Readings:  http://connectedcourses.net/setting-up/

September 15, 2014 1 PM PST/3 PM CST/ 4 PM EST via Google Live Hangout.

Participants: Mike Wesch, Cathy Davidson, Randy Bass

Title: The End of Higher Education

Description:  As shrinking budgets, skeptical publics, and rising alternatives continue to threaten the end of higher education, we host this conversation as a contemplation of what the end – or purpose – of higher education should be.  We will also reflect on how individual teachers might find their own core reason for teaching a specific class, and ways to build buy-in to that reason among students.

Presenters will take questions via Twitter hashtag #ccourses

Live Event: Friday, September 19, 2014 @ 11 AM PT/1 PM CST/ 2 PM EST  

Blogside Chat with Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa, Authors of Academically Adrift and Aspiring Adults Adrift

Hosted by Mimi Ito

In their 2011 book, Academically Adrift, Arum and Roksa described the sobering reality that 45% of college students demonstrate very little learning during their first two years of college. They outline a shifting culture of higher education that increasingly prioritizes social and recreational campus life at the expense of academics and developing critical thinking, writing, and reasoning skills. Just released, Aspiring Adults Adrift reports on this same cohort of students as they entered the job market during the great recession. This new book paints a complex portrait of young people as they reflect on their lives and college experiences, analyzing the kinds of capacities they need to develop in order to thrive as adults. Join Mimi Ito in a conversation with the authors to discuss the implications of their research for our responsibilities as faculty and the purpose of our courses.

Presenters will take questions via Twitter hashtag #ccourses

Readings:

Your So-Called Education (NY Times)

Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses

Aspiring Adults Adrift: Tentative Transitions of College Graduates

Join Mimi Ito, Vera Michalchik, and William Penuel September 22, 2014 at 1:00 PM PSt. Post your questions and comments via Twitter using the #CCourses hashtag.

As educators who support connected learning experiences for our students, we often struggle to describe what we think are the deepest and most resilient learning outcomes that go beyond content mastery and skill development. Researching connected learning also involves similar challenges. We are beginning to develop research tools for documenting the features of connected learning environments, and capturing student experiences of social connection, self-expression, relevance, and interests that are at the core of connected learning. We will reflect on our ongoing research on connected learning, and offer a student survey tool that faculty can use to get at some of these broader outcomes.

Presenters will take questions via Twitter hashtag #ccourses

Where should it go? Let’s unconference about it! with Howard Rheingold

Date: Monday, September 29, 2013
Time: 4:30 PM PT/6:30 CT/7:30 ET

What is Social Capital? How does it shape educational contexts and experiences? How can educators be strategic in developing Social Capital and Professional Learning Networks to support connections and Learning? In this session, a range of scholars, practitioners, and educational designers will be sharing their perspectives and practices in uncovering, building, and cultivating social capital and networks of learners.

Participants
Kira Baker-Doyle – Assistant Professor of Education, Arcadia University. Author of The Networked Teacher.
Christina Cantrill – Senior Program Associate, National Writing Project & Director of NWP Digital Is project
Meenoo Rami – Teacher, Science Leadership Academy (Philadelphia, PA), Author of Thrive: 5 Ways to (Re)Invigorate Your Teaching
Howard Rheingold
Shelly Sanchez Terrell- Teacher Trainer, Instructional Designer, Author of The 30 Goals Challenge for Teachers & Learning to Go

Where should it go? Let’s unconference about it! with Howard Rheingold

Join us as we wrap up Unit 2 of Connected Courses with a webinar that will focus on how trust is built and rebuilt both on and offline.

Get involved in the discussion and ask questions during the live webinar by using the #CCourses hashtag via Twitter. 

The webinar features:

• Kira Baker-Doyle, assistant professor of education at Arcadia University and author of “The Networked Teacher”;
• Meredith Broussard, assistant professor of journalism and Temple Univeristy in Philadelphia;
• Ulrich Boser, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and author of “The Leap: The Science of Trust and Why It Matters” and “The Gardner Heist: The True Story of the World’s Largest Unsolved Art Theft”;
• Nishant Shah,  founder and director of research for the Bangalore-based Centre for Internet and Society; and
• Jonathan Worth, award-winning photographer, Coventry University professor and leading teacher of open-learning photography courses, including Phonar Nation.

