first thing to do! SIGN UP FOR the Davidson MOOC starting 27 January that will be one anchor of the course across the country, link here:
https://www.coursera.org/course/highered?utm_classid=971553&utm_nottype=class.welcome.before&utm_notid=-1&utm_linknum=7
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Our first week or two: come to either class time as is convenient to participate in designing our version of the course here at UMD and to customize your participation. Come to • WDS 0104 Tu at 4-6:30 pm or to • SYM 0216 W 1-3:30 pm. (You are welcome to come to both!) Be sure to sign up for the MOOC, look over this website, and examine the PRELIMINARY syllabus: this is a discussion document to be altered for our various uses. (See Your Field Notes tab for Field Notes assignment, and scroll down to end to find and consider our preliminary syllabus.)
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See MOOC site for all materials too: some available online, and also ordered at UMD Bookstore:
Readings (from the MOOC site):
There will be specific “readings”--articles, blog posts, websites, videos, and other resources--suggested for each lecture. The main “texts” for this course will be:
- Davidson, Cathy N. Now You See It: How Technology and the Brain Science of Attention Will Change the Way We Live, Work and Learn. 2011. (This will be made available free online for the first 50,000 students registered for this course and is also available to purchase on Amazon, Barnes & Nobles, and IndieBound). 9780143121268 ORDERED FOR UMD & ON RESERVE MCKELDIN
- The 21st Century Collective, Field Notes for 21st Century Literacies: A Guide to New Theories, Methods, and Practices for Open Peer Teaching and Learning. [ck link]
- Davidson, Cathy N. and David Theo Goldberg. Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age. MIT Press. Available for free download as a pdf [ck link]. 9780262513746 ORDERED FOR UMD & ON RESERVE MCKELDIN
- DukeSurprise.com [ck link]
connection tools for iPhone and iPad:
Coursera on the App Store on iTunes
Coursistant - iPad app for Coursera & Udacity
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Davidson's blogsite: What is a MOOC? http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/2012/08/13/what-mooc
See Davidson's article at Inside Higher Ed: "It's not a MOOC, It's a Movement!": http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/higher-ed-beta/its-not-mooc-its-movement#.UrL2EYWpT-4.facebook
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EXCITING INTERACTIONS HAVE ALREADY BEGUN! JOIN THE DISCUSSION STARTED, HERE IN THIS VIDEO!
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Follow on HASTAC:
Q&A with Professor Christopher Newfield
January 22, 2014
Here are the questions that the students in the Duke/Stanford/University of California at Santa Barbara classes asked before the Google Hangout with Professor Christopher Newfield (UCSB). You can watch this Google Hang Out on YouTube: online
Reading:
Newfield, Christopher. Unmaking the Public University: The Forty Year Assault on the Middle Class. Harvard University Press. 2011. Print. 9780674060364
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Resources on Critical Making: an approach to new learning processes and ecologies! http://dtc-wsuv.org/wp/mla14-critical-making/critical-making/
Know about Play as Inquiry? check out this alternate realty game here! http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/gamechanger/portfolios/play-as-inquiry/
Katie's students in the Games and Virtual Worlds class playing too: see pics here.
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Steve Berg's Oscelot Scholars sites, the conversations have already begun there too!:
=for discussions: http://ocelotscholars.org/discussions.html
=for publications: http://ocelotscholars.org/index.html
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#FutureEd in Clouds: University, Humanities, and MOOCs
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