New Education for a Digital World Event Series

The "Education for a Digital World 2.0" series kicks off Wednesday, March 30th, with two sessions.  This series is a part of the LearnCentral public Webinar program and FutureofEducation.com.  The collaboratively authored book, Education for a Digital World 2.0, and its predecessor Education for a Digital World represent a shift in how educators are sharing their research, experiences and best practices in online teaching and learning.  Join us as we talk with individual authors about their contributions and the global online collaborative writing journey.

Title:  Cultivating Communities of Practice: Analysis of 3 Case Studies Using the 7 Principles
Authors/Presenters:  Sylvia Currie, Patricia Delich, and Paul Stacey
Date: Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Time: 12:00 pm Pacific Time / 3:00 pm Eastern Time / 7:00pm GMT (international times here)
Description:  "In this session we will describe 3 case studies using Wenger, McDermott, &; Snyder's (2002) 7 Principles for Cultivating Communities of Practice. This framework provides a close look at how our decisions about community design and technologies to support community activities were made and revised, as well as a consistent and rich view to help those involved in online and hybrid communities learn from our experiences."
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tr.im/edw20.  The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early.  If you haven't used Elluminate before, you can make sure your computer is configured correctly to enter the room by going to http://www.elluminate.com/support
Event Page:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/65701

Title:  Blended Work – Experiences From International Development Projects

Authors/Presenters:  Susan Crichton with Azra Naseem

Date: Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Time: 12:30 pm Pacific Time / 3:30 pm Eastern Time / 7:30pm GMT (international times here)

Description:  "We know about blended learning but what about blended work? When we use learning tools in academic work place applications, what changes and what are the challenges?  This seminar shares the authors’ experiences from the last fourteen months as we’ve navigated the virtual terrain connecting colleagues in Pakistan East Africa, the UK and Canada.  Trust us, time zones weren’t the biggest challenge!"

Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tr.im/edw20b.  The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early.  If you haven't used Elluminate before, you can make sure your computer is configured correctly to enter the room by going to http://www.elluminate.com/support

Event Page:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/65704

[Cross-posted from http://www.stevehargadon.com]

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Jackie Gerstein on "User-Generated Education"

Our "Students 2.0" mini-series continues on Tuesday, April 27th, with a live and interactive interview with Dr. Jackie Gerstein on "User-Generated Education."

Date:  Tuesday, 27th April, 2010
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tr.im/futureofed. The Elluminate room will be open up to 30 minutes before the event if you want to come in early. To make sure that your computer is configured for Elluminate, please visit http://www.elluminate.com/support. Recordings of the session will be posted within a day of the event at the event page.
Event Page:  http://www.learncentral.org/event/70950

This session will explore the following questions:

• "Should a student-centric, user-generated education be the predominant learning model for this era of the 21st Century?"  
• "Can networked-learning based on communities of practice with multiage learners be a model-platform for education in this century?" 

Resources for this presentation can be found at http://jackiegerstein.wikispaces.com/User-Generated+Education.

Dr. Jackie Gerstein's byline is " I don't do teaching for a living, I live teaching as my doing, and technology has AMPLIFIED the passion."  More about Jackie's experiences and passions can be viewed at http://jackiegerstein.weebly.com/.

[Cross-posted from http://www.stevehargadon.com]

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