Co-Creators

Who co-created OOE13

The year-long K-16 professional development program known as OOE13 was built collaboratively. Its co-creators contributed the curriculum, the mentoring, and the daily facilitation that kept a distributed network of teachers learning together.

Because the program was designed on a connectivist model, the co-creators' own links, references, and professional connections became part of the resource base that participants drew on throughout the cycle from June 2013 to June 2014.

• Program design and topic sequencing for each monthly learning topic.
• Mentoring and facilitation across the participant network.
• Connections to wider professional communities and related programs.

Connections forged during the program

Participants followed the work of the co-creators through their own blogs, social channels, and shared bookmarks, and many of those professional connections carried on after the program closed in June 2014. The map of participants and the collected blog posts remain the most direct record of that network.

Related programs that grew alongside the same connectivist approach include DNLE at Stanford and ETMOOC.

• Blog Collections — participant posts and reflections across the 2013–2014 cycle.
• Connecting — the platforms the community used, including Twitter with #ooe13, Diigo groups, and Google+ communities.
• Web Tool Box — the tools mentors recommended to the group.

Questions about participation

If you want to know how the program was organised, how co-creators worked with mentors, or what joining involved, the About page, the FAQs, and the Getting Started guide cover the structure in more detail.

• About Us — what OOE13 was and how the connectivist model shaped it.
• FAQs — program expectations and common questions.
• Getting Started — how to begin with the community.