Technology integration experience for educators

Registration

The Open Online Experience (#OOE13) was a year-long K-16 professional development program focused on educational technology. Registration details below describe how the 2013–2014 cohort took part.

2013–2014 program cycle

Who could register

Registration was open to any teacher or faculty member with internet access. Participants joined as co-creators, mentors and members of the wider participant map, sharing resources and experiences across the year.

Open to teachers and faculty across K-16 settings.
Internet access was the only stated requirement.
Registration ran for the 2013–2014 cohort.
The program ran from June 2013 to June 2014.

What registration covered

Once registered, participants joined the shared digital spaces where the year's learning took place:

Program spaces and their uses
Space	Use during the program
Twitter, using #ooe13	Conversation, updates and sharing links with the cohort
Diigo groups	Saving and sharing resources on the monthly learning topics
Google+ communities	Group discussion and reflection with other participants
Blogs	Participant posts and reflections, collected in the blog collections

Monthly learning topics

Registration placed each participant in a year of scheduled topics, moving through the themes below in sequence:

Connectivism and being connected (October 2013)
Digital Citizenship (November 2013)
Digital Literacy (January 2014)
Content Curation (February 2014)
Student Directed Learning: Digital Storytelling — Multimedia, Remixes & Mashups (March 2014)

Sessions began in September 2013, and the program concluded in June 2014 with final posts appearing in May and June 2014.

Registration for the Open Online Experience welcomed any teacher or faculty member with internet access, reflecting the open, participatory character of this year-long K-16 professional development program focused on educational technology. Rather than a passive audience, participants were invited to join as co-creators, mentors, and active members of a wider participant map, sharing resources, ideas, and classroom experiences throughout the program cycle. Entry was deliberately low-barrier so that educators across varied school settings could contribute to the ongoing conversation about content, curation, digital literacy, and meaningful technology integration in teaching and learning.

Next steps

If you are looking for the general overview of the program, including its connectivist model, read the About page. For community spaces and the tools mentors used, continue with the start and blog pages.

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