Hello everyone!
Spring 2012 semester is just around the corner... Once again we will be running the MDE Orientation on the second week of class (running from Jan 30th through February 8th).
The MDE Orientation is always a great opportunity for NEW students to get acquainted with the program, and learn how to get started with their ePortfolio, as well as to ask questions about their study plans and understand the program more fully. There are some novelties in the Spring 2012 edition of the orientation, including a wonderful opportunity to take part in the first MDE cohort of the Learn-to-Learn 5-week course, from the Bridge-to-Success (B2S) project at UMUC.
It is a renewed opportunity for current students to refresh their minds about the existing information, as well as stop during one week, reflect on their learning from past semesters, build onto their ePortfolio, plan their studies and reflect critically on how to be better prepared for their research project at the end of the program. It also provides a great place to connect with other classmates and discuss issues related to the job market.
For graduates, it is an opportunity to share your experience, consider opportunities of engaging with the program in a more active way, share suggestions, and just enhance you network with fellow alumni and new students.
For MDE faculty, it is an opportunity to have exchanges with students and alumni in an informal setting, learn about their concerns and share your views about how to be better prepared for the program, for the capstone and as a professional distance educator.
I invited you all to join me between January 30 and February 8 inside the OMDE 101 9999 0906 tycho classroom (note the section 0906).
If you have never joined the orientation before, please visit http://mdeprogram.weebly.com/mde-orientation-resources.html and follow the procedures indicated there. (Basically, what I need from you is your login username in Tycho, so I can get you rostered in the class.)
If you have any questions, you can send me an email at sporto@umuc.edu
best,
--Stella.
Bridge to Success Learning Coaches: opportunities for the MDE
Here is an interesting opportunity for MDE graduates or VERY senior MDE students!
Bridge for Success is a project involving several institutions and foundations, including UMUC. This has created a wonderful opportunity for those interested in engaging in e-learning activities with the skills and competencies they have developed as distance educators.
"Bridge to Success (B2S) offers open, free content to cross the barrier to gaining the skills to learn, providing "bridging" content in mathematics and learning to learn. The bridging approach has been shown to increase learner capability and confidence, encourage participation, and contribute to the progression of a certificate or degree completion."
"Bridge to Success is made possible through a Next Generation Learning Challenge grant awarded to Anne Arundel Community College, the Open University (UK), University of Maryland University College (UMUC) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). NGLC is led by EDUCAUSE in partnership with The League for Innovation in the Community College, the International Association of K-12 Online Learning and the Council of Chief State School Officers. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation helped design the Next Generation Learning Challenges and fund the initiative."
So here is the opportunity...
There are now 3 open spots for MDE graduates (or very senior students) as 'Learning Coaches' associated and paid through this project to work with the Open content, starting with the course modules from Learn-to-Learn:
What should learning coaches will be doing?
Bridge for Success is a project involving several institutions and foundations, including UMUC. This has created a wonderful opportunity for those interested in engaging in e-learning activities with the skills and competencies they have developed as distance educators.
"Bridge to Success (B2S) offers open, free content to cross the barrier to gaining the skills to learn, providing "bridging" content in mathematics and learning to learn. The bridging approach has been shown to increase learner capability and confidence, encourage participation, and contribute to the progression of a certificate or degree completion."
"Bridge to Success is made possible through a Next Generation Learning Challenge grant awarded to Anne Arundel Community College, the Open University (UK), University of Maryland University College (UMUC) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). NGLC is led by EDUCAUSE in partnership with The League for Innovation in the Community College, the International Association of K-12 Online Learning and the Council of Chief State School Officers. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation helped design the Next Generation Learning Challenges and fund the initiative."
So here is the opportunity...
There are now 3 open spots for MDE graduates (or very senior students) as 'Learning Coaches' associated and paid through this project to work with the Open content, starting with the course modules from Learn-to-Learn:
Learning to Learn provides opportunities for students to identify prior learning and life experiences that will help them transition to more formal learning, identify individual strengths and skills and set goals for personal and professional development.
The link for the course is:
What should learning coaches will be doing?
