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“Good faith collaboration”

• Reagle, J. M. (2010). Good faith collaboration: The culture of Wikipedia, MIT Press.

Writings about fun and boredom:

• Kano, J. (1995/2013). The Contribution of Judo to Education.

• Pale King, unfinished novel, by David Foster Wallace
• On the Poverty of Student Life, by Mustapha Khayati

The structure of learning:

Check out work by Bruce Tuckman, Gilly Salmon, Ken Wilber, Martin Oliver, Gráinne Conole, Ruth Deakin-Crick, Howard Gardner, and Mihaly Csíkszentmihályi.

Motivation:

• Simon Sinek, Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action, Penguin Books, 2011

Case Study: 5PH1NX:

• Senge, Peter. “The fifth discipline: The art and science of the learning organization.” New York: Currency Doubleday (1990).

Alexandrian Design Patterns:

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• Article, “Manifesto 1991” by Christopher Alexander, Progressive Architecture, July 1991, pp. 108–112, provides a brief summary of Alexander’s ideas in the form of a critique of mainstream architecture. Many of the same sorts of critical points would carry over to mainstream education. Some highlights are excerpted here.
• The Origins of Pattern Theory, the Future of the Theory, And The Generation of a Living World, Christopher Alexander’s talk at the 1996 ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programs, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA)

On Newcomers:

• OpenHatch.org, “an open source community aiming to help newcomers find their way into free software projects.”
• Why do newcomers abandon open source software projects? (sildes by Igor Steinmacher and coauthors)

Antipatterns:

• The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis
• Bourdieu’s notion of “symbolic violence”.

SWATs:

• Cavallo, David. “Emergent design and learning environments: Building on indigenous knowledge.” IBM Systems Journal 39.3.4 (2000): 768-781.

Convening a Group:

• Engeström, Y. (1999). Innovative learning in work teams: Analyzing cycles of knowledge creation in practice. In Y. Engeström, R. Miettinen & R.-L-. Punamäki (Eds.), Perspectives on activity theory, (pp. 377-404). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
• Gersick, C. (1988). Time and transition in work teams: Toward a new model of group development. Academy of Management Journal 31 (Oct.): 9-41.
• Mimi Ito’s observations about manga fan groups co-learning Japanese
• Rheingold U, MindAmp groups
• Shneiderman, B. (2007). Creativity support tools: accelerating discovery and innovation. Commun. ACM 50, 12 (December 2007), 20-32.
• David de Ugarte, Phyles. (Summary) (Book)
• Scheidel, T. M., & Crowell, L. (1964). Idea development in small discussion groups. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 50, 140-145.
• Scheidel, T. M., & Crowell, L. (1979), Discussing and Deciding - A Desk Book for Group Leaders and Members, Macmillan Publishing
• Ozturk and Simsek, “Of Conflict in Virtual Learning Communiities in the Context of a Democratic Pedagogy: A paradox or sophism?,” in Proceedings of the Networked Learning Conference, 2012, Maastricht. Video or text.
• Paragogy Handbook, How to Organize a MOOC
• Cathy Davidson et al., How a Class Becomes a Community

K-12 Peeragogy:

For pointers to tools for your classroom, check out:

• Richard Byrne
• Sylvia Tolisano
• Caitlin Tucker
• Vicki Davis

How to develop your PLN:

• Degrees of Connected Teaching by Rodd Lucier
• TeachThought

Theory & philosophy of connnected learning for classroom transformation:

• David Truss
• Steven Downes
• Will Richardson

Adding Structure with Activities:

• The d.school Bootcamp Bootleg (CC-By-NC-SA) includes lots of fun activities to try. Can you crack the code and define new ones that are equally cool?

• Puzio, R. S. (2005). “On free math and copyright bottlenecks.”Free Culture and the Digital Library Symposium Proceedings.

Co-Facilitation:

• Peer Education: Training of Trainers Manual; UN Interagency Group on Young Peoples Health
• Co Facilitating: Advantages & Potential Disadvantages. J. Willam Pfeifer and John E Johnes
• Summary of John Heron’s model of the role of facilitators
• Carl Rogers, Core Conditions and Education, Encyclopedia of Informal Education
• Peer Mediation, Study Guides and Strategies
• Co-Facilitation: The Advantages and Challenges, Canadian Union of Public Employees
• Bohemia Interactive Community Wiki Guidelines
• Barrett-Lennard, G. T. (1998) Carl Roger’s Helping System. Journey and Substance, London: Sage
• 5 Pillars of Wikipedia, from Wikipedia
• Training the Force US Army Field Manual #FM 7-0 (FM 25-100)
• Learning Reimagined: Participatory, Peer, Global, Online, by Howard Rheingold
• Research Gate is a network dedicated to science and research, in which members connect, collaborate and discover scientific publications, jobs and conferences.>
• Creating and Facilitating Peer Support Groups, by The Community Tool Box
• Facilitation Tips, by Villanova University
• Herding Passionate Cats: The Role of Facilitator in a Peer Learning Process, by Pippa Buchanan
• Reflective Peer Facilitation: Crafting Collaborative Self-Assessment, by Dale Vidmar, Southern Oregon University Library
• Effective Co-Facilitation, by Everywoman’s Center, University of Massachussetts>
• “Teaching smart people how to learn” by Chris Argyris, Harvard Business Review 69.3, 1991; also published in expanded form as a book with the same name.