Oct. 13, 10 a.m. PDT / 1 p.m. EDT, “Web Imperatives: Four Lightning Talks from Four Web Makers”

http://youtu.be/CUYI9N0FR6M

Web makers and university educators will discuss the World Wide Web and online literacy in two upcoming webinars that are part of the free online course, “Connected Courses.” The live webinars will take place Oct. 13 and 17.

This webinar features:

• W. Gardner Campbell, vice provost for Learning Innovation and Student Success and associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University
• Laura Hilliger, training and curriculum lead at Mozilla Foundation
• Kim Jaxon, assistant professor of English at Chico State
• Howard Rheingold, digital media expert and educator

Oct. 17, 10 a.m. PDT / 1 p.m. EDT, “What is Web Literacy? Threshold Concepts and the Possibilities of the Open Web”

http://youtu.be/-rdedm9k2fk

This webinar features:

• Patrick Berry, product manager at Build.com
• W. Gardner Campbell, vice provost for Learning Innovation and Student Success and associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University
• Laura Hilliger, training and curriculum lead at Mozilla Foundation
• Kim Jaxon, assistant professor of English at Chico State
• Mark Surman, Mozilla Foundation’s executive director
• Howard Rheingold, digital media expert and educator

Viewers are welcome to post questions and comments during the live webinars via Twitter using the hashtag, #CCourses.

Jon Udell is an author, information architect, software developer, and new media innovator–and he’s on a mission to bring the surprising effectiveness of “thinking like the web” to non-techies everywhere. Conversation moderated by Gardner Campbell.

#ccourses Tweets

Monday, October 27, 2014 8 AM PDT/10 AM CDT/ 11 AM EDT

via Google Live Hangout.

Participants: Lisa Nakamura, Elizabeth Losh, Anne Balsamo

Goals / Topics:

Feminist learning networks in and about Technology

The Case of the FemTechNet Collective

Describe the DOCC as alternative genre of MOOC

How is the DOCC a distributed learning network?

#ccourses Tweets

• SESSION #1 Readings
  • A Pedagogy for Original Synners, Anne Balsamo & Steve Anderson
  • The War on Learning, (MIT Press), Liz Losh
  • A Work of Feminist Technocultural Innovation: Creating an Alternative Genre of MOOC, Anne Balsamo
• Case Study #1:  FemTechNet’s DOCC: “Dialogues on Feminism and Technology”
  • Aims of FemTechNet
  • DOCC 2013 organization, process, and outcomes
  • Critical DOCC pedagogies:
    • Wikistorming
    • Keyword Videos
    • Object Exchange
    • Feminist Mapping
    • Selfie Network
    • Learning Games

• Live Dialogue:  Anne Balsamo, moderated by Liz Losh
  • Talking point:  3 things to have teachers think about when designing courses to be delivered on the web:  How NOT to be sexist and racist when designing web-based courses!

• Weekly Newsletter = New Materials posted on FemTechNet Digest Magazine

Reading / Background Material:

• The War on Learning, (MIT Press), Liz Losh
• “Beyond MOOC Hype,” by Ry Rivard, Inside Higher Education
• “An Open Letter to Professor Michael Sandel from the Philosophy Department at San Jose State University.”
• FemTechNet White Paper-  Transforming Higher Education with Distributed Open Collaborative Courses (DOCCs): Feminist Pedagogies and Networked Learning (September, 2013)
• Document on Accessibility by Stephanie Rosen and the FemTechNet Accessibility Committee
• FemTechNet Magazine, ed. by Anne Balsamo
• Video:  How to Tell Someone They Sound Racist by Jay Smooth
• Website: http://femtechnet.org/

Thursday, October 30, 2014 4 PM PDT/6 PM CDT/ 7 PM EDT

via Google Live Hangout.

