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How to Build an Online Learning Community: 6 Theses jessestommel.com/how-to-build-a…
The slides and notes for a virtual plenary talk I'm giving for @UIAinnovation’s #UIAonline. (All slides are transcribed at the link atop this thread.)
Online learning communities need to be hybrid communities.
Our ability to develop community will depend on our willingness to acknowledge trauma that members of our community have and will experience.
Our ability to develop community will depend on our willingness to continue feeling joy, having epiphanies, asking hard questions, and sharing our curiosity with one another.
What we have is a series of online classes with no real infrastructure to support the work students do on college campuses outside and between those classes.
A video of the pre-recorded section of my talk, which was followed by live Q&A and discussion.
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A static recording of a synchronous Zoom conversation doesn’t really count as “asynchronous” learning, at least for the purposes of access. Nor does a mere recording of a face-to-face classroom session.
Robust asynchronous learning requires that students can engage (as full participants) no matter how and when they are available. If we want to provide access to students who can’t be present synchronously, making them flies on the wall after the fact isn’t enough.
We have to build for asynchronous, design real points of entry for students who can’t be physically present at a particular time or in specific ways. This can (and should) intersect with more traditional synchronous face-to-face approaches.
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I purposefully produced three versions of the same talk here: a written transcript, a set of slides with images and text, and a video.
None is a mere copy of the others. Each has content that doesn’t easily transfer from one medium to the next. I also conducted a live discussion and Q&A, which added another layer. And that was also recorded.
I took efforts to make sure each version of this “talk” stood as a thing on its own, without need for additional context. The bulk of my time was spent designing for the folks who couldn’t “attend.”
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Turned in grades today. Every single student got an “A”. Every one of them earned their grade.
If you’re still working on grades, ask yourself, what grade could these students have gotten in any other term? If the answer is that they might have gotten an “A,” they should get that grade for this term. No student should be punished for struggling amidst a pandemic.
I want to be clear. The students in my classes have worked hard, and they’ve risen to a challenge none of us could have anticipated. None of them are unicorns. We’ve all struggled.
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