Connecting Research to practice Keynote – Werklund School of Education

https://drive.google.com/open?id=13fvaipFsQL-sIfw6LIrM88gh_8zoW1Sr

Recognizing the Importance of Personal Professional Learning Pathways Within Networked Learning Ecosystems: Being a Connected and Open Learner – Dr. Verena Roberts

About this talk: Learning takes place through multiple learning pathways and in formal and informal contexts. Each learning pathway offers different experiences that shape our learner identity. These learning pathways begin the moment we are born and continue beyond formal education experiences. Some learning pathways are easier and others more challenging.  As a professional educator, it is your responsibility to choose the direction of your personal professional learning. While some opportunities will be offered through your organization or district, there are a plethora of informal, connected, and open learning opportunities that could take you on previously inconceivable learning pathways that challenge your skills and competencies. In this keynote conversation, Verena shares her personal learning experiences and connects those experiences to her recent doctoral research in open educational practices (OEP). She describes how being a part of a networked learning ecosystem, continues to be the most essential part of her professional learning pathway.

In conversation with: Dr. Jaime Beck

Keywords: connected lifelong learning; digital networks & communities; professional learning networks

About this speaker: Dr. Verena Roberts (@verenanz) is a passionate online and blended K-12 educator and instructional designer consultant. She recently completed her EdD in Learning Sciences with a focus on K-12 Open Educational Practices (OEP) with the Werklund School of Education. Her graduate fellowships included the 2018-2019 OER Research fellowship and the 2018 Global Open Graduate Network fellowship (#GO-GN). Verena’s awards include  the 2013 iNACOL Innovative Online and Blended Learning Practice Award and the 2019 CNIE K-12 Excellence and Innovation in the Integration of Technology. In 2019, she presented at the UNESCO Open Education for a Better World conference about her doctoral research in Slovenia.

Links from Keynote:

hannon Poulsen – “Teach ESL Online? Who Me?”

Web Literacy Framework:

https://learning.mozilla.org/en-US/web-literacy/

http://www.badgealliance.org/digital-web-literacies/

Peeragogy Handbook: https://peeragogy.github.io/

Dr Roberts’ Dissertation on Open Educational Practices: 

https://prism.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/110926

Information about the #EdTechEthics Twitter Chat : Wednesday, February 5, 2020  from 6:30-7:30 pm MST https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lXNZp7xEpYzW3GYRRXVNbnWqe8-riBb5I8N522a_xHo/edit