What sort of learner-centered educational intervention can be used to teach AU students how to create and curate information?
What leadership model is needed to promote and support this pro-posed educational intervention?
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KEY PRESENTATION QUESTIONS
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LANDINGDEPLOYSACTIVE USERS
DISCUSSION TOPICSAVERAGE # OF VISITS PER MONTH
ESTABLISHED GROUPS
LAND
ING ST
ATS
It's social Velcro, not tied to the course contracts, defined func-tions, or fixed communities. It's a place where both serendipitous & intentional learning happens. It's a toolset for making social learning spaces.
– J. DRON
Situated learning
Peer to peer and peer to professional connections
“Sandbox” for knowledge creation and curation
Modeling open and situated learning activities
OPPORTUNITIES CREATED
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New form of knowledge access created via LiveStream
New “leaders” emerge as different people facilitate conference connects and oversee organization
Students are more likely to share traceable artifacts about their learning
Students are more likely to connect to one another from exposure to shared artifacts
Student to student connections build social capital
Student to professional connections augment professional networks
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By thinking of leadership as a behavior, not a formal role, it [complexity leadership] extends the capability for leadership behaviors to all organized members and calls for change in how we approach leadership development, which then should focus beyond managers or future managers to include all organizational members.
(Uhl -Bien, 2003)
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}COMPLEX ADAPTIVE
SYSTEM (CAS)
unit or network of independent agents “bonded in a cooperative dynamic”
"...emergent, interactive dynamic—a complex interplay from which a collective impetus for action and change emerges when heterogeneous agents interact in networks in ways that produce new patterns of behavior or new modes of operating.
(Uhl -Bien, Marion, & McKelvey, 2007)
B Collective Agency
B Increase Personal Network
B Social Capital amongst Students
B Social Capital within larger Community
B Access to Information/Information Trace
POTENTIAL WITHIN INITIATIVE
+ “Seed and enliven” the Landing
+ Provide impetus for congregating
+ Provide catalyst for curation/creation
+ Guided by common ethos