MoodleHUB 🎓: Free MOOC-Designing Communities of Inquiry

One of the folks at the Moodle Hub posted this in their forums and I wanted to share it with folks here.

Athabasca University and the Commonwealth of Learning are having a free 5-week course (12 March to 15 April 2023) to dig deeper into online pedagogy. If you think this fits your PGP (Professional Growth Plan) in any sense, do register at https://www.dcoimooc.org/

You will also see me in the course as I am one of the facilitators.

Happy Learning!

If you follow the link, you’ll get to this information:

REGISTRATION IS OPEN

DCOI MOOC begins 12 March 2023 – register today!

A MOOC FOR DESIGNING COMMUNITIES OF INQUIRY

The Community of Inquiry (CoI) is a pedagogical model that supports digital teaching and learning. The introductory-level Designing for Communities of Inquiry in Online Courses (DCOI) massive open online course will explore the why and how of using the CoI as the basis for developing and teaching high quality online and blended courses. This free, 5-week MOOC provided by the Commonwealth of Learning in partnership with Athabasca University is open to administrators, teachers, and other educational professionals.

Be sure to download the brochure for further details and distribution through your personal and professional networks.

DCOI AT A GLANCE

Schedule	12 March to 15 April 2023 (5 weeks)
Registration	Full registration is open now
Intended audience	Higher education, K-12, and vocational administrators, teachers, and other educational professionals from the Commonwealth and around the world
Language	English
Expected workload	5 hours per week (25 hours total)
Challenge level	Introductory
Pre-requisites	None
Certification	Certificates of Participation and Completion available (at no charge)

ABOUT THE MOOC

REGISTRATION FOR DCOI IS NOW OPEN

Click below to register in the Designing for Communities of Inquiry MOOC for our 12 March to 15 April 2023 offering.

REGISTER IN DCOI

MoodleHUB 🎓: Leading Change in Teaching and Learning for a Digital World

This professionally learning opportunity may be of interest to some readers.

MoodleHUB  » Forums » Announcements » Leading Change in Teaching and Learning for a Digital World

	Leading Change in Teaching and Learning for a Digital World by Angelo DelliSanti – Sunday, 13 March 2022, 9:44 PM
	Just a reminder that if you want to learn more about Online learning from a leader perspective of lens do not hesitate to register for this free 4 week MOOC that starts on March 26th. It is free and designed by the Commonwealth of Learning and Athabasca University. Learn more and register here: https://www.lctl.org/

[CNIE-L] MDDE 660: Professional Seminar on Leadership in Education Innovation at Athabasca University

From Friday’s inbox…  Something that may be of particular interest to my Canadian readers…

New course being offered in the Centre for Distance Education, Athabasca University

MDDE 660: Professional Seminar on Leadership in Education Innovation

Delivery mode: Online course using Moodle

Credits: 3 – Elective

Prerequisites: None

Instructor Winter 2015: Marti Cleveland-Innes and Albert Sangra Morer

Overview

As participants in an online community of inquiry, students will cover general leadership theory, issues in contemporary education leadership, leadership in distance, distributed, and online education and special topics on leadership, as they relate to educational technology, innovation and change.  Students will be required to bring issues, problems and cases to the class for analysis, evaluation, and strategy development.

The course is paced and supported by asynchronous and synchronous meetings and conferencing.  Moodle will be used as the online learning platform.  The platform will allow for social, emotional, cognitive and teaching/learning presence to emerge in an online community of inquiry.  Course material will be divided into segments and provided electronically according to weekly coverage and activities.

Required readings will be chosen by the instructor from a list of appropriate materials for the course.  Other readings will be chosen by the participants within the course, as they relate to leadership issues and cases chosen for study by the group.

Adobe Connect will be used for course launch, guest speaker presentations, student case debates and presentations, and course closure.

Learning activities will include reading, asynchronous discussion, synchronous presentation, discussion and debate, case study and presentation, watching video, listening to and discussing topics with guest speakers and assignment creation.

To register or find out more, contact “Serena Henderson” <shenderson@athabascau.ca> or Dr. Cleveland-Innes.
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Dr. Martha Cleveland-Innes
Professor and Chair
Centre for Distance Education
Athabasca University
Guest Professor, Department of Learning
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden
Phone: 1-800-788-9041, ext. 6426
Skype: martha.cleveland

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CIDER Call And Next Session

I received this message in my inbox yesterday.  The session itself is likely of little interest to my readers, but the call for future sessions for the Fall 2009 and Winter 2010 sessions may be an opportunity for my Canadian K-12 online learning audience to get some additional K-12 content in these sessions.

The Fall 2009 schedule of CIDER Sessions is now in the planning phase, and we are looking for distance educators interested in sharing their research related work with our online community. CIDER sessions are targeted at distance education researchers, graduate students, and practitioners. Each session features an active researcher talking about their project, methodologies used, and their results. The sessions are presented free of charge and recorded for playback from the CIDER site. If you are interested in presenting your research in a future CIDER session, please contact Lynn Anderson:
lynnlo@cogeco.ca

Our next CIDER session:

We would like to invite you to the next presentation in our series of free CIDER sessions. Our next session features a presentation and discussion with Dr. Jamie Rossiter, Department of Education, University of Oxford (currently at Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa).

Title: Adaptation of Online Courses for New Educational Contexts

One of the challenges in online learning is adaptation of material developed for one educational setting to be appropriate in another. Qualitative case-study research explored adaptation of online continuing education modules, developed by the Public Health Agency of Canada for public health practitioners. Two adaptations were studied: into the College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, and for practitioners in the English-speaking Caribbean. The first case involved adaptation for different learners, but in a similar culture. The second case involved similar learners, but in a different culture.

Results show that adaptation of existing online courses can be practicable, and may take less time and fewer resources to implement than creation of a new course. Benefits extended beyond immediate educational objectives to address strategic goals of both originating and recipient organizations.

When: Wednesday, June 3, 2009, 11am-12pm MDT (Edmonton)

Where: Online via Elluminate at:

https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.8B71B60F2931D029AC3837DC06B70D