"Personal Learning: Taking Ownership of Learning Online".

Manisha Khetarpal (Maskwacis Cultural College)

Location: Online

Region(s): Other (I am not part of a CALP-funded organization)

"Personal Learning: Taking Ownership of Learning Online".
August 27, 9-11 am MDT Edmonton

Description: The terms “personalized learning” and “personal learning” are frequently used in online learning but are very different concepts.

Join Stephen Downes, a specialist in online learning technology and new media, for an interactive session to assist faculty and instructors on how to help students succeed by taking ownership of their learning online utilizing the concept of personal learning.

In this microlearning, you learn:

• The difference between ‘personalized learning’ and ‘personal learning’.

• Why personal learning is the preferred concept for student success.

• Key starting points for personal learning, objectives, learning processes and forms of evaluation that best suit personal learning.

• Strategies to implement personal learning in the form of support for remote teaching, online learning, and lifelong learning. 

• Suggested tools and technologies.

Stephen Downes https://www.downes.ca/

Researcher, National Research Council Canada 

Research Associate @Contact North I Contact Nord

Stephen Downes is a specialist in online learning technology and new media, one of the originators of the first Massive Open Online Course, has published frequently about online and networked learning, has authored learning management and content syndication software, and is the author of the widely read e-learning newsletter OLDaily. Through a thirty-year career Downes has contributed pioneering work in the fields of online learning games, learning objects and metadata, podcasting, open educational resources. He is a popular keynote speaker and has spoken in three dozen countries on six continents.

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