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Community OF Practice or Community AS Practice?

Navigating the Currents of E-learning IFWE 2012. Community OF Practice or Community AS Practice?. REBEKAH K. NIX Senior Lecturer, Teacher Development Center CHRISTINE MALINA-MAXWELL Program Manager for Blended & Online Initiatives. Wenger, White and Smith (2009).

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Community OF Practice or Community AS Practice?

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  1. Navigating the Currents of E-learning IFWE 2012 Community OF Practice orCommunity AS Practice? REBEKAH K. NIX Senior Lecturer, Teacher Development Center CHRISTINE MALINA-MAXWELL Program Manager for Blended & Online Initiatives

  2. Wenger, White and Smith (2009) Community OF Practice Range of Activities • Exchange • Productive inquiries • Building shared understanding • Producing assets • Creating standards • Formal access to knowledge • Visits

  3. Nix (1999) Intention:connects domain to practice

  4. How can we help others rise to the IFWE Challenge? IFWE Challenge • If we share ideas and combine our experiences, what advancements can we fuel? • If we focus on distance learning, what directions can we set? • If we dare to be creative, what freedom can we find? • If we draw upon a woman's way of knowing, what difference will it make? • If we collaborate, what issues can we promote? • If we reach out, how inclusive can we be? • If we don't try something, how will we ever know?

  5. Community Juggling Activity • Rules • Play safe • Be nice • Introduction • Your name, role, and institution • What's most challenging to you personally RE the recent and rapid change in distance education

  6. Jarche (2011) Community AS Practice

  7. Integrated Learning Environment Campus-wide engagement to infuse mechanics with dynamics NEWNESS New Tools & Resources Changing Content MASSIVENESS University Environment Information ‘Explosion’ New Tools & Resources Changing Content Novelty Issue Courses Technology Novelty Issue eTeaching Cultural Diversity Information ‘Explosion’ Cultural Diversity ‘Everest’ Syndrome Individual Comfort Level eLearning Educational Technologies ‘Everest’ Syndrome Individual Comfort Level University Environment Educational Technologies Affective Perspective Effective Perspective APPROPRIATENESS Teaching and Learning (T&L) Focus Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Focus SOURCE: After Nix’s Integrated Science Learning Environment model

  8. Frame of Reference

  9. DeBono(1986) Cognitive Research Trust: CoRT Thinking Creative Constructive Critical 21st century THINKING

  10. PMI: The Treatment of Ideas • P = Plus The good things about an idea – why you like it. • M = Minus The bad things about an idea – why you don’t like it. • I = Interesting What you find interesting about an idea – neither good nor bad but worth noticing. By-pass your natural emotional reaction

  11. CAF: The Factors Involved • CAF = Consider All Factors • affecting oneself • affecting other people • affecting society in general • PMI is a reaction to an idea whereas CAF is an exploration of a situation before coming up with an idea. What factors have I left out here?

  12. CoRT Thinking Tools

  13. IFWE 2012 Navigating the Currents of E-learning Community OF/AS Practice! REBEKAH rnix@utdallas.edu CHRISTINE christine.malina-maxwell@utdallas.edu

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