CIDER Sessions
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CIDER has many speakers on tap from across Canada.
Our next session is featured below, or list all Upcoming CIDER Sessions.
Check back often, as this list of upcoming events will be expanded.
Slides and the audiographic recording of all Past CIDER Sessions are available for downloading in the archive.
Our next CIDER session
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Bi-National Learning and the Internet: Grassroots Experiments in Global Education
Facilitator:
Dr. William J. Egnatoff
Institution:
Queen's University at Kingston
Date and time:
Feb 10, 2010 11:00 AM Mountain Time (Canada)
Please note that the date for this CIDER session has been changed to Wednesday, February 10th.
Students at a French immersion high school in Ottawa and a school in Brazil exchange recipes, using a combination of French, English and Portuguese. The Brazilians discover they like poutine! Children in a rural Sierra Leonean village devastated during the civil war and a school in Mississauga collaborate to produce an online art gallery of pictures about what peace means to them. What do these examples and hundreds of thousands like them mean to the participants? What are the benefits and challenges of collaborating across countries and cultures in the design, implementation, and assessment of learning activities? Such activities by their collaborative nature support global education, whether it emphasizes peace, social justice, citizenship, ecology, or any topic or issue of shared interest. Bill Egnatoff will present a conceptual framework for bi-national collaboration of this sort. He will illustrate the framework from relevant literature, through his experience in teaching a course called Global Education Through International Collaboration, and through his peace education design research with colleagues in Canada and Sierra Leone. That work includes experimentation with, and evaluation of, a variety of tools and systems to support collaboration among twinned school communities, pre-service and in-service teachers, teacher educators, and researchers.
The link to this session will be posted closer to the session start time: February 10, 11:00am Mountain Time (Edmonton, Canada)
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Our most recent CIDER session
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Blended Online Learning Design: Shaken not Stirred
Date and time:
Jan 06, 2010 11:00 AM
Given the crucial role played by universities in a knowledge-based society, understanding how and under what conditions online learning (OL) can improve access to graduate studies is of the highest importance to today’s growing global economy. Over the past decade, phenomenal advances have been made in the application of communication and information technologies to support student learning in higher education. Yet, in proportion to overall provision of higher education, the use of technology by faculty for graduate-level, online learning (OL) has been minimal, especially among regular faculty.
In this session, Norm Vaughan and Michael Power present an adapted form of OL, especially designed for traditional universities, with initial data from studies underway in two Canadian universities. Finally, an emerging network of researchers interested in the role of online learning within mainstream higher education is presented.
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Nearly 90 researchers and educators from across Canada attended the inaugural CIDER Session.
Each session is 60 minutes long and runs from 11:00 AM Mountain time (1:00PM Eastern).
Registration is free.
For more information on attending upcoming sessions, email Lynn Anderson at lynnlo@cogeco.ca
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