Download - Nobles 2 2015
9:40-10:30: Workshop Round 1 (Choose One)Best Practices in Instructional DesignThe Power of VideoClass Tour: Designing Student-centered AssessmentsClass Tour: Crowdsourcing - Students as Content Curators
10:30-10:40: Break
10:40-11:30: Workshop Round 2
11:30-12: Closing Presentation/Reflection Activity
Our Mission
1500+STUDENTS
75+TEACHERS
60SCHOOLS
To replicate in online classrooms the intellectually rigorous programs and excellent teaching that are
the hallmarks of its member schools
To foster new & effective ways, through best practices in online education, for students to learn
To promote students’ global awareness and understanding by creating truly diverse,
worldwide, online schoolroom communities
MISSION-DRIVEN, NOT-FOR-PROFIT
The Student Experience: A Typical Week
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
Teachers & students are located across
multiple times zones
Students commit 5-7 hours per weekto a single course
Classes gatherasynchronouslywith no set time
Students collaborateon projects
and discussions
The Global Online AcademyStudent Experience
Global Perspectives
Academic Excellence
Passion-driven Learning
Meaningful Relationships
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Asia Society Global Competencies:Investigate the WorldTake ActionWeigh PerspectivesCommunicate IdeasApply Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Expertise(source: http://asiasociety.org/global-competence)
…but the world is complex and designed by others.
danah boyd “Streams of Content, Limited Attention: the Flow of Information through Social Media” Educause Review Online
“Making content work in a networked era is going to
be about living in the streams, consuming
and producing alongside ‘customers’
— consuming to understand, producing to
be relevant…”
Demand for New Skills
Proliferation of tools
Thomas Friedman NY Times January 30, 2013(Referring to The World Is Flat)
“...When I wrote [The World is Flat], Facebook, Twitter, cloud computing, LinkedIn,
4G wireless, ultra-high-speed bandwidth, big data,
Skype,... iPhones, iPods, iPads and cellphone apps
didn’t exist, or were in their infancy.”
The Role of the Teacher
danah boyd “Streams of Content, Limited Attention: the Flow of Information through Social Media” Educause Review Online
“We need tools that allow people to more easily contextualize
relevant content regardless of where
they are and what they are doing…”