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Learning online can be a lonely process 2

3 Looking at the development stage 5 Step Theory (Salmon, 2000, 2002, revising 2012) 1 Access & Motivation 2 Online Socialisation 3 Information Exchange 4Knowledge Construction 5Development Learning online in MOOCs and SPOCs can be a lonely process

4 Beyond Salmon’s five steps We Prefer COOCs

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Vision essential Sharing experience and expertise Passionate about digital technologies in teaching and learning and to promote cultural understanding and democratic participation ‘Oh brave new world that has such people in IT’ Miranda, The Tempest, Shakespeare

Click ‘Join’ ‘One day courses in computers are waste of time’. Founded in 1992 with x 5 members with Toshiba Laptops. Took 3 months to connect them online! website and member profiles in 1994 like Face Book; 800 members in 80 countries who are International policy makers, teachers, teacher educators, researchers and commercial developers; Free to join but members become Fellows by writing an article of 2,000 words or multimodal equivalent in order to share their knowledge with other professionals. High web stats because professionals value the open resource policy Members have access to the extensive archives of debates Funding: non profit making: the website, online forums, seminars, workshops and projects run by members are funded by international partner companies and government agencies

JPC Founded in 1992: approximately 800 members in 80 countries MirandaNet is ‘Like a medieval guild for educators’ Wenger 1998 Spans national, cultural, commercial and political divides An innovative and inclusive forum for professional educators in industry, research, policy Partnership with industry and Government at the heart of the research, development and evaluation processes that underpin and support good practice in teaching and learning Individual learning patterns are celebrated through action research strategies and peer e- mentoring. Dissemination and publication central to the Fellowship process. Fellows who share their experience and expertise build a professional knowledge base about the use of advanced technologies in transforming teaching and learning.

9 What is an online teacher community? How does learning work in an informal community of practice in contrast to a formal course ?

10 Salmon – step six– working collaboratively to influence policy and practice Working together in liminal space on creating new knowledge that has not been verified for examination purposes Depends on the spontaneous or formal development of E-Moderators and E-Facilitators who support the learning activity conduct Agreed concepts relying on logical development New knowledge being created in a collaborative iterative process

11 The definition Weaving together individual evidence to create professional theory and practice used to influence policy Largely text based Research through textual analysis and identifying the knowledge creation process Haythornthwaite, C. (2007) ‘New International Theories and Models Of and For Online Learning.’ Chicago IL, USA, First Monday. Last accessed 29th July 2009.

Step Seven: beyond text Collaborative learning in liminal space MirandaMod- an unconference The learning space has diversified, become more democratic and capable of absorbing global voices: wikis; video streaming; Google hang-outs; video conferencing; concept mapping; Twitter stream back channel. 12

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14 Collaborative knowledge construction and dissemination Remotely authored multidimensional concept maps

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MESH – mapping education specialist knowhow

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Want to be involved Free to join MirandaNet Looking for individuals and universities to partner research proposals 19