This thread is for conversations related to the Course Management Strategies OER: https://canvas.instructure.com/courses/200141/self_enrollment/WGY7JC
Sylvia Currie
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Welcome to the Remixathon!
About this seminar
This event extends the reach of the Open Education Conference -- Beyond Content -- taking place in Vancouver 16-18 October, 2012.
We have gathered 10 submissions from individuals who are seeking collaborators to create derivative works. So YOU are invited to do the remixing. This is an opportunity to give proof to the promise that Open Educational Resources have always held, that they enable remixed derivative works.
Schedule
12 October 11:00 PDT That's TODAY!
Virtual kick-off in Blackboard Collaborate: http://urls.bccampus.ca/scopeevents
During this session the submitters will describe their OERs and envisioned enhancements.
12 - 17 October
Discussions among those who submitted projects for remixing, those who are involved in the remixing, and those who are just plain curious about the whole process.
18 October, 12:00 PDT
Submissions are due! The results will be announced at the closing session of the Open Education conference, available via videocast.
About our facilitators
Paul Stacey is the Senior Project Manager for Creative Commons. Prior to that he worked at BCcampus where he helped to develop Open Educational Resources across all post secondary fields of study. Paul was one of the very first SCoPE members, and helped to launch this community!
Scott Leslie is Client Services Manager at BCcampus where is he is involved in all things related to open educational resources and practices. In addition he provides research and development capabilities around emerging educational technologies.
Participating in SCoPE Seminars
SCoPE seminars are free and open to the public, and registration is not required. You are welcome to come and go according to your schedule and interests. To contribute you will need to create an account on the SCoPE site -- a quick process. Are you new to SCoPE or wondering how to manage your participation? Check this resource.
If you're a Diigo or Delicious user we can round up our resources pertaining to this seminar topic by using the tags 'scope seminar' and 'opened12'. In Diigo you may choose to share to the SCoPE group.
If you have any questions about participating in SCoPE don't hesitate to ask here in the forum, or get in touch with me directly:
Sylvia Currie
scurrie@bccampus.ca
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+1 250-318-2907
Announcement! Announcement! The next Foundations of Communities of Practice course begins October 22. This 6-week online course is facilitated by Etienne Wenger-Trayner, John Smith, and Bronwyn Stuckey, along with mentors (past workshop participants) and guest speakers. It's a fantastic experience and comes highly recommended!
A project I am currently working on is to watch for indicators of value-creation in the SCoPE community. This idea is inspired by the work of Etienne Wenger-Trayner, Bev Wenger-Trayner, and Maarten de Laat: Promoting and assessing value creation in communities and netowrks: a conceptual framework (PDF). When I first read this paper I was really drawn to the idea of stories to capture the experiences of participants as they engage in community activities, and also what impact this has had on professional life. Jenny Mackness has written about the Value Creation framework on her blog over the past year. I highly recommend reading Jenny's posts for a concise description of what is involved.
I realize that capturing these stories is not a light task, but also believe that committing to this as an ongoing practice would inform our work as a community of practice. So far I've just been skimming past SCoPE discussions to look for statements that indicate personal benefit and appreciation, as well as evidence that participation in the community has spanned across boundaries into activities elsewhere. To do this properly I would need to conduct interviews (and I would love to do that!) but I see this first phase as combing the forum discussions to see what value-creation indicators have emerged through participation. However, if anyone feels compelled to invest a few minutes in documenting their experiences, it would be so helpful!
There are 2 templates:
- Personal value narrative
- Specific value-creation stories
The personal value narrative is a matrix (see p. 44 of the paper) so is a little hard to duplicate here.
The specific value-creation stories are guided by 5 questions, but not all questions need to be answered to generate a useful story.
The questions below represent an abbreviated view of the toolkit offered in the Value Creation paper. See page 47 for the full questions.
- What meaningful activities did you participate in?
- What specific skills or insights did you gain? What access to useful information or material?
- How did this influence your practice? What difference did it make / what did it enable that would not have happened otherwise?
- What was the outcome? How did it contribute to your own success and/or the success of your workplace?
- Did the experience change your sense of what success is?
Do you find these questions helpful for documenting your experiences? Anyone game to try it? Remember, not all questions need answers for your piece become a valuable story.
This is a really condensed description of the value creation framework so I won't be surprised by requests to elaborate! :-)
The suggestion to create summaries of each seminar, and the different shapes that these might take ("regular summaries" during seminars for the benefit of occasional participants, reports that might "marry themes from the literature with the conversations") prompted me to dig back into past discussions. It's not a new suggestion, and it's a bit of an embarrassment that I've never been successful in establishing a routine or format for preparing summaries.
Two years ago (yikes!) we came very close to articulating what we need. Revisiting this thread I realized in horror that I promised to return with a summary of the discussion about summaries and failed to do that. Oh the irony!
Also, Richard Schwier, during a conversation about creating ebooks, suggested that we compile SCoPE seminar summaries each year into a book. Fabulous idea! And one that suggests a consistent format.
During a guided virtual tour of the KM4DEV (part of the CP2-SCoPE quarterly field trips) we learned about a practice in that community to summarize all discussions in a wiki. This is an impressive list of summaries! I'm trying to recall the full story about the strategies used to motivate participants to take this extra step. I'll ask around and see what I can find out!
Nevertheless the time challenge remains. We always start out with great intentions, and have managed to create a few summaries here and there and using a variety of formats -- wikis, tags, and summary posts. But it obviously needs to become embedded in what we do here at SCoPE.
Is it as simple as asking for volunteers at the beginning of each seminar? Or perhaps a paid job that would interest a student?