Assessment:

• Morgan, C. and M. O’Reilly. (1999). Assessing Open and distance learners. London: Kogan Page Limited.
• Schmidt, J. P., Geith, C., Håklev, S. and J. Thierstein. (2009). Peer-To-Peer Recognition of Learning in Open Education. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning. Volume 10, Number 5.
• L.S. Vygotsky: Mind in Society: Development of Higher Psychological Processes
• Reijo Miettinen and Jaakko Virkkunen, Epistemic Objects, Artifacts and Organizational Change, Organization, May 2005, 12: 437-456.

Technologies, Services, and Platforms:

• Irene Greif and Sunil Sarin (1987): Data Sharing in Group Work, ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, vol. 5, no. 2, April 1987, pp. 187-211.
• Irene Greif (ed.) (1988): Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: A Book of Readings, San Mateo, CA: Morgan Kaufman.
• Irene Greif (1988): Remarks in panel discussion on “CSCW: What does it mean?”, CSCW `88. Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, September 26-28, 1988, Portland, Oregon, ACM, New York, NY.
• Kammersgaard, J., Four Different Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction. International Journal of Man-Machine Studies 28(4): 343-362 (1988)
• DeSanctis, G. and Poole, M. S. 1994, ‘Capturing the complexity in advanced technology use: Adaptive structuration theory’, Organisation Science, vol. 5, no. 2, p. 121-47.
• Norman, D. A. 1986, ‘Cognitive engineering’, in Norman, D. A. and Draper, S. W., (eds) User Centered System Design: New Perspectives on Human-Computer Interaction, pp. 31-61. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum and Associates.
• Vessey, I. and Galletta, D. 1991, ‘Cognitive fit: An empirical study of information acquisition’, Information Systems Research, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 63-84.

Real-Time Meetings:

• Howard Rheingold’s webconferencing bookmarks on Delicious.

Additional Tips from an open source perspective

Care of User:Neophyte on the Teaching Open Source wiki.

• The Art of Community
• Open Advice
• The Open Source Way

Forums:

• Rheingold, H. Why use forums? Social Media Classroom.
• Rheingold, H. (1998). The Art of Hosting Good Conversations Online.
• Gallagher, E. J. (2006). Guidelines for Discussion Board Writing. Lehigh University.
• Gallagher, E.J. (2009). Shaping a culture of conversation. The discussion board and beyond. The Academic Commons.
• Academic Technology Center. (2010). Improving the Use of Discussion Boards. Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Paragogy:

• Corneli, J. (2010). Implementing Paragogy, on Wikiversity.
• Corneli, J. and C. Danoff. (2010/2013). Paragogy.net.

Learning vs Training:

• Hart, J. (April 20th, 2012). Is it time for a BYOL (Bring Your Own Learning) strategy for your organization? Learning in the Social Space. Jane Hart’s Blog.

PLNs

• >Rheingold, H. (2010). Shelly Terrell: Global Netweaver, Curator, PLN Builder. DML Central.
• Richardson, W. and R. Mancabelli. (2011). Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connection to Transform Education. Bloomington, IN: Solution Tree Press.
• Howard Rheingold’s PLN links on Delicious

How to Organize a (Massive Open Online Class)

• Downes & Siemens MOOC site
• What Connectivism Is by Stephen Downes
• An Introduction to Connective Knowledge by Stephen Downes
• Facilitating a Massive Open Online Course, by Stephen Downes
• gRSShopper
• Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age by George Siemens
• A Connectivism Glossary
• Rhizomes and Networks by George Siemens
• Rhizomatic Education: Community as Curriculum by Dave Cormier
• Knowing Knowledge, a book by George Siemens
• Net Smart, Howard Rheingold (about internal and external literacies for coping with the ‘always on’ digital era)
• Massive Open Online Courses: Setting Up (StartToMOOC, Part 1)
• The MOOC guide

And, a word list for your inner edu-geek

You can read about all of these things on Wikipedia.

• Constructivism
• Social constructivism
• Radical constructivism
• Enactivism
• Constructionism>
• Connectivism
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