Sylvia Currie

Thank you Jenny, Roy, and Simone for such an engaging webinar today, and thanks everyone for your engagement! 

Here is the recording for those who were time (or time zone) challenged, and also for those who wish to revisit. 

https://sas.elluminate.com/p.jnlp?psid=2013-11-19.1005.M.AC456DEF2B5841109A2E4E2783A336.vcr&sid=727

We're busy converting the recording to other formats, and will post those links soon. Normally an audio-only format isn't ideal when there is a lot of whiteboard activity, but Jenny did a fantastic job of vocalizing our brainstorm :-)

Also, a few other harvests are forthcoming... whiteboard snapshots and text chat archive. 

Reminder! The first Footprints of Emergence webinar takes place tomorrow!

When: Tuesday, 19 November 18:00 GMT, 10:00 PST

Where: SCoPE Blackboard Collaborate Room: http://urls.bccampus.ca/scopeevents

What: We will discuss what emergent learning is and the progress of our research. This will be followed by asynchronous discussion in the forum, where we can discuss further questions and any issues arising from the webinar.

How to prepare:

• If you are new to Blackboard Collaborate check that your equipment is ready ahead of the session.
• Plan to join a few minutes prior to the start of the event.
• Enter your full name when prompted.

Note: You may enter the Blackboard Collaborate room at any time to ensure there are no technical issues. 

This is an open invitation so please spread the word! 

Welcome to Footprints of Emergence.

About this seminar

This seminar is an exploration and discussion of how learning does (or does not) take place in complex learning environments, such as open online courses, and how this interacts with learning design.

To do this we will share our past and current research into emergent learning, which has been published in two papers. In particular, we will explain and discuss the framework we have developed for ‘complex’ learning environments – Footprints of Emergence.  

This framework enables learners and learning designers to articulate, map out, and reflect on critical aspects of learning in open, emergent learning events, both individually and collaboratively and results in visualisations of the learning experience – see the Footprints of Emergence open wiki for examples of learner experience footprints.

There are two webinars scheduled as part of this 2-week seminar discussion. They will take place in the SCoPE Blackboard Collaborate Room: http://urls.bccampus.ca/scopeevents

1. Tuesday, 19 November 18:00 GMT 
   

   We will introduce ourselves and discuss what emergent learning is and the progress of our research. This will be followed by asynchronous discussion in the forum, where we can discuss further questions and any issues arising from the webinar.

2. Tuesday, 26 November 18:00 GMT 
   

   This webinar will focus on drawing footprints of emergence and a discussion of the critical factors, which we use to describe and map out the learning experience. We will encourage all participants to draw their own footprints. In the following asynchronous discussion forum, we hope that you will share your footprints, so that we can critically reflect on the approach, and methodology, in order to improve it and to continue to make it accessible, available and relevant to the broader research and design community.

About our facilitators

Roy Williams is an academic, designer, facilitator and researcher, responsible for e-assessment, e-learning, and research in the Dept. of Mathematics and the School of Computing at the University of Portsmouth, UK, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal (South Africa). More about Roy... 

Jenny Mackness is an independent education consultant and researcher, based in the UK, who specialises in designing, authoring and facilitating online learning programmes for national and international markets, and researching open online learning. She has participated in many MOOCs and worked with a team to design and run one of the UK’s first MOOCs (FSLT12). More about Jenny...

Simon Gumtau Simone is a visual communication designer specialising in interactive media design, and an academic lecturer and researcher. More about Simone...

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 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 
skype:webbedfeat 
+1 250-318-2907

(edited post 19 Nov, 2013 to correct date of second webinar sjc)

We know they're out there. Let's round them up!

I'll start:

Etherpad used for the session facilitated by Peter Arthur and Gary Hunt:
What do teachers need to know about technology for high quality education?

http://abbott.bccampus.ca:9001/p/etug13

We have some volunteers lined up to do the graphic recording of the George Veletsianos keynote. We're all grads of what has come to be known as the #rosviz workshop, facilitated by Nancy White and Michelle Laurie. The first workshop was in 2010 in Rossland, BC hence the 'Ros' part of that hashtag. The most recent workshop was held at UBC in September. 

Late Wednesday George will be sending me some notes around the big ideas of the talk. That will help us to plan how we will use the wall space, and to arrive armed with some visuals and organizers to represent those ideas.

Here's the roster:

• Melissa Jakubec
• Hilda Anggraeni
• Jason Toal
• Sylvia Currie,
• Leva Lee
• Tracy Kelly
• plus anyone who wants to draw!