Professional Development Collaboratory Wiki: Extended Summary
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Definition of Professional Development
... an artifact or activity, a process or product?
... different to, or comprehensive of:
- community development?
- curriculum development?
- curriculum vitae development?
- economic development?
- educational innovation?
- faculty development?
- materials development?
- personal development?
- scholarship of teaching and learning?
- technological development?
Professional Development Definition
: Professional development is a continuous learning process across all levels of the institution for the entire learning community. Quality professional development expands the capacity of the learning community to realize its vision and reach its goals. http://dpi.wi.gov/cssch/cssprofdev1.htmlDefinition of a Professional Development Collaboratory
A professional development collaboratory may share fundamental characteristics of other collaboratories including, but not necessarily limited to: organized, rule-governed processes for socialization, instrument (tools) and data sharing, contextualization, and collaboration--either consequent or subsequent to a collaboratory's (collective) organization, but certainly consequent to its governance if indeed governance is taken for granted. Such a collaboratory stretches the concept of laboratory to embrace endeavours other than "geographically distributed scientific research" (Wikpedia, Collaboratory, Summary, ¶2; 2008.08.25) in order to promote activities and interactions, conceivably experimental, yet conducive to evolutionary and sustainable professional behaviours.
How do we find out about Pro-D opportunities?
- Listings in trusted online communities (ETUG, SCoPE, WikiEducator, CIDER)
- Direct recommendations from colleagues
- Identify a gap in own learning, then seek out pro-d
- Google searches for specific topics, activities, resources
- Follow leads from individuals in our networks (using a variety of tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Tags, Ning, shared calendars)
- Lurking close by those who are passionate about teaching and learning
- Advertising on home institution websites
- Mailing lists
- Websites
- Compilations created by others
- Event services/tools, such as The Conference Calendar, Facebook Events, Upcoming, Google shared calendar
- Online libraries
- Conceptualizing
- Collecting
- Connecting
- Convening
- Learnscaping
- Planning
- Professionalizing Post-Secondary Teaching: 2009
- Telementoring: Dates TBA
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- Reflecting upon...
How do we make the time?
- Personal Management of Participation in Social Networks: Oct 27-Nov 9, 2008
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- ...
How do we manage the information?
- Use Netvibes or other aggregation tools to bring in RSS feeds, calenar events, social networking channels, bookmark tags, etc. -- one stop shopping overview of PD developments in a given area
- Build... a Virtual Museum on the History of EdTech: October 1-21, 2008
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- ...
Exemplary Pro-D Websites
- SCoPE: a Moodle site with scheduled discussions
- Examples though links (and possibly feeds) in other §§:
- ... opportunities for what?
- How do we make the time?
- How do we manage the information?
- ... opportunities for what?
- Examples though links (and possibly feeds) in other §§:
- WIMBA: a commercial site with Distinguished Lecturer sessions
Guiding Principles
- Keep it clean and simple so that it's easy to find information.
- We need indicators of quality/ reputation
- Origin of pro-d events not important
- Fees are appropriate if it looks like the gains are there
- Consider that not everybody has time for F2F events at home institutions
- Taking pro-d at other institutions has advantages
- Best recommendations are from people who have experienced PD themselves
- Build on what already exists - don't duplicate
Essential Elements
- quick, easy access to information
- personalize/customize
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