edna is partly funded by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. Managed and maintained by Education.au

edna’s use of

Pru Mitchellme.edu.au/p/pru

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Who is edna?

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

Who uses Groups?

• sector based special interest groups

• project teams, consultative groups

• professional associations

• online support for certificate courses

• institution-based groups: school, technical education, tertiary, faculty based

• Australia-wide networks

Deliver courses

Events planning

Online events

Internal PDProfessional association website

Project management

Build community aroundshared interest

Learning projectsfor students

What can I do in Groups?

What do we do?Primary purpose of Group %community of practice/interestaround a curriculum area, topic, industry grouping, discipline or educational practice

68%

project teamdefined task or administrative orientation amongst education professionals

10%

course deliverywith adult students

4%

consultative groupeg feedback or survey

3%

support a conferenceface to face and/or online

2%

special student projectsubgroup of course, or teacher education students

2%

Othereg testing, sandpit, learning the technology

11%

Group numbers

Group characteristics

• 80% are private – using an invitation key

• Most common tools are:• Resources – file upload, directory display,

web page creation• Activities – forums, wikis, chat, glossary• Blocks – recent activity, news forum, RSS

feeds, HTML block

edna’s Training Space

groups.edna.edu.au/course/view.php?id=140

ImmersED

immersed.net.au

exploring education in the

metaverse

• free, open source

• course management

software

• collection of integrated tools

• doesn’t always look the same

• some web skills desirable

• help & documentation are

online

moodle messages

Questions about Groups?

Celebrating learning throughonline curriculum projects

ozprojects.edu.au

OzProjects

http://url.edna.edu.au/MwhN

ozprojects.edu.au/course/view.php?id=24

Global Projects

Millennium Development Goals

Pictures © UNDP Brazil

Poverty

Education

Gender

Child mortalityMaternal health

Disease

Environment

Global partnership

Sea Week

Antarctica

Photo from Flickr by cloudzilla

Picture submitted to OzProjects by William’s Wonders

Biodiversity 2010

Planet Earth in Our Hands

Environmental Projects

Questions about OzProjects?

Successful communities• clarity of purpose, focus for activities

• an existing clientele

• shared ownership

• ongoing stimulation, social interaction

• activities in which members can interact and contribute

• commitment and active mentoring

Learning communities

– community of practice

– social presence

– collaborative learning

– knowledge construction technology

Tu and Corry (2001) Research in online learning community

Salmon’s 5-stage modelwww.atimod.com/e-moderating/5stage.shtml

• policies• statement of purpose• open or walled?• eligibility and registration• personal information and privacy• user material and intellectual property• conduct, grievances and termination

Access & motivation

Introduce yourself or your team

Socialisation

90-9-1 Principle

Special guests in forums

Information exchange

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Wikis

Knowledge construction

Developmentreal dialogue about authentic issues

RSS feeds

Development (2)

• users don’t have to install software/plug-ins

• available wherever you are, single sign on

• reasonable bandwidth

• support from real people, instant help via groups@edna.edu.au

• Group Owner Group (GOG)

• volunteer ‘testers’ and consultative group

• keeping up-to-date to upskill educators

Success factors

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