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Continuing Professional Development:
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Looking at Old Problems in New Ways
Stephen Downes
10th National CPD Accreditation Conference
Mississauga, Ontario
October 2, 2018
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Preliminaries: The Backchannel
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Preliminaries: The Webcast
This talk is being webcast on YouTube Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMqi7rsnWxg
YouTube channel (for other videos): https://www.youtube.com/user/StephenDownes

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Preliminaries: The Backchannel
Faculty: Stephen Downes
Relationships with commercial interests
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None
Where I get Money
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I work for the National Research Council of Canada
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Some external consulting for agencies and NGOs
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Donations on my website – www.downes.ca/donate.htm
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Expenses for talks – www.downes.ca/presentations.htm
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Preliminaries: Objectives
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Assess learning technologies from the perspective of affordances
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Describe core elements of a personal learning environment
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Identify emerging trends in continuing professional development
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Preliminaries: Contents
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Affordances
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Personal Learning
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Old Problems
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Evidence
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1. Affordances
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Solid / Inrupt

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On Saturday Tim Berners-Lee announced he was launching a startup to develop and distribute his SoLiD application (which stands for Social Linked Data)
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The State The Individual


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The State The Individual
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The State The Individual
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The State The Network The Individual
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Groups Networks
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Groups Networks
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SAMENESS
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AFFINITY
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Collectives
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Communities

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ONE WAY
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MANY WAYS
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Groups Networks
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SAMENESS
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AFFINITY
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Collectives
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Communities
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ONE WAY
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MANY WAYS
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Organic – Biological
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Metallic – Elemental
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VISION
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STATEMENT
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SOMETIMES EVEN PURITY
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MELTING POT
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MIXTURES
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SALAD BOWL
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Organic – Biological
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Metallic – Elemental
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VISION
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STATEMENT
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SOMETIMES EVEN PURITY
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MELTING POT
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MIXTURES
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SALAD BOWL
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McMaster Health Sciences
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Groups Networks
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SAMENESS
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AFFINITY
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Collectives
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Communities
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ONE WAY
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MANY WAYS
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Organic – Biological
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Metallic – Elemental
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VISION
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STATEMENT
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SOMETIMES EVEN PURITY
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MELTING POT
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MIXTURES
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SALAD BOWL
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LEADERS! COLLABORATION
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GROUP VALUE
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(= LEADER VALUE)
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COOPERATION
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EXCHANGE
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MUTUAL VA:UE
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Groups Networks
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SAMENESS
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AFFINITY
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Collectives
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Communities
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ONE WAY
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MANY WAYS
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Organic – Biological
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Metallic – Elemental
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VISION
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STATEMENT
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SOMETIMES EVEN PURITY
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MELTING POT
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MIXTURES
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SALAD BOWL
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LEADERS! COLLABORATION
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GROUP VALUE
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(= LEADER VALUE)
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COOPERATION
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EXCHANGE
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MUTUAL VA:UE
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LOCK-IN
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MEMBERSHIP / IN CAMERA
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STANDARDS – JARGON
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WALLS
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CONNECTION
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PERSPECTIVE / CONTEXT
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BRIDGES
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Groups Networks
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SAMENESS
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AFFINITY
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Collectives
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Communities
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ONE WAY
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MANY WAYS
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Organic – Biological
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Metallic – Elemental
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VISION
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STATEMENT
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SOMETIMES EVEN PURITY
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MELTING POT
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MIXTURES
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SALAD BOWL
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LEADERS! COLLABORATION
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GROUP VALUE
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(= LEADER VALUE)
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COOPERATION
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EXCHANGE
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MUTUAL VA:UE
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LOCK-IN
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MEMBERSHIP / IN CAMERA
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STANDARDS – JARGON
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WALLS
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CONNECTION
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PERSPECTIVE / CONTEXT
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BRIDGES
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AKA
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TRICKLE DOWN
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CONVERSATION
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DISTRIBUTED
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DEMOCRACY (OR POST-DEMOCRACY)
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KNOWLEDGE
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EMERGES
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BROADCAST
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STARS AND GURUS
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CENTRALIZED
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POWER – POWER LAWS
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RICH
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KNOWLEDGE,
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LIKE MONEY,
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FLOWS FROM AUTHORITY
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POOR
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Groups Networks
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SAMENESS
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AFFINITY
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Collectives
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Communities
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ONE WAY
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MANY WAYS
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Organic – Biological
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Metallic – Elemental
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VISION
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STATEMENT
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SOMETIMES EVEN PURITY
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MELTING POT
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MIXTURES
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SALAD BOWL
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LEADERS! COLLABORATION
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GROUP VALUE
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(= LEADER VALUE)
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COOPERATION
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EXCHANGE
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MUTUAL VA:UE
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LOCK-IN
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MEMBERSHIP / IN CAMERA
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STANDARDS – JARGON
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WALLS
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CONNECTION
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PERSPECTIVE / CONTEXT
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BRIDGES
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AKA
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TRICKLE DOWN
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CONVERSATION
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DISTRIBUTED
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DEMOCRACY (OR POST-DEMOCRACY)
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KNOWLEDGE
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EMERGES
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BROADCAST
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STARS AND GURUS
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CENTRALIZED
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POWER – POWER LAWS
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RICH
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KNOWLEDGE,
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LIKE MONEY,
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FLOWS FROM AUTHORITY
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POOR
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The MOOC: Course as Network