- Be familiar with the course material
- Determine how course will be delivered: Will it be self-pace? or Will there be deadlines for units? Will students have to submit anything in the classroom or to the coach
- Invite pre-selected pool of students to join the course
- Ensure that students have registered for an Open Learning course
- Provide a short orientation for students to Lab Space and to the course
- Highlight certain topics in the course as a method of encouraging students to participate
- Ask students to fill out the pre-assessment questions
- Use discussion forum in Lab Space to engage with students throughout the five units
- Email students that are not present in the course and ask them to review the materials
- Be available throughout the course to answer student questions as students proceed through the course
- Ask students to fill out post-assessment questions
For MDE Learning Coaches, we are planning to have them connected and working with a cohort from Core4women (http://www.core4women.org), a cohort for new and prospective MDE students, and another selected cohort from UMUC prospective students.
If you are interested in engage in this wonderful opportunity, please send me an email sporto@umuc.edu by December 9th. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me as well.
best,
--Stella.
The MDE Weekly - Nov.15
New version of the MDE Weekly is out! Lots of news and new information in distance education and e-learning.
The MDE Weekly
The MDE Weekly
Fall'2011 MDE Orientation starts September 20th
Hello everyone!
Fall 2011 will be starting soon, and once again we will be running the MDE Orientation. HOWEVER, this term the orientation starts in the third week of class (because of conflicting travel), starting therefore on September 20th and running through the 30th.
The MDE Orientation is always a great opportunity for NEW students to get acquainted with the program, and learn how to get started with their ePortfolio, as well as to ask questions about their study plans and understand the program more fully. There is a lot more in the Fall 2011 edition of the orientation when it comes to study plans, advising and details about each of the resources available to the MDE community.
It is a renewed opportunity for current students to refresh their minds about the existing information, as well as stop during one week, reflect on their learning from past semesters, build onto their ePortfolio, plan their studies and reflect critically on how to be better prepared for their research project at the end of the program. It also provides a great place to connect with other classmates and discuss issues related to the job market.
For graduates, it is an opportunity to share your experience, consider opportunities of engaging with the program in a more active way, share suggestions, and just enhance you network with fellow alumni and new students.
For MDE faculty, it is an opportunity to have exchanges with students and alumni in an informal setting, learn about their concerns and share your views about how to be better prepared for the program, for the capstone and as a professional distance educator.
I invited you all to join me between September 20 and 30 inside the OMDE 101 9999 0906 tycho classroom (note the section 0906).
If you have never joined the orientation before, please visit http://mdeprogram.weebly.com/mde-orientation-resources.html and follow the procedures indicated there. (Basically, what I need from you is your login username in Tycho, so I can get you rostered in the class.)
If you have any questions, you can send me an email at sporto@umuc.edu
best,
--Stella.
Fall 2011 will be starting soon, and once again we will be running the MDE Orientation. HOWEVER, this term the orientation starts in the third week of class (because of conflicting travel), starting therefore on September 20th and running through the 30th.
The MDE Orientation is always a great opportunity for NEW students to get acquainted with the program, and learn how to get started with their ePortfolio, as well as to ask questions about their study plans and understand the program more fully. There is a lot more in the Fall 2011 edition of the orientation when it comes to study plans, advising and details about each of the resources available to the MDE community.
It is a renewed opportunity for current students to refresh their minds about the existing information, as well as stop during one week, reflect on their learning from past semesters, build onto their ePortfolio, plan their studies and reflect critically on how to be better prepared for their research project at the end of the program. It also provides a great place to connect with other classmates and discuss issues related to the job market.
For graduates, it is an opportunity to share your experience, consider opportunities of engaging with the program in a more active way, share suggestions, and just enhance you network with fellow alumni and new students.
For MDE faculty, it is an opportunity to have exchanges with students and alumni in an informal setting, learn about their concerns and share your views about how to be better prepared for the program, for the capstone and as a professional distance educator.
I invited you all to join me between September 20 and 30 inside the OMDE 101 9999 0906 tycho classroom (note the section 0906).
If you have never joined the orientation before, please visit http://mdeprogram.weebly.com/mde-orientation-resources.html and follow the procedures indicated there. (Basically, what I need from you is your login username in Tycho, so I can get you rostered in the class.)
If you have any questions, you can send me an email at sporto@umuc.edu
best,
--Stella.
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