Technology integration experience for educators
Common questions and answers about participation, technology requirements, and the structure of the Open Online Experience — a year-long professional development program for K-16 educators that ran from June 2013 to June 2014.
Participants and mentors worked with a set of social media and curation tools throughout the program. Per-tool help pages are kept in the mentor materials, alongside the wider list of recommended resources.
Continue from the program home page or review the Blog Collections.
OOE13 was a year-long professional development program for K-16 educators focused on educational technology integration. It ran from June 2013 to June 2014 and was open to any teacher or faculty member with internet access. Participants worked as co-creators and mentors, and a map of participants tracked the network across the year.
The program was designed on a connectivist model, where knowledge is distributed across a network of connections rather than delivered in one place. Learning happened through shared resources, conversation, and the collective experience of the group.
Sessions began in September 2013 and each month centered on a learning topic. Topic 2 (October 2013) covered Connectivism and being connected; Topic 3 (November 2013) covered Digital Citizenship; Topic 5 (February 2014) covered Content Curation; and Topic 6 (March 2014) covered Student Directed Learning: Digital Storytelling — Multimedia, Remixes & Mashups. Digital Literacy was covered in January 2014. Final posts appeared in May and June 2014, when the program concluded.
Participants contributed to the network by sharing resources, reflections, and connections. The program used social media tools including Twitter with the #ooe13 hashtag, Diigo groups, Google+ communities, and blogs — so regular participation in those spaces was how the community stayed connected.
The only stated requirement for joining was internet access. Beyond that, participants used their own accounts on tools such as Twitter, Diigo, and Google+, along with their own blogs, so a personal blog and a set of social profiles were part of the standard setup.
Yes. The program referenced related online professional development efforts, including DNLE (Stanford) and ETMOOC.
| Question | Where to look |
|---|---|
| How do I join and begin? | Getting Started |
| How does registration work? | Registration |
| Where do I read participant writing? | Blog Collections |
| Which tools did the program use? | Web Tool Box and the mentor help pages |