Online Learning Discussion Group

Goal of the Online Learning Discussion Group

The goal is to discuss effective ways to create and improve online educational resources (e.g., videos, exercises), with a dual focus on using these resources to do research on learning and education, and creating high quality practical resources that can be distributed at scale. 

We will focus on:

As an example, in different meetings we could: 

Details

When & Where: Tentative time is Wednesday at 2 pm, starting Wed 30 January, in Tolman 3201 (Warner Brown Room). 

  That can be changed based on people's schedules, and each week will be modular so if a time doesn't work you can just attend whenever you are free.

Sign up: Sign up at https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/learningeducationresearch to be added to the mailing list/forum or email joseph_williams AT berkeley DOT edu.

Format: Fifty minutes total: 15 minutes of informal presentation on the focal topic, and 35 minutes of discussion.

Webpage for the group: http://www.josephjaywilliams.com/online-learning-discussion-group

Tentative schedule of topics is below.

Tentative Schedule of Topics

Link to open Google Document

Tentative Schedule of Top...Learning Discussion Group

Wiki of Articles & Resources

Content for the group will be added to an associated wiki: 

http://www.cognitivescience.co/learn

E.g. hyperlinks to online PDFs for excellent articles, links to great online resources on research literature, tools for educational research, curriculum standards, conferences, media, organizations and think tanks that could be useful.

Here's an example of the kind of resources we can post: www.cognitivescience.co/learn/resources

Uses of the Mailing List

The group will be used by members to:

* Announce weekly readings.

* Send links to relevant events occurring on campus or online.

* Send links to extremely good resources on linking research to educational practice.

* Draw on the expertise present in the group: We may often be solving similar problems or have similar questions and challenges, and so it'd be good to not reinventing the wheel. Also, we can draw on a range of people who know a lot about particular disciplines and particular topics.