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Session 3: Bringing Open Education into the Foreign Language Profession
Carl Blyth | Director, COERLLRachael Gilg | Projects Manager, COERLL
August 10, 2012
Becoming an Open Foreign Language Educator: Challenges & Badges for Professional Development
1. Professional Development Landscape (Carl)
2. An Introduction to Open Badges for Learning (Rachael)
3. COERLL Challenges & Badges for Professional Development (Carl)
Stories of Open Foreign Language Educators
http://sites.la.utexas.edu/voices/
Professional development knowledge ecology
Teacher Education—Colleges grant degreesContinuing Education—TEA grants credits
BUT…
Three BIG problems with professional development
The rise of informal learning
Informal Learning, Life-long learning—grants knowledge but no degree, no credit
Informal online classes, learning networks, mentorship, peer learning, volunteer, learning-by-doing, etc.
The underspecified college degree
Degrees perform an important function but they represent knowledge as an abstraction, far removed from actual learning.
People with the same degree will likely have very different skill sets. Need for more granularity.
Inaccurate or unverifiable résumés
Employers cannot easily validate information
Employers rarely verify skills because they lack the competence to assess the skills
COERLL Badges are…
An alternative, informal system of professional development and credentialingVisual representation of a skill or achievementVerifiable granting agency Verifiable evidence of achievement Flexible level of granularity
OPEN Badges for Learning
Mozilla Open Badge Infrastructure provides a way to share badges you have earned across different websites and online communitiesOpen Badges can follow you wherever you go online.
Social mediaYour blogYour professional portfolio
School of Ed / School of Open
Challenge: Certified Networked Teacher https://p2pu.org/en/groups/certified-networked-teacher/
Course: OER in the K12 Classroom https://p2pu.org/en/groups/pd-on-p2pu-oer-in-k-12/
Study Group: Connected Educator Month August 2012https://p2pu.org/en/groups/connected/?activities_filter=learning
P2PU Professional Development
Badge systems are poised to hit the mainstream soon
http://dmlcompetition.net/
Article in EdWeek on badges in K12http://www.edweek.org/dd/articles/2012/06/13/03badges.h05.html
Article in Chronicle of Higher Ed on badges at UC Davis:http://chronicle.com/article/A-Future-Full-of-Badges/131455/
Professional Development Challenges
http://sites.la.utexas.edu/power-of-openness/challenges/
Future Professional Development Opportunities
COERLL is working on developing badges around 2 existing open professional development resources:
Foreign Language Teaching Methods http://coerll.utexas.edu/methods
Spanish Proficiency Traininghttp://laits.utexas.edu/spt
FL Teaching Methods BadgesAssessment Challenge
1. Work through each the four lessons in the online video-based module at your own pace.
2. Complete the Review and Reflect section at the end of each lesson. Post your reflection to share with other learners.
3. Complete the Portfolio assignment at the end of the module. Share your Portfolio item as an Open Educational Resource.
4. Receive a badge!
Thank you
Symposium website: http://sites.la.utexas.edu/power-of-openness
Email us: [email protected]