Participants: Lisa Nakamura, Liz Losh

Goals / Topics:

Designing for diversity when teaching connected courses: race, class, gender, and sexuality

Reading / Background Material:

• Framing Video #1:  Video Dialogue on “Race” with Lisa Nakamura for DOCC 2013: Dialogues on Feminism and Technology

Issues can include FERPA, providing models, etc.

Wednesday, November 5, 2014 3 PM PDT/5 PM CDT/ 6 PM EDT

via Google Live Hangout.

Participants: Anne Balsamo, Veronica Parades, Lisa Nakamura

SESSION ACTIVITY

Intro to Wikistorming (facilitated by Veronica Paredes)

• How To:  Video / Resources on Wikistorming
• Connected Courses Wikistorming Exercise

Reading / Background Material:

• Framing Video #2:  Video Dialogue on “Wikistorming” with Jacquie Wernimont and Adrianne Wadewitz moderated by Jade Ulrich
• From Adrianne Wadewitz’s HASTAC blog:

• “The struggle over gender on Wikipedia: the case of Chelsea Manning,” (with Phoebe Ayers)(9/3/13)
• “Looking at the five pillars of Wikipedia as a feminist, part 1″ (8/26/13)

• James Gleick, “Wikipedia’s Women Problem,” The New York Review of Books (4/29/13)
• Amanda Filipacchi, “Wikipedia’s Sexism Toward Female Novelists,” New York Times Opinion (4/24/13)
• Sue Gardner, “New York Times prompts a flurry of coverage of Wikipedia’s gender gap,” Sue Gardner’s Blog (1/31/11)
• Noam Cohen, “Define Gender Gap? Look Up Wikipedia’s Contributor List,” The New York Times (1/30/11)

November 10, 7 PM Pacific/9 PM CST/10 PM EST

Developing community in a MOOC.

Panelists: Alec Couros, Mia Zamora, Howard Rheingold, former students of #etmooc

November 12, 6 PM Pacific /8 PM CST/ 9 PM EST. Hosted by Mia Zamora and Lee Skallerup Bessette

We will combine the #ccourses community with the #fycchat for a discussion of peer learning.  Hashtag #colearning Twitter chat prompts: Q1:  What pedagogic practices lead to and nurture a co-learning environment? Q2:  What kinds of assignments lead to a co-learning environment? Q3:  How do we support co-learners to develop their own inquiry-led projects? Q4:  What pedagogic practices support co-learners to develop their own professional learning networks? Q5: What cautions should we consider as we have students develop personal learning networks?

#colearning Tweets

November 17, 5 PM Pacific/7 PM CST/8 PM EST

How to foster and support peer learning while negotiating authority in a connected learning environment

Panelists: Howard Rheingold, Mia Zamora, Alec Couros, Lee Skallerup Bessette, Charlotte Pierce, Joe Corneli

November 19, 5 PM Pacific/7 PM CST/8 PM EST

Highlights from exemplary connected learning approaches

Panelists: Cathy Davidson & 3 of her students, David Preston and a students, Mia Zamora, Howard Rheingold, & Alec Couros

In this session Kim Jaxon, Jaimie Hoffman, Danielle Astengo, Jeremy Wallace, and Jim Groom will be discussing various approaches to building a connected courses infrastructure for individual assignments, or an entire course. This session will showcase various sites faculty and graduate students have created over the semester, and hopefully inspire others to create their own connected course hub.

Via Google Hangout

Join us as we launch new collaborations and visions going forward at #CCourses in the spring.

Webinar participants: Jonathan Worth, Mimi Ito, Kim Jaxon, and Alan Levine.

You also may participate in the realtime chat by using  the #ccourses and #notover hashtags.

This session will explore the IndieWeb movement as a people-centered response to the corporate web. How do the core IndieWeb principles of owning your content, remaining better connected, and putting you in control intersect with values of connected learning? Tune in and find out.

Join Jim Groom, Mikhail Gershovich, Ben Werdmuller, Erin Jo Richey, and Simon Thomson for an engaging conversation.

Via G+Hangout.

Join us as we launch new collaborations and visions going forward at #CCourses in the spring.

Webinar participants: Laura Ritchie, Mia Zamora, Gardner Campbell, and Mimi Ito / Kim Jaxon on Twitter.