This presentation was created as part of a team project for Designing a New Learning Environment, MOOC offered by Stanford University, Fall 2012. Team members who contributed to this presentation are Kimberly Hayworth, Cathleen Galas, Laura Gibbs, Susan Lieberman, Donna Murdoch.

1. COHESIVE OPEN
EDUCATIONAL
LEARNING SYSTEM
Learning with Individualized Information NOW!

2. Informative Google Site
All information about COELS
is presented in a
comprehensive manner on
the COELS Google Site

5. COELS
Cohesive Open Educational Learning
System (COELS) is a set of strategies,
resources and tools for educators,
learners and researchers to
collaborate and share their
experiences and best practices for
using emerging technologies to
enhance teaching and learning
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6. COELS is an approach to …
• Thinking about possibilities for
teaching, learning and research in
terms of a wide-angle view that
includes current technologies and
those just over the horizon
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7. COELS provides …
Conceptual umbrella for
mental framework that
supports world view of
how philosophies,
technologies, resources
and knowledge can be
shared in an open
learning ecosystem at
global scale
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8. COELS Team & Community …
• Help educators, learners and
researchers to see the big
picture of how pedagogies,
learning goals, research
discoveries and technologies
can connect and work together
in a holistic system
• Facilitate use of COELS
components & aspects
• Help providers and other
partners see the potential and
benefits of adopting COELS
approach
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9. COELS supports learners …
• To receive & generate information
• Just-in-time, accurate, relevant
• Automatically delivered
• Via any mobile device
• Leading to learning, certification,
mentoring and internships
• Open: free, shared & visible
• Localized for culture & language
• Developed & applied with
ecosystemic sensitivity in a
sustainable manner
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10. History of COELS
Video available at https://sites.google.com/site/dnlecoels/history-
of-coels

12. COELS: in a nutshell
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13. Mindmap
Mindmap showing aspects of COELS
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14. How is COELS original?
• COELS builds on existing
technologies and learning theories
to develop comprehensive
sustainable
learning/teaching/researching
system for diverse people living
throughout the world
• No other existing system is as all-
inclusive and far-reaching
• Localization, which is a distinct
feature of COELS on the horizon, is
not currently functional in any
ubiquitous system
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15. System function and features
• COELS will be delivered to
computers & mobile devices
using existing internet
connections
• Information will be delivered by
several providers
• Google (sites, blogger, docs,
images, +, YouTube)
• Open Learning Registry, LRMI
• Hangouts on air (e.g. TED talks)
• eTextbooks, interactive free apps
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16. What parts already exist?
• Analytics generated in
MOOCs track learners over
time
• Individualized scaffolding and
support, both online and in-
person learning
• Networking opportunities and
individualized interactions,
• Key artifacts published in
ePortfolios by learners &
teachers
• Access to quality open source
materials
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17. Example of Analytics in
Action:Khan Academy
• Khan Academy uses analytics to
individualize learning
• Instant stats
• Knowledge maps
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18. Open Source Proposed Key Partners
• Open University/Social • Shared Learning
Learn Collaborative
• Open Learning Initiative • Learning Resources
• NSDL STEM Exchange Metadata Initiative
Learning Registry (LRMI)
• EDUCAUSE Learning
Initiative (ELI) • Learning Registry
• Next Generation Learning • Support for API/hooks
Challenges in/out of proprietary
systems like Blackboard.
• Society for Learning
Analytics (SoLAR)
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19. What parts are future vision?
• Ideally, the system will be
reinforced through localization of
the information being received
• Localization teams will work with
local instructional technologists
and training staff to use
technology to tailor content and
language for local cultures
• Localization is a key component
in stabilizing the system and in
bringing it into an eco-systemic
balance
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21. Train Farmers in Tanzania
• Local agricultural college in
Tanzania wants to educate local
farmers to increase crop
production
• Trainers use COELS to
• Engage in needs assessment
• Identify viable workshop models
• Obtain “open” workshop materials
• Communicate with worldwide experts
• Collaborate with other Tanzanian
trainers
• Publish their training program for
others to use & improve
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22. Global Business Training
• College students in Toronto
Canada are studying
Marketing for Global Business
program
• Students use COELS to
• Create & follow blogs to note
trends
• Examine website paradata to
determine buying patterns
• Participate in blended learning
combining face-to-face classes
with online components
• Use ePortfolios to display final
projects
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23. Student enrolled in a MOOC
• Nepalese Student enrols in MOOC
in Fantasy & Science Fiction ...
with 30,000 other students!
• Student uses COELS to
• Learn how to create a group blog with
four other students, each from a
different country, learning how to learn
together
• Build Google site highlighting lessons
learned
• Connect with other independent
learners via COELS community
• Write & distribute "Guide to Surviving
MOOC Fantasy -SciFi" for future
students
COELS2012 Image from http://highlighter.com/2012/07/how-we-learned-to-stand-out-in-a-class-of-
100000-people/

