[DG: Teaching & Learning] Teaching & Learning] Teaching and Learning Gathering at Open Apereo Conference (San Diego)
Josh Baron
Josh.Baron at marist.edu
Wed Jun 5 23:15:53 PDT 2013
Ken,
I really appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts and input
on list prior to our meeting. My time is limited at this moment but I'll
be sure to reply back to your comments and also share some outcomes from
the meeting as soon as I can. For now, I just wanted to say thanks!
Josh
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Joshua Baron
Senior Academic Technology Officer
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
(845) 575-3623 (work)
Twitter: JoshBaron
From: "Kenneth Romeo" <kenro at stanford.edu>
To: "'Josh Baron'" <Josh.Baron at marist.edu>,
<pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org>,
Cc: <sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org>,
<portfolio at collab.sakaiproject.org>
Date: 06/05/2013 04:19 PM
Subject: RE: Teaching & Learning] Teaching and Learning Gathering
at Open Apereo Conference (San Diego)
Josh (and everyone on the list),
Thanks for organizing the session, and for sending this out. Unfortunately
I am unable to attend Sakai this year, but I am glad that the T&L group is
meeting. If I was there, I’d hope that we could somehow re-orient
ourselves to the current landscape. Quite a bit has changed since the days
before OAE, when we talked about the learning capabilities and design
lenses. However, I feel that the process you, David, Lynn, and Clay led
us through was really valuable: we started from an anything-goes list of
whatever we wanted and narrowed it down through successive iterations to
seven overarching concepts.
It is tempting to suggest that we do the same thing again, but it is
possible that the circumstances are different enough that it would not be
as productive. At that point we were focused on one piece of software:
the next generation of Sakai. In retrospect, it also entailed a number of
assumptions as well, such as a limited range of devices, infrastructure,
and instructional approaches. Another assumption was that Sakai was an
open collaboration of many freely participating individuals and
institutions.
At least in my own experience teaching and supporting those who teach
(mostly language), while we now have many more options available (Google
Apps, MOOC platforms, blog and wiki software, online courses, tablets for
check-out, classroom video capture, approved 3rd party services, etc), it
is often the case that these don’t work together, or don’t cover all of
our needs. Not all institutions are the same, but it does seem that many
places are still trying to figure out how the LMS fits into the solutions
that they offer to faculty, staff, and students. In addition, all of this
is happening while universities themselves are redefining their
identities, and their budgets.
It might be useful to find different ways to think outside of out of the
box software. My own paradigm for doing this is high stakes testing,
because it is a big part of what I do. We do tests of spoken and written
language that require coordinating not just Sakai, but also physical
space, network, hardware and human resources. It is by no means a perfect
system, but we are slowly finding ways to improve it without just
contracting out to Pearson or someplace else. As I constantly tell
people, if we say anything about the potential of instructional
technology, we have to be thinking about a way to get rid of all of the
blue books that are used on college campuses.
There are certainly other ways to approach this (learning analytics and
portfolios come to mind), but it might be useful to loosen our focus on
the LMS just a bit in an effort to see get a better idea of how to move
forward. My guess is that it will have as much to do with partnerships,
protocols, and privacy, but I am sure that there are many other
perspectives. This certainly isn’t something that is going to be solved
in a 45 minute session, but I am hopeful that the T&L group can be a place
to start.
Ken Romeo, PhD
[http://kenro.web.stanford.edu]
Academic Technology Specialist [http://ats.stanford.edu]
Stanford Language Center [http://language.stanford.edu]
From: pedagogy-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [
mailto:pedagogy-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Josh Baron
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 9:14 PM
To: pedagogy at collab.sakaiproject.org
Cc: sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org; portfolio at collab.sakaiproject.org
Subject: [DG: Teaching & Learning] Teaching and Learning Gathering at Open
Apereo Conference (San Diego)
Note: Apologies for the cross list postings.
Colleagues,
As some of you are already aware, we have scheduled a Teaching and
Learning Gathering at the Open Apereo conference which will be held on
Thursday, June 6th from 10:45 AM to 11:30 AM in Diamond I. For those who
may be new to the community, the Sakai Teaching and Learning Group has
been organizing "gatherings" of this nature for many years as means to
organize ourselves, set priorities and develop plans for the coming year.
I would like to invite anyone, regardless of your background or role, who
is interested in participating or just listening in to attend. If you are
unable to make it, please feel free to post your thoughts, questions and
ideas on one of these lists.
I also wanted to highlight that in addition to discussing our own
activities, we have invited members from the Sakai CLE Technical
Coordination Committee (TCC) to join the gathering to discuss how our
groups might be able to collaborate and support each other. I see this as
a strategically important dialog for us, as a community, to be having at
this point in our history and hope that folks will attend and participate
in it.
See you next week!
Josh
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Joshua Baron
Senior Academic Technology Officer
Marist College
Poughkeepsie, New York 12601
(845) 575-3623 (work)
Twitter: JoshBaron
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