we don't need no educator

We don’t need no educatorThe role of the teacher in today’s online education

Stephen DownesUtdanningskonferansen 2013

15 February, 2013, Bergen, Norway

The Entertainer

“…the single most important factor affecting student achievement is teachers.”

http://www.epi.org/publication/books_teacher_quality_execsum_intro/

So we’re told, anyway…

In fact there numerous factors: parental income & educational attainment, social factors & expectations, social equity, genetic predisposition…

That aside, if we just look at educators, we see dramatic changes in the traditional role of the educator… as though the educator is disappearing

1.Pull apart the roles of the educator in an online world

2.Identify those roles in the context of the massive open online course

3.Provide practical examples and applications

Today’s Three-fold Task:

A historical trend…

… will continue today

The context….(connectivism)

• Educators are no longer ‘the experts’

• Learning is no longer about content transfer

• Teaching takes place in an authentic environment

• Learning consists of engagement, experimentation and communication

Today

http://www.complexityexplorer.org/

A course about complexity…

Six Thousand Courses

http://myeducationpath.com/courses

http://www.mooc.ca/

CCK08

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Other MOOCs Courses

cMOOC vs xMOOC

networks contentstasks

http://lisahistory.net/wordpress/2012/08/three-kinds-of-moocs/

http://ds106.us/history/

https://www.ai-class.com/

https://www.coursera.org/

The Roles….

Teacher asExpert Teacher as

Learner

Teacher as Coach

Teacher as Designer

1

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http://reader.google.com

http://www.tweetdeck.com/

#hashtag

http://learnonline.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/10-minute-lecture-george-siemens-curatorial-teaching/

http://ds106.us/

http://change.mooc.ca/newsletter.htm

http://bit.ly/sfnEF6

2. Designer2

http://grsshopper.downes.ca/

http://ds106.us/ds106-radio/http://www.downes.ca/edradio.htm

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3

http://www.feynmanonline.com/

http://www.downes.ca/post/44760

http://www.scoop.it/t/edumooc/

https://plus.google.com/

http://www.slideshare.net/choconancy/change11-mooc-session-october-31

http://change2011inbendigovictoriaaustralia.blogspot.com/

The Conversationalist

4 expert4

http://www.downes.ca/me/presentations.htm

http://change.mooc.ca/recordings.htm

http://cogdogblog.com/

http://www.livestream.com

http://fm.schmoller.net/

https://www.ai-class.com/

http://erikduval.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/the-speed-of-tech-owd11/

http://www.learninganalytics.net/

http://www.downes.ca