Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/The New School/Connected Courses (2014 Q3)/Course description

Connected Courses is a collaborative network of faculty in higher education developing online, open courses that embody the principles of connected learning and the values of the open web. Our goal is to build an inclusive and expansive network of teachers, students, and educational offerings that makes high quality, meaningful, and socially connected learning available to everyone.

For Fall 2014, our major focus is on running a course for developing and teaching connected courses. The course is designed and taught by faculty from diverse institutions, some of whom are the folks behind successful connected courses such as FemTechNet, ds106, phonar, and the National Writing Project CLMOOC. You can find the syllabus here, and the people involved here.

Unit 4:

Subtopics: Race, Gender, Sexuality, Feminist Pedagogy, Praxis of Networking and Mentoring Goals/ Topics:
 * The Dialogic Creation of Knowledge
 * Networking Across Differences
 * Infrastructuring Equity, Access, and Participation

Learning Objectives:
 * Students will be able to articulate the importance of addressing matters of diversity in the creation of online courses.
 * Students will be able to discuss the topic of “microaggressions” in the classroom, and select appropriate responses to avoid and neutralize such actions.
 * Students will understand the creation and design of a DOCC as a new genre of networked course.
 * Students will be able to create a collection of distributed resources for a specialized topic-based online course.
 * Students will learn how to structure a wikipedia authoring exercise for a specialized topic-based online course.

Find out more about Connected Courses here.

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