[WikiEducator] Re: Optimizing Knowledge Transfer
Hello Jan, Allison, Maria and everyone else who has joined in the discussion. Thank you for your comments. This is all great feedback. Allison and Maria - is there any documentation of this new role of teachers as 'educational consultants' or 'guidance providers'? At the e-learning conference, we were calling teachers WIki- gardeners. Should we start building the evidence base on what this looks like in practice and develop certain principles based on our varied experiences? Jan - totally right about 'optimizing'. When I first say this, I balked as well. It made me aware how medical education was still stuck in the 'cathedral' mode, with a wise man speaking to the assembled masses. Also agreed that learning through talk, informal learning, is way important in professional development than formal learning. What about with the use of social software - does learning change? Can it lead to better alignment of teaching and learning? Should we start a separate thread on this? Gurmit On Sep 8, 7:44 pm, Jan Visser jvis...@learndev.org wrote: Maybe this is the teacher's role. Rather than imparting knowledge, a teacher works with learners to help them make decisions about how to approach a subject: what content materials to use, how to pace themselves through the material, how to self-evaluate their learning, what groups of learners can do together to support each others' learning, ( Alison Snieckus) There is probably nothing inherently wrong with teaching, even in those cases when teaching means lecturing. What is bad is if it is seen as the sole mode of contributing to other people's learning; when it's not what the learner is looking for and yet it's being forced upon the learner; when it's not passionate, beautiful, informative and emotionally and mentally engaging. Of course, there are some excellent examples of good lecturing available, including for free on the Internet. The mainstream practice is unfortunately often less exciting. The ability to recognize and appreciate the autonomy of the learner and to do all those things Alison suggests, is indeed part of what one must expect of any teacher worth her or his salt. And much more! Incidentally, I don't see it as a matter of Optimizing Knowledge Transfer. This phrase suggests that it's basically a process of getting knowledge (as if it were a thing) from someone's head into some other person's head. The phrase doesn't adequately emphasize how essential dialogue is for true learning, which always involves more than the single learning individual. Learning is never done alone, at least not from the perspective of the true learner. Even when reading a book, or for that matter a WE document, the learner engages in a dialogue with its author(s). Jan --- Jan Visser, Ph.D. President and Sr. Researcher, Learning Development Institute http://www.learndev.org http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Jvisser.ldi --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Award for teaching
Dear WikiFriends Click on the following link to see me receiving an Award for Excellence in Teaching. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur/Botany_Teaching_and_Research_Pages The Award was given by Former President of India, His Excellency Bharata Ratna Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam. on September 7, 2009. Warm wishes Gita - Dr. Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com Associate Professor of Botany Gargi College (University of Delhi) Siri Fort Road, New Delhi 110049 skype:gitamathur Web: http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/Featured_L4C_graduates http://wikieducator.org/India http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26 http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Award for teaching
Wow! A great big congrats Gita! - Randy On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com wrote: Dear WikiFriends Click on the following link to see me receiving an Award for Excellence in Teaching. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur/Botany_Teaching_and_Research_Pages The Award was given by Former President of India, His Excellency Bharata Ratna Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam. on September 7, 2009. Warm wishes Gita - Dr. Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com Associate Professor of Botany Gargi College (University of Delhi) Siri Fort Road, New Delhi 110049 skype:gitamathur Web: http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/Featured_L4C_graduates http://wikieducator.org/India http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26 http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27 -- PS. Here's a link to some info about me: http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Randyfisher Randy Fisher MA, OMD * Senior Consultant, Intersol Group, Canada * Senior Consultant, Organization Business Development, International Centre for Open Education / Open Education Resource (OER) Foundation, New Zealand * Change Management, Learning Performance * Stakeholder Engagement, Virtual Collaboration Communities of Practice * Organization Design Development * Coaching Facilitation * E-Learning + 1 613.899.0475 (EST) wikira...@gmail.com http://www.wikieducator.org - Member, WikiEducator Community Council Skype: wikirandy Open Education is a Sustainable Renewable Resource. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Award for teaching
