Week 1: January 9 | Introduction

  • Review course outline expectations
  • Orientation to the technology
  • Course social learning networks

Week 2: January 16 | Exploring our Beliefs about Learning and Teaching

  • Guest speaker: Chris Reck: empowering educators to integrate mindfulness-based practices into teaching and learning.
  • Debrief Most Likely to Succeed

Week 3: January 23 The Mediation of Knowledge and Scaling Up

  • Learning Theory and the Impact on Pedagogy. Please complete readings prior to our Tuesday class.
  • Reflect upon your epistemological and theoretical position related to teaching and learning.

Week 4: January 30 Seeking Alignment in Learning Design and Signature Pedagogies

  • Creation and sharing or learning design visualizations
  • Alignment in learning design
  • Signature pedagogies

Week 5: February 6 Learning Resource Design and Open Education 

  • Teachers as content creators
  • Sourcing, reusing, remixing, and sharing learning resources

Week 6: February 13: Cocreating the Classroom with Guest Speaker Trevor MacKenzie 

Week 7: February 20 Reading Break

Week 8: February 27 Assessment Design

Week 9: March 5 Presentations / Guest speakers / Emergent Topics

Week 10: March 12 Presentations / Guest speakers / Emergent Topics

Week 11: March 19 Presentations / Guest speakers / Emergent Topics

Week 12: March 26 Presentations / Guest speakers / Emergent Topics

Week 13: April 2 Reflecting on the term and next steps