Facilitators

Thinking about the topic for #ccourses and for me language gets in the way. People say… if we do this for them… and language is so loaded and sets so many implied divisions, even when they are certainly not intended. For me when I divisions are unfurrled, that is when I have learned respect and understanding. Words and Listening […]

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Among the many welcome surprises of being part of Connected Courses has been the emergence of a research community interested in studying and learning from the course. As part of the “why” unit 1 I had considered that we might want to try to capture some of the student outcomes of all the connected courses that are informed by this connected course on connected courses. So I worked with my colleagues in the Connected Learning Research Network to design a student survey that faculty could use as a tool to gauge student engagement and experiences in their connected course. What I hadn’t anticipated was that there might be folks who want to study how the current connected course has unfolded.

Laura Gogia was the first to contact me about this possibility, and soon there was a lively group of researchers on the forum discussing possible research projects. The discussion has ranged widely between broad sharing of theory and insights on research on connected learning writ large, as well as discussion of research on Connected Courses specifically. In order to capture some of the projects that are being incubated on Connected Courses specifically, Laura has set up a Connected Courses Research Working Group site to catalog these research interests and efforts. We also agreed that I’d take a first pass at some general guidelines for research, and ask the community for comment. So here I am.