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Embracing Uncertainty: Collaboration as learning
Dave Cormier
http://xkcd.com/1021/
4 Kinds of Uncertainty
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Simple Challenges
(Audience response eg.)1.How do I get a study permit? - one page
reply and attach the document2.Where to find work on campus? 3.Students not checking their email4.How many courses am I allowed to take?
Bad Good
Email Google docs
Invent new ways of doing things every time
Establish best practices
Collaborate with no one
Collaborate across campus
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Complicated
(Audience response)1. Email2. Working with parents and
guardians3. Collaborate on university wide
initiatives4. Financials
Bad Good
Consultant’s report Project plan
Do what another university did
Follow good research practices
Make it a student project
Collaborate with experts
Chaotic
(Audience response)1. Disgruntled student/parent 2. Flu outbreak3. Violent crime
Bad Good
Wait Act
Ignore the results Follow up with another response
Do this often Use it as a last resort
Complex
(Audience response)1. Social media and student services2. Special Needs students3. Organizational culture
Bad Good
Look for ‘the answer’ Experiment
Try only one thing Iterate
Follow an expert Collaborate with peers.
3 key trends
Massive Open Online Courses
Internationalization
• Last year in the Atlantic provinces… International students – 9,692 (+1,204)
• Vietnamese Students Earn Online High School Diplomas Through The University of Texas at Austin
• Racial Politics
• EAL (English as an additional language)
India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Indian_Railways_Network_Connectivity_Map_with_cities_and_population_density.png
Analytics
http://www.slideshare.net/sbs/learning-analytics-dream-nightmare-or-fairydust
Albany Technical College: The Student Tracking and Retention Services (STARS) Program is designed to serve high‐risk students by personally connecting them with counselors… The STARS program has increased the retention rate to 87% compared with rates prior to this intervention (68.3%), and STARS has also increased Academic Affairs and Student Affairs collaboration while generating new ideas and ways of helping students. http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/NGLC003.pdf
Ok Dave… so what?
Community as curriculum
Rhizomatic learning:Learning the things you can’t be told
”Successful health services in the 21st century must aim not merely for change, improvement, and response, but for changeability, improvability, and responsiveness.”Coping with complexity: educating for capabilitySarah W Fraser, Trisha Greenhalgh. 2001
“When you finally come to grips you can't solve today's problems using present methods, you take the lead to venture to the Complex Domain. As leader, you initiate a search and rally followers to find a new solution that will change the paradigm.”Change Management or Change Leadership?Gary Wong, Cognitive Edge Network 2010
2 CommunitiesOne that didn’t work and one that did
Emerge project – a support program designed to help people collaborate
Prize oriented – “the problem was, after the money was awarded we had the community, we had the place, but they had no reason to communicate.”Lawrie Phipps - interview
“the culture rewards individual work”Lawrie Phipps - interview
Edtechtalk: Collection of weekly webcasts from educators. For educators.
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So how do we do it well?
Make the right kind of decision
Be responsible for your own learning
Share
1 Final Point
When the community is your curriculum, you become the expert
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Embrace uncertainty