In week one and two, we will get to know each other, together discuss the outline and organization of the course (including the badge structure), get familiar with the technology, and begin getting an overview of the theoretical underpinnings of the field.

Week 1 (April 25-May 1)

• two meetings on Big Blue Button (you only need to attend one, we will use Doodle after this to determine a single weekly time that fits most people): Tuesday April 26 at 6PM, and Friday April 29th at 1PM. LINK (watch this video about how BBB works)
• Readings:
  • Constructivism on EduTechWiki (feel free to explore sublinks)
  • Communities of Practice on infed - the encyclopedia of informal learning

Week 2 (May 2-May 8)

• one meeting on Big Blue Button (time to be determined)
• Readings:
  • CSCL on EduTechWiki
  • Situated learning on EduTechWiki
  • Community of practice on EduTechWiki
  • CSCL: An Historical Perspective. by Gerry Stahl, Timothy Koschmann and Daniel Suthers based on a chapter in: R. K. Sawyer (Ed.). (2006). Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
  • Technology affordances for intersubjective learning: a thematic agenda for CSCL. by Dan Suthers. In Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Computer support for collaborative learning: learning 2005: the next 10 years! (CSCL '05). International Society of the Learning Sciences 662-671.