Thank You Wayne, Randy and Anil for your messages good wishes. Warm regards Gita On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 22:34 +1200, Wayne Mackintosh wrote: BIG Congratulations Gita!!! Wow! We're very privileged to have this calibre of teacher on the WikiEducator team! We celebrate with you on this noteworthy accolade. Well done Gita. Cheers Wayne 2009/9/10 Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com Dear WikiFriends Click on the following link to see me receiving an Award for Excellence in Teaching. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur/Botany_Teaching_and_Research_Pages The Award was given by Former President of India, His Excellency Bharata Ratna Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam. on September 7, 2009. Warm wishes Gita - Dr. Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com Associate Professor of Botany Gargi College (University of Delhi) Siri Fort Road, New Delhi 110049 skype:gitamathur Web: http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/Featured_L4C_graduates http://wikieducator.org/India http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26 http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27 -- Wayne Mackintosh, Ph.D. Director, International Centre for Open Education, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand. Board of Directors, OER Foundation. Founder and Community Council Member, Wikieducator, www.wikieducator.org Mobile +64 21 2436 380 Skype: WGMNZ1 Twitter: OERFoundation, Mackiwg --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Award for teaching
Congratulations, Gita. That is great news. Thank you for sharing. Warm wishes, Nellie Deutsch Sharing is Caring! http://www.nelliemuller.com Doctoral Student Educational Leadership Curriculum and Instruction Get ready for CO10: http://connecting-online.ning.com/ Free online workshops on WikiEducator: http://www.wikieducator.org/Workshops On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com wrote: Dear WikiFriends Click on the following link to see me receiving an Award for Excellence in Teaching. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur/Botany_Teaching_and_Research_Pages The Award was given by Former President of India, His Excellency Bharata Ratna Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam. on September 7, 2009. Warm wishes Gita - Dr. Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com Associate Professor of Botany Gargi College (University of Delhi) Siri Fort Road, New Delhi 110049 skype:gitamathur Web: http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/Featured_L4C_graduates http://wikieducator.org/India http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26 http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Award for teaching
Gita, Congratulations on receiving this wonderful recognition of your life's work! We are lucky to have you as part of the WE community. Alison http://wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckushttp://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com wrote: Dear WikiFriends Click on the following link to see me receiving an Award for Excellence in Teaching. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur/Botany_Teaching_and_Research_Pages The Award was given by Former President of India, His Excellency Bharata Ratna Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam. on September 7, 2009. Warm wishes Gita http://wikieducator.org/Featured_L4C_graduates http://wikieducator.org/India http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26 http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Award for teaching
Well done Gita! Saludos 2009/9/10 Alison Snieckus alison.sniec...@gmail.com Gita, Congratulations on receiving this wonderful recognition of your life's work! We are lucky to have you as part of the WE community. Alison http://wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckushttp://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.comwrote: Dear WikiFriends Click on the following link to see me receiving an Award for Excellence in Teaching. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur/Botany_Teaching_and_Research_Pages The Award was given by Former President of India, His Excellency Bharata Ratna Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam. on September 7, 2009. Warm wishes Gita http://wikieducator.org/Featured_L4C_graduates http://wikieducator.org/India http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26 http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27 -- Gladys Gahona Private Teacher (Math, Physics, Chemistry) Secondary Tertiary grades. Come join me at http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/Online_schedule/eL4C31 http://www.gladysgahona.com http://storytelling-cultures.ning.com Skype:chela5808 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Award for teaching
Dear Gita, Sarita Kumar and Seema Makhija, Kudos to all three of you on being awarded as 'Distinguished Teachers' among Delhi University College teachers on the occasion of Teachers day - *In India 5th September is celebrated as Teachers' day. 5th September is the birthday of a great teacher Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan. When Dr. Radhakrishnan became the president of India in 1962, some of his students and friends approached him and requested him to allow them to celebrate 5th September, his birthday. In reply, Dr, Radhakrishnan said, instead of celebrating my birthday separately, it would be my proud privilege if September 5 is observed as Teachers' day. The request showed Dr.Radhakrishnan's love for the teaching profession. From then onwards, the day has been observed as Teachers' Day in India. ** *Please see* http://hn.wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College *for group pic as well as that of Sarita Kumar. In the group pic can you spot Gita, Sarita and Seema?? :) For the first time ever University of Delhi (traditionally school teachers have been awarded on this day each year) decided to honour undergraduate teachers on the occasion. 90 teachers across 29 colleges (there are 63 colleges in DU - in some colleges nobody made the grade) and 13 subjects were honoured. The awards were based on student perception only - feed back was taken on the undergraduate teachers from First year Post graduate students. I am proud that Acharya Narendra Dev College has three awardees - this is a good number considering that ours is a relatively young college. Of the three Sarita Kumar (User:Saritasanjay), Seema Makhija ( User:Makhija.seema) are Wikieducators (M.S. Rajeswari is the third). Savithri 2009/9/10 Gladys Gahona gladysgah...@gmail.com Well done Gita! Saludos 2009/9/10 Alison Snieckus alison.sniec...