Lessons Learned in Learner Collaboration

Skip WardInstructional Lunch, December 3, 2012

Basic Assumptions- Adult Learner Preferences

•Choice

•Application to past, present or future profession

What are the instructional implications?

Basic Assumptions on How Business Operates

•Teams

•Technology- emerged, emerging, and not yet around, but on its way

What are the instructional implications?

So how does choice, applicability, team work and technology come together to promote collaboration?

Lesson Learned: Cooperation is not the same as collaboration

Lesson Learned: Teams Need Structure at Team Kick-Off

•First team meeting tool Freeconferencecall•Go forward tools

Google + Google HangoutSkypeTeam FB page

•Agreement on charter (dysfunctional team members)

In your first team meeting-

Re-introduce one another.

It will be useful if you have every team member’s slide in front of you to add a few notes about them. What are your technical skills and team strengths?

Go through each of the six topics.

Every team member should give an opinion on what they think of each topic. Settle on the topic.

Decide on a team lead for this activity.

The lead will have to keep all on track- OTIF- On time and in full!

Who does what by when?

When and how will you meet next?

Your team will create a 2 page, single spaced Ariel 12 briefing paper on one of the following topics.

•Each team should embed a Prezi or (no more than 6 slides) PowerPoint in their paper.

•If you do a PowerPoint, create a SlideShare account and link to the slide pack that you have uploaded to SlideShare.) •Each paper must end with 5 insightful, “makes you think”, discussion questions.

•Go to TED Talks, TED Ed, go to You Tube, put in a topic, select a video related to your paper and then flip it!

•Put the link to your flipped video in your paper.

•You cannot just repeat what is in the book. You must go beyond the book with other information that supports your thoughts from other legitimate web based sites.

•List your information sources at the end of the paper with hyperlinks.

Lesson Learned: Need to built team review of each individual’s work as a step in the collaboration process. QA/QC

Lessons Learned: New tools emerge in non-business settings that will enhance collaboration

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1. Cooperation is not the same as collaboration

2. Teams Need Structure at Team Kick-Off

3. Need to built team review of each individual’s work as a step in the collaboration process. QA/QC

4. New tools emerge in non-business settings that will enhance collaboration