, excerpted from a facilitator’s meeting last year, you’ll hear our team (minus the prolific Kevin Hodgson and Karen Fasimpaur) talking about a need we perceived while pouring through the online discourse of participants. Since we welcomed all to our collaboration, and encouraged them to come and go as they pleased during the 6-week professional learning experiment, we wanted to continue to orient and empower participants who had just logged on for the first time. In the meeting we agreed we needed to remind participants about the different digital spaces where they could post their creations and see the contributions of others. Of course, what did we know? None of us had led online learning quite like this before. The audience for our work was visible to us, since we could see interaction online. Our audience was also invisible to us, since we knew that in addition to being readily accessible online to anyone, what we published through newsletters, a blog site, and social network spaces reached about a thousand email inboxes.
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