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.
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