Field Notes for a Peer-Written Textbook for Teaching Collaborative, Open, Peer Learning and Teaching

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May 212013
 

Yesterday #Duke21C met again, two weeks after the end of the semester to take our book manuscript to the next level and make dozens of collective decisions and delegate all the chores necessary on the way to publishing our book together.   Amazingly, 100% of the students and the prof (moi!) showed up for an intense, friendly, and uttlery collaborative three hour session, one on Skype from Cambridge, one having just gotten in by bus from Washington, DC, another having returned early from a hiking trip, and ot

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Field Notes for a Peer-Written Textbook for Teaching Collaborative, Open, Peer Learning and Teaching

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May 212013
 

Yesterday #Duke21C met again, two weeks after the end of the semester to take our book manuscript to the next level and make dozens of collective decisions and delegate all the chores necessary on the way to publishing our book together.   Amazingly, 100% of the students and the prof (moi!) showed up for an intense, friendly, and uttlery collaborative three hour session, one on Skype from Cambridge, one having just gotten in by bus from Washington, DC, another having returned early from a hiking trip, and ot

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Crystal Kile intro

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May 202013
 

Hi, all...

Greetings from Chattanooga, Tennessee! I'm a cultural studies-oriented women's, gender, and sexuality studies practitioner who burned out going down with her ship in New Orelans in the aftermath of the Katrina event. During 1996-2010, I coordinated educational programs including instituting a feminist participatory media collaboratory (Sophielab) at the late Newcomb College Center for Research on Women of Tulane University.

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Storyboarding the Future of Higher Education.

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May 162013
 

This is a first draft of the storyboard outline for The History and Future of Higher Education, my six-week Coursera course that will premier in Spring 2014.   I will also be teaching a face-to-face Duke student-led course on the topic and the Duke PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge will be contributing ideas throughout the course to destabilize, complicate, agitate, and in otherwise shake up the centralized, Sage on the Stage video model.  

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An Interview with Dr. Patrick Jagoda about Lucidity

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May 112013
 

I had the serendipitous opportunity to interview Dr. Patrick Jagoda, a co-founder of the Game Changer Chicago Design Lab, about Game Changer’s newly released game, Lucidity. What struck me as especially interesting and engaging was the design process Game Changer uses—Lucidity and other games are collaboratively designed with young people from the South Side of Chicago. Patrick and I talked about the design process for Lucidity, and the joys and challenges of working with young people and technology.

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Peer Learning, Online Learning, MOOCs, and Me: Response to the Chronicle of Higher Education

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Apr 302013
 

I was very surprised this morning to find myself placed right at the tippy-top of a Chronicle of Higher Education infographic on "Major Players in the MOOC Movement":   "http://chronicle.com/article/Major-Players-in-the-MOOC/138817/.    The whole infographic brings home how confused the world is right now about the differences and overlap between online learning, peer-to-peer networked digital learning, informal learning that uses technology to extend its reach, the use o

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