@gmail.com Gita, Congratulations on receiving this wonderful recognition of your life's work! We are lucky to have you as part of the WE community. Alison http://wikieducator.org/User:ASnieckushttp://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 6:03 AM, Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.comwrote: Dear WikiFriends Click on the following link to see me receiving an Award for Excellence in Teaching. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur/Botany_Teaching_and_Research_Pages The Award was given by Former President of India, His Excellency Bharata Ratna Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam. on September 7, 2009. Warm wishes Gita http://wikieducator.org/Featured_L4C_graduates http://wikieducator.org/India http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26 http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27 -- Gladys Gahona Private Teacher (Math, Physics, Chemistry) Secondary Tertiary grades. Come join me at http://www.wikieducator.org/Learning4Content/Workshops/Online_schedule/eL4C31 http://www.gladysgahona.com http://storytelling-cultures.ning.com Skype:chela5808 -- डॉक्टर सावित्री सिंह प्रधानाचार्य आचार्य नरेन्द्र देव कॉलेज ( दिल्ली विश्वविद्यालय ) गोविन्दपुरी, कालकाजी नयी दिल्ली 110019 Dr. Savithri Singh Principal Acharya Narendra Dev College (University of Delhi) Govindpuri, Kalkaji New Delhi 110 019 Tel: 2629 4542, 2629 3224, 2641 2547 Fax: (011) 2629 4540 Res: 2584 8151 2584 97862584 3496 http://andcollege.du.ac.in http://wikieducator.org/Acharya_Narendra_Dev_College http://wikieducator.org/User:Savi.odl http://wikieducator.org/India http://wikieducator.org/India/wikieducator_launch http://www.slideshare.net/singh.savithri --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Award for teaching
Congratulations, Gita. Hard work always pays off. Warm wishes, Patricia -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gita Mathur Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 3:03 AM To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Award for teaching Dear WikiFriends Click on the following link to see me receiving an Award for Excellence in Teaching. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur/Botany_Teaching_and_Researc h_Pages The Award was given by Former President of India, His Excellency Bharata Ratna Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam. on September 7, 2009. Warm wishes Gita - Dr. Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com Associate Professor of Botany Gargi College (University of Delhi) Siri Fort Road, New Delhi 110049 skype:gitamathur Web: http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/Featured_L4C_graduates http://wikieducator.org/India http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26 http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Award for teaching
Wow Congratulations Gita. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.orgwrote: Congratulations, Gita. Hard work always pays off. Warm wishes, Patricia -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gita Mathur Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 3:03 AM To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Award for teaching Dear WikiFriends Click on the following link to see me receiving an Award for Excellence in Teaching. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur/Botany_Teaching_and_Researc h_Pages The Award was given by Former President of India, His Excellency Bharata Ratna Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam. on September 7, 2009. Warm wishes Gita - Dr. Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com Associate Professor of Botany Gargi College (University of Delhi) Siri Fort Road, New Delhi 110049 skype:gitamathur Web: http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/Featured_L4C_graduates http://wikieducator.org/India http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26 http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27 -- Rima Aleryani nada200...@gmail.com skype(nada2002ye) http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Rima --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
[WikiEducator] Re: Award for teaching
Hi Patricia, Nellie, Gladys, Alison, Savithri Rima Thank You dear friends for your kind words and messages. It is a pleasure to have such nice friends who care hence it feels good to share :-) Warm regards Gita On Sep 11, 12:24 am, Rima nada200...@gmail.com wrote: Wow Congratulations Gita. On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:19 PM, Patricia Schlicht pschli...@col.orgwrote: Congratulations, Gita. Hard work always pays off. Warm wishes, Patricia -Original Message- From: wikieducator@googlegroups.com [mailto:wikieduca...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gita Mathur Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 3:03 AM To: wikieducator@googlegroups.com Subject: [WikiEducator] Award for teaching Dear WikiFriends Click on the following link to see me receiving an Award for Excellence in Teaching. http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur/Botany_Teaching_and_Researc h_Pages The Award was given by Former President of India, His Excellency Bharata Ratna Dr.A.P.J Abdul Kalam. on September 7, 2009. Warm wishes Gita - Dr. Gita Mathur gita.mat...@gmail.com Associate Professor of Botany Gargi College (University of Delhi) Siri Fort Road, New Delhi 110049 skype:gitamathur Web: http://wikieducator.org/User:Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/Featured_L4C_graduates http://wikieducator.org/India http://www.slideshare.net/Gita_Mathur http://wikieducator.org/EL4C26 http://wikieducator.org/EL4C27 -- Rima Aleryani nada200...@gmail.com skype(nada2002ye)http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Rima --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups WikiEducator group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to wikieducator@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to wikieducator-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