24. Self-Publishing Teacher
• Teacher has developed course
materials for "American
Revolutionary Literature" and
wants to make them available
freely online
• Teacher uses COELS to
• Discover the Learning Registry
and LRMI
• Connect with other self- Image provided by Laura Gibbs
publishing educators via the
COELS community who help
select a publishing platform
• Document learning process via a
Teaching ePortfolio
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25. Student of Biblical Greek
• Retired bus driver in Argentina
has decided to learn Biblical
Greek
• Non-traditional student uses
COELS to
• Connect via COELS community with
the Ancient Greek Language
community at Google +
• Join a group blog with fellow
students of Biblical Greek
• Use Google Hangout for online
study sessions
• Create and share games that
encourage learning
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26. UK Family Traveling to Italy
• Family wants to add
educational dimension to
upcoming trip to Italy
• Family uses COELS to
• Connect via COELS community
where they learn about
LiveMocha for learning Italian
• Create a travel blog to share
travel experiences Image provided by Laura Gibbs
• Work with Learning Registry to
build a Google site about their trip
keyed to Common Core standards
for their children's grade levels
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27. Literacy for Children in Vietnam
• Seeds of Empowerment: 1001 Stories
• Organization currently uses COELS
approach re individualized learning, content
delivery & publishing to
• Promote literacy through storytelling
• Set up local workshops to teach
children to use PocketSchool mobile
learning device
• Collect stories and publishes some
internationally for mobile learning
applications at stores (e.g., Apple app
store or Amazon kindle ebook store)
• COELS future vision would also include
• Localizing language and culture for
other communities
• Automatic delivery of new
individualized content
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29. How to realize COELS?
Key Activities
• Build community
• Facilitate curation of online
resources
• Raise awareness of emerging
technologies, learning
resources and innovative
pedagogies
• Work with partners to
encourage development of
key COELS aspects (e.g.
localization)
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30. More Key Activities
• Develop best practices
• Host/coordinate
• Google+ Community
• Online seminars
• Hangouts (#COELSHangout)
• Showcase exemplary
teaching, learning and
research
• Publish cases & research
• Present at conferences
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31. Collaboration with the community
COELS team will raise awareness of how
current and emerging technologies by
• Situating learning in meaningful
contexts
• Supporting creation & sharing of
learning resources
• Facilitate content curation
• Engage in ongoing social media
conversations
• Identify partners to house
repositories for best practices
• Host regularly scheduled events
such as webinars and hangouts
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32. System Stability
• Unbundling so that partners may receive
benefits for certain inputs while providing free
services to others
• Example: coursera
• Provides free MOOCs
• Generates income through
• Licensing platforms
• Certifications
• Recruitment
• Industry will contribute to setting learning
objectives based on needed skill sets
• Participants get certification, mentoring,
internships and ability to work as soon as
they finish a learning sequence
• Localization will encourage stabilization
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33. Design Thinking
The COELS team supports
a design thinking approach
to innovation through
• Discovery
• Interpretation
• Ideation
• Experimentation
• Evolution
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34. COELS vision
... supports a living and
viable learning system that
will continue to evolve and
be available to people
throughout the world by
connecting high quality,
accessible and localized
resources, best practices
and technology to create a
sustainable learning model
for the future!

35. COELS Contact Information
• Ongoing discussion and
development of COELS
• COELS Google+ page
• COELS Google+ Community
• COELS Google site
• Information and tools
• Philosophies & practices
• ePortfolios
• Google toolbox (sites, blogger,
docs, images, videos)
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36. COELS/DNLE
This presentation represents work
completed in the Designing a new Learning
Environment (DNLE) course offered by Dr.
Paul Kim of Stanford University
Thank you for visiting our team project
Team members
Kimberly Hayworth
Cathleen Galas
Laura Gibbs
Susan Lieberman
Donna Murdoch

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