Monday, January 20, 2014

Network with Career Social Media Tools



Career Explorers Network –
Teachers, Counselors, Career Professionals, Parents, and Students Partnership





The Career Explorers Network is a meeting place for teachers, counselors, career professionals, parents, and students that use social media and MOOCs.  The network will create a collaborative environment to exchange educational and career development ideas and resources.

To connect and communicate with the Career Explorers Network, use your favorite social media tool. 
****Please use the hashtag #careerexplorer.  A hash tag is simply a way to help us view your messages.
  • Blogs –

****Please use hashtag #careerexplorer.

****Please use hashtag #careerexplorer.

  • Google 
           Web site - https://sites.google.com/site/careerexplorernetwork/home
           Group - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/career-explorers-network
  • Linkedin –
Career Explorers Network - http://linkd.in/1dQCjPQ

****Please use hashtag #careerexplorer.

Using career awareness, digital learning, and social resources, students and adults will -
  • Know and value self
  • Build self-esteem and confidence
  • Identify interests, abilities, and skills
  • Build relationships between the school environment and the work force
  • Build academic, communication, problem solving, and social skills
  • Increase awareness of the need for future jobs skills
  • See the connections between learning in school, academic skills, job related skills, and careers
  • See career possibilities
  • See themselves as a future contributor to the job force
  • Build a connection between interests and potential careers
Teachers, counselors, career professionals, and parents -
  • Share career awareness, career education, and career development resources
  • Help prepare students to compete in global, knowledge based, innovation centered economy
  • Get answers to career topics
Teachers, counselors, career professionals, and parents -
  • Share career awareness, career education, and career development resources
  • Help prepare students to compete in global, knowledge based, innovation centered economy
  • Ask questions about career topics
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Wednesday, January 08, 2014

Types of MOOCs

Donald Clark, Gráinne Conole, and other experts provide an excellent review of the types of MOOCs:
  • transferMOOCs – where existing courses are transferred to a MOOC, e.g Coursera courses
  •  madeMOOCs – which are more innovative, making effective use of video and interactive material and are more quality driven, e.g. Udacity courses
  •  synchMOOCs – with a fixed start and end date e.g Coursera or Udacity courses
  •  asynchMOOCs – which don’t have fixed start and end dates and have more flexible assignment deadlines.  These courses can literally be taken anytime, anywhere and clearly work better over different time zones, e.g Coursera or Udacity courses
  •  adaptiveMOOCs – which provide personalised learning experiences/ paths through the content, based on dynamic assessment, data gathering on the course, network building, e.g. Cogbooks courses
  •  groupMOOCs –where the focus is on collaboration in small groups aiming to increase student retention, e.g NovoEd courses
  • cMOOCs (connectivistMOOCS pioneered by Geperge Siemens and Stephen Downes) – which emphasize active learner exploration,  personal learning network, connection/ collaboration across a network of other learners, generation on knowledge, and reflection on learning.  cMOOCs have used a traditional LMS, such as Moodle, as well as technologies such as wikis, blogs, and Twitter
  •  xMOOCs – that provide instructor-guided lesson focusing on knowledge duplication, e.g. university MOOCs
  •  miniMOOCSs  - which are much smaller than the traditional massive MOOCs
  •  tMOOCs (task based MOOCs) – where participants receive guided instruction from an individual/ recorded materials, complete required tasks to progress are, and acquire skills to complete certain types of work  e.g ds106 a Digital Storytelling MOOC
  • GamesMOOC - which uses a guild-hosting site that allows guilds from massively multiplayer online games to create a spot for their groups outside of the game
Sources:
Read about MOOCs