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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.

• Email:  hollandcodes@gmail.com

• Blogs –

Blogger - http://hollandcodes.blogspot.com/2013/12/what-are-moocs.html

Igroops - http://bit.ly/1kXGBtX

Wordpress - http://hollandcodes.wordpress.com/2013/12/26/mooc/

• Delicious - https://delicious.com/hollandcodes

****Please use hashtag #careerexplorer.

• Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/careerexploration

****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 –

http://ww.linkedin.com/in/drmaryaskew/

Career Explorers Network - http://linkd.in/1dQCjPQ

• MOOC - https://canvas.instructure.com/enroll/BXW7TM - Free enrollment in career development course

• Twitter - https://twitter.com/Momentum4M

****Please use hashtag #careerexplorer.

• YouTube – Share your favorite career awareness, college major, or career planning video – http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsgvJY4-3Imt7pLG3DYFNKw

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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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:

• Apostolos Koutropoulos. MOOCs in Higher Education: Options, Affordances, Pitfalls (Part 1). http://www.learningsolutionsmag.com/articles/1205/moocs-in-higher-education-options-affordances-pitfalls-part-1
•  Audrey, got MOOC? http://blogs.pstcc.edu/teachtech/2013/01/30/got-mooc/
• Author. Types of MOOC and what they mean. http://ditresearchmethods.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/three-types-of-mooc/
• Donald Clark, MOOCs: Taxonomy of 8 Types of MOOC.  http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/moocs-taxonomy-of-8-types-of-mooc.html
• Gráinne Conole. A new classification for MOOCs. http://mooc.efquel.org/a-new-classification-for-moocs-grainne-conole/ 
• Martin Lugton. What is a MOOC? What are the different types of MOOC? xMOOCs and cMOOCs. http://reflectionsandcontemplations.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/what-is-a-mooc-what-are-the-different-types-of-mooc-xmoocs-and-cmoocs/

Read about MOOCs

What are MOOCs?

MOOC = Massive Open Online Course

MOOCs are -

• FREE 
• Open
• Participatory

In a MOOC, you -

• Connect
• Collaborate 
• Engage in the learning process
• Network
•  Decide how and when you want to participate

The Career Explorers Network has facts about MOOCs for educational and career professionals.   The network goals are to  –

• Build partnerships between educational and career professionals
• Create a 24/7 personalized, digital learning program to show students the connect between education to real-life careers
•  Build a connection between student’s interests and potential careers
• Share career awareness, career education, and career development resources
•  Help prepare students to complete in global, knowledge based, innovation centered economy
•  Provide personalized professional development for teachers, administrators, and school staff
•  Continue learning about digital learning

Get more information -      
       Uses for MOOCs
       Types of MOOCs
       Holland Codes MOOC Course 

Digital Technology Meets ConnectED Initiative

According to ConnectED Initiative speech at the Mooresville Middle School (6/6/13):

• We are to...grow our economy and to reignite the engine that powers our economy -- and that's a rising and thriving middle class where everybody has opportunity ...
• ...We've got to make sure that our young people -- all you guys -- have every tool that you need to go as far as your talents and your dreams and your ambitions and your hard work will take you...
• ...No matter who you are, no matter what you look like, no matter where you come from, every child can learn.  Every child can succeed.  Every child, every day, deserves that chance.  We've got an obligation to give every young person that chance...
• ...And in an age when the world's information is a just click away, it demands that we bring our schools and libraries into the 21st century...  

Hollandcodes.com are pioneering a technological shift by creating career decision making videos and digital courses for children of all ages!

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Overview of Career Decision Making Digital Courses

Career Decision Making Goes Digital and Online!

 The Career Decision Making Courses are digital career assessments that available online  any where at any time.  The tools include:

• Career tests
• Career web sites
• Career database
• College database 
• Career videos
• Career check lists and activities
• Top Employee Skills   

The courses are used conjunction with Holland Codes career tests:

• Self - Directed Search
• Picture Interest Career Survey
• RIASEC Inventory
• My Career Profile
• Strong Interest Inventory

Our two career planning courses are:

• Career Decision Making Tools
• Test Drive Your Career Test! You Have The Keys!

The Career Decision Making Tools course leverages technology to explore careers and college majors.   Use your computer, laptop, tablets, or phone to access information.  

Use the course to pinpoint:

• Interests
• Abilities
• Skills
• Talents
• Values 

Ten Top Tips for Selecting a Career Test or Assessment

This Career Decision Making Course will motivate you as you explore careers and college majors.  

The Career Decision Making course has:

• Career Exploration Tools
• College Major Exploration Tools

Career exploration tools provide the following information:

• Overview
• Skills
• Values
• Outlook
• Earning
• Interest Profile
• Working Conditions
• Contact Info
• Areas of Study

College exploration resources lists the following facts:

• Location of School
• Majors Areas of Study
• Name of School
• Size and Cost
• Region in the USA
• Type of School

Career Decision Making Tools

Read about other Career Decision Making videos and courses designed for the following inventories:

• Self Directed Search
• My Career Profile
• RIASEC Inventory
• PIC Interest Survey