User talk:Inawe/ols

"OLS" stands for Online Learning Skills.

Although the course is fully credited by the mpi (see under "technical stuff"), it remains open source/open door and is guided by constructivist pedagogical principles. As you've seen, the course is a subpage to my user space "User_talk:Inawe". As long as it does not show the maturity to be published elsewhere, it's a good place to be. We feel honored to be hosted by the unique learning platform Wikipedia.

In other words, this is a draft of an online course that intends to give you all the info and skills to work and research most effectively on the Internet. No matter which department, sciences our humanities, communication in a group (we call that 'round table') functions along certain rules that need to be practised before excellence can be achieved.

As many higher education reports show, Wikipedia is probably the most conducive learning and research environment for our experiment.

Each learning unit starts out as a pool for topic related stories (C). These stories are submitted by course participants. The published material is peer-to-peer discussed within the unit. A story could possibly be the prototype for a later article in Wikipedia.

The official Wikipedia Android app (2.3.150-beta) is a great tool to reach the set goals. We prefer Android because most of our participants work exclusively on smartphones.

The course has 15 units.
Each unit is divided into

• (A) Goal
  
• (B) Intro
  
• (C) Stories
  
• (D) Sources

Inawe 8/4/16

round table

(A) Goal
Awareness of and training of effective communication in person and online.

(B) Intro
Communication is a highly complex process. Most of us communicate intuitively and usually copy the communication patterns of our parents, early educators, and classmates. Most of our communication style can be traced back to our childhood environment. Without being aware of it, we not only inherit certain communication skills, but also weaknesses and downsides.
In this unit we want to research our typical communication habits and try then to change them into effective tools for basic online "round tables". Inawe 8/4/16

It could be of great benefit in communication to apply the Rogerian rhetorical approach... "In 1970, Richard Young, Alton L. Becker, and Kenneth Pike published Rhetoric: Discovery and Change, a widely influential college writing textbook that used a Rogerian approach to communication to revise the traditional Aristotelian framework for rhetoric. The Rogerian method of argument involves each side restating the other's position to the satisfaction of the other. In a paper, it can be expressed by carefully acknowledging and understanding the opposition, rather than dismissing them."[Citation WP]
Inawe 11:12, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

(C) Stories
See "methodological stuff".

(D) Sources
Communication
Intro Communication
Communication Skills
Effective Communication
J Smith: Communication
Soft Skills Communication
Carl Rogers
History of Communication

methodological stuff

Each participant is expected to

• study the given material (hyperlinks)(D)
• add new relevant hyperlinks (D)
• add stories that have substantial informative value for the given topic (C)

Stories can be text, documentary, photography, video.

Storytelling as medium to teach:

• Storytelling Instructional
• Marsha Rossiter: Narrative and Stories in Adult Teaching and Learning
• MARIE L. SHEDLOCK: THE ART OF THE STORY-TELLER
• On-line story-telling books at penn.edu

Inawe 05:32, 5 August 2016 (UTC)

technical stuff

Every participant will sign his/her contributions with a unique name that links to his/her own user page.

Grades, compliments and badges of honor are published on the participant's user page.
Inawe 8/4/16

Although this course is open source, the MIDDLE-EAST PEDAGOGICAL INSTITUTE (mpi Larnaca, Cyprus) can be held accountable for academic reliability of the course content.
Inawe 8/3/16

We strongly encourage to work with the official Wikipedia Android app (Beta).
Inawe 8/4/16

Turquoise water with a bit of sunlight -- Why this picture here? As seemingly arbitrary light on water reflects and no second is like another, so is human communication, whether digitized or in person.

Inawe 8/4/16