Submitted Workshop OER14 Proposal: Help Design the Peeragogy Accelerator
Mr. Danoff's Teaching Laboratory 2013-12-20
Summary:
Joe Corneli and I submitted a workshop proposal to OER14 titled: “Help Design the Peeragogy Accelerator”. Check out the abstract below, and let us know if you have any feedback or if you’d like to attend!
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- Peeragogy Handbook editors will help participants collaboratively accelerate their OER work by leveraging peer learning.
Rationale
- Editors of the Peeragogy Handbook will lead this workshop, giving participants an opportunity to uncover what they want to learn or achieve within the world of OER. We aim to help participants improve the efficiency of their learning processes by leveragingthe work of peers. We bring years of experience with projects like the Peeragogy handbook, PlanetMath, Collaborative Lesson Planning, and The Uncertainty Principle and other case studies of “peeragogy in action”. We will briefly present a range of examples, but the focus of the workshop will be on garnering insights of participants, to help specify the problems they are working on in their individual OER projects — both thematic problems like “generating revenue” and “student participation”, as well as more context-specific issues.
Content
- We will share a set of five principles for effective peer learning that have been explored in practice (see references), as well as a catalog of patterns for peer learning, which serves as a robust method for doing “emergent design”. Participants will use these design techniques to build a real, functioning, accelerator programme that will operate in a distributed fashion during the next year. Participants will be able to repeat this activity with their own local communities. We want to be open about the risks involved in building a spontaneous and emergent process - we have had good results in the past, but there are always obstacles, and part of the purpose of this exercise is to understand the current set of obstacles that participants face in their own work.
Delivery Methods
- The workshop will give participants the opportunity to reflect clearly on their own educational projects and provide them with an opportunity to figure out how different projects can come together in a way that improves everybody’s work. Outline (90 minute time slot):
- 05 Minutes - for technical setup and quick introductions
- 10 Minutes - Overview of Peeragogy
- 05 Minutes - Attendees complete questionnaire on an Etherpad, providing background their own project and goals
- 20 Minutes - Organize attendees into groups of 3 or more, each discussing their project goals with one another and looking for more information on what could achieved in a collaboration
- 20 Minutes - Change groups again, repeat the process of looking for connections (first 5 minutes of this section will discuss successes and failures of the previous section)
- 20 Minutes - Individuals “report back” what they discovered in their small groups and if they have new ideas for collaboration. (What could they bring to a Peer Learning Accelerator? What would they want to get?)
- 10 Minutes - Wind down, determine specific action steps for individual groups to move forward on and how to re-incorporate their findings back into the accelerator (e.g. a Peeragogy Google+ working group, or a co-created Collaborative Exploration to deepen the themes that have been raised in the workshop)
References
- Corneli and Danoff, Paragogy: Synergizing individual and institutional learning (Published on Wikiversity 22 January 2011) http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/File:Paragogy-final.pdf
- Corneli and Danoff, Paragogy, in CEUR Workshop Proceedings (ISSN 1613-0073), July 2011 Vol-739