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The MOOC: Course as Course?

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A contrast between two approaches…

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Mark Mensour
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CAEP
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2. Personal Learning
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Two Approaches…
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Content
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Practice
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Practice
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Content
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Two Approaches…
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Defines an ideal state
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Defines a desired state
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Content
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Practice
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Practice
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Content
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TRY
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TEST
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Person helps you
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Person tests you
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Two Approaches…
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Defines an ideal state
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Defines a desired state
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Content
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Practice
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Iteration
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Correction
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Opport-unity
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GAP
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Practice
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Content
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TRY
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TEST
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Person helps you
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Person tests you
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Library Environment
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Defines an ideal state
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Defines a desired state
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Content
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Practice
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Affordances
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Requirements
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Iteration
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Correction
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Opport-unity
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GAP
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Content
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Practice
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TRY
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TEST
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Person helps you
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Person tests you
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Personalized Personal
We do for you You do for yourself
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Defines an ideal state
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Defines a desired state
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Content
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Practice
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Affordances
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Requirements
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Iteration
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Correction
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Opport-unity
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GAP
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Practice
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Content
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TRY
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TEST
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Person helps you
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Person tests you
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Self-Designed, Self-Directed

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Bob Blumen
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UBC CPD
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Look for a job, contract, project…

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Register for the course

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Personal Learning Workflow
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Personal
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Context
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Article
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Photograph
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Video
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Person
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Author
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Publisher
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Organization
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Job Opportunity
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Competency
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Cetrificate
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Event
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Location / Place
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Time / Date
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Email
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RSS
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OAI
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Sharepoint
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Facebook
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Twitter
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Monster
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Government
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Repositories
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Desire2Learn
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Coursera
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EdX
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etc
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Parsing
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Scraping
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Analytics
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etc
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Storage
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RELATIONS
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Work with various data types

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Creating my personal learning record

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Creating my Personal Learning Record
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Learning Activities
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I read and watch stuff
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I play with toys
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I make stuff
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Stuff Goes Out
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Stuff Comes In
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Things, Properties, Relations
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Things I did
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Stuff I make

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Big stuff goes there
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Questions
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Me
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Personal Library
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Pictures
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Books
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Movies
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Answers
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Learning Analytics Services
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Creating my Personal Learning Record
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This is a new type of data – it’s called the personal graph.
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Each person has their own private personal graph.
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The PLR contains all a person’s learning records, including:
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certificates, badges and credentials
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activity records, test results, scores
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Assignments, papers, drawings, things they create

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Me
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3. Old Problems
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Managing Conflicts of Interest


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Funding of CPD


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Access to CPD




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Identifying Learner Needs



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The Delphi Process?
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Measuring Outcomes

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xAPI

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Improving patient outcomes
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Double Loop
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Resiliency

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4. A Few Words on Evidence
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Is Learning Like Medicine?
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Is online learning an “intervention”
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Should we think of teaching as “treatment”
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Is psychology the same as physiology?
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Is there an educational Hippocratic Oath?
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Evidence
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What counts as “success” in learning?
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What would count as evidence for that?
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Remembering something…
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vs. Being able to do something
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vs. Doing the right thing
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vs. Knowing why it’s right
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vs. Being able to determine what’s right
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Competencies?
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Is an assessment of performance the same as an assessment of the competencies making up that task?
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Resource
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Assessment
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Benefit
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Objective
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Performance
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Competency?
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Bias
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Do we bring the same biases to learning that other people bring to (say) medical research?
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Consider the issues raised by Michael Allen yesterday Michael Allen
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Looking Deeper
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OLDaily Newsletter – 30,000 posts over 17 years
http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm
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E-Learning 3.0 Course starting shortly
http://el30.mooc.ca
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