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We don’t need no educator The role of the teacher in today’s online education Stephen Downes Utdanningskonferansen 2013 15 February, 2013, Bergen, Norway

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Described the changing nature of online learning with the introduction of massive open online courses, and in that context describes and explains the changing roles of the educator, For aduio and video please see http://www.downes.ca/presentation/311

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

Stephen DownesUtdanningskonferansen 2013

15 February, 2013, Bergen, Norway

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The Entertainer

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“…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…

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

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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

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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:

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A historical trend…

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… will continue today

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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

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Today

http://www.complexityexplorer.org/

A course about complexity…

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Six Thousand Courses

http://myeducationpath.com/courses

http://www.mooc.ca/

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CCK08

http://connect.downes.ca/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?page=thedaily.htm

http://wwwapps.cc.umanitoba.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=20

2300 students

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2800 students

1800 students

3000 studentshttp://edfuture.net/ http://change.mooc.ca/

http://connect.downes.ca/

Other MOOCs Courses

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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/

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The Roles….

Teacher asExpert Teacher as

Learner

Teacher as Coach

Teacher as Designer

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http://www.downes.ca/opml.xml

http://reader.google.com

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http://www.tweetdeck.com/

#hashtag

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

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http://ds106.us/

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

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http://bit.ly/sfnEF6

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2. Designer2

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http://grsshopper.downes.ca/

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

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http://bit.ly/qxkXTX

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http://www.feynmanonline.com/

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

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

https://plus.google.com/

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

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http://change2011inbendigovictoriaaustralia.blogspot.com/

The Conversationalist

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4 expert4

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

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

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http://cogdogblog.com/

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http://www.livestream.com

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http://fm.schmoller.net/

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

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

http://www.learninganalytics.net/

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http://www.downes.ca