#FOS201 – Flexible, open and social learning

5-14 June 2020

FIND OUT MORE: @fos4l: #FOS201 https://foslearning.wordpress.com/

Topics:

Digital literacies
Flexible pedagogies
Supporting learning
Communities and collaboration
Open education (including linking to #creativeHEjam)

In #FOS201 you will:

be supported by distributed volunteer facilitators across 10 NW institutions
have the opportunity to engage in inquiry-based activities
select what you would like to do, how, when (and with whom)
and if you wish, be part of a community to learn with and from each other…
and of course, experiment with and experience new approaches and consider some of these for your own practice.

You can do as much or as little as you wish in any order. You may even just focus on one of the above for the main part of the course. Whatever is useful for you! We look forward to learning together

Sean, Paul, Peter, Alex, Tünde, Emma, Hassan, Dawn, Craig, Paul, Neil and Chrissi (The #FOS201 team)

Creativity in Quarantine: Announcing the 2020 #creativeHEjam

12-19 June 2020

FIND OUT MORE: https://creativehecommunity.wordpress.com/ #creativeHE #creativeHEjam

The time for our second #creativeHEjam is approaching and how different it is this year! We would like to get together remotely and celebrate resourcefulness and creativity in supporting students’ learning in times of adversity.

Outline Programme

12 June 2020, 12:00-14:00 Join us live online for a practice sharing marketplace Book your place on the live session h e re
15-18 June 2020 Join in asynchronously (whenever suits you) with our daily discussion and short creative challenge
19 June 2020, 12:00-14:00 Join us live online to reflect on your #creativeHEjam experience and discuss the future of a new normal in facilitating learning

You can join us for one element of the jam or jump in and experience the whole festival, the choice is yours!

Anna, Emma, Chrissi, Neil, Sandra, Norman, Alex, Rachelle and Hannah (The #creativeHEjam team)

Call for Contributions – #creativeHEjam 2020

We would love for you to share your lockdown story via the marketplace on 12 June. 15-minute slots will be allocated to contributors and it is completely up to you how you would like to use that time! Perhaps you would like to talk through your experience via an object or presentation. You could share what has gone well for you during lockdown, or what has gone wrong! Maybe you would like to lead a debate or demonstrate an activity or perhaps you have an idea that you would value feedback on. This is your space to share practice and learn from the collective #creativeHE community Submit your contribution idea here before 31 May

We have some exciting news. FOS, is back! The open cross-institutional course for professionals in Higher Education and Further Education who teach or support learning and students who are interested in learning with others from around the world about flexible, open and social learning together.

Visit the course site at https://foslearning.wordpress.com/

The areas we would like to explore together are:

Digital literacies
Flexible pedagogies
Supporting learning
Communities and collaboration
Open education

The first three days will have a focus on getting to know each other and find out a little bit more about the course. And we are preparing a surprise for our very first day, the 5th. Watch this space. Then on Monday – Friday we will focus on the above areas of interest. The following weekend will be an opportunity to consolidate what we have learnt and see what we would like to take forward and how.

In #FOS201 you will

be supported by distributed volunteer facilitators
have the opportunity to engage in inquiry-based activities
select what you would like to do, how, when (and with whom)
and if you wish, be part of a community to learn with and from each other…
and of course, experiment with and experience new approaches and consider some of these for your own practice.

You can do as much or as little as you wish in any order. You may even just focus on one of the above for the main part of the course. Whatever is useful for you.

This brand new iteration will be offered over 10 days. We start on Friday the 5th of June and will finish the facilitated version on Sunday the 14th of June. Learning, of course, can continue and often does.

This iteration is an open cross-institutional collaboration with volunteer facilitators from institutions across the North West of England. Together, we will support you and each other in debating and experimenting with alternative approaches to learning especially now. We hope this will help us all to re- and un-think our practices to solve the issues we currently face in flexible, creative and collaborative ways.

Collaboration and cooperation are more important than ever. We hope you will embrace this development opportunity and join us. Everybody is welcome. Staff teaching or supporting learning at a higher education institution and students in the NW, anywhere else in the UK or further afield. Colleagues and students from the wider education sector may also find this useful. You are all welcome. The more diverse our learning community becomes the better!

FOS is an openly licensed course developed through recycling and building on existing OER course and particularly FDOL developed by Chrissi Nerantzi and Lars Uhlin (see full attribution on the right-hand side). We are using an inquiry-based approach that can work for individual and collaborative learning, online and offline.

If you work at MMU, you will also be able to use your FOS work towards up to 30 FLEX credits at Postgraduate Level of the PgCert in LTHE or HE but also the MA in HE. Get in touch if you would like to find out more regarding this. Other institutions may offer similar opportunities through their internal staff development programmes.

The #FOS201 community space where our discussions will take place will be announced closer to the beginning of the course.

We hope you will join us in this exciting 10-day adventure, to share experiences, ideas, participate in (some of) the activities and learn with and from each other. You will have the opportunity to meet like- and other-minded individuals who all care about learning and teaching and will bring diverse ideas to our conversations. Be open to new possibilities, learning explorations and experimentations. Challenge, be challenged and have fun too!

We will share regular course updates on Twitter using @fos4l and the course hashtag #FOS201.

We are really looking forward to learning together and will be back again nearer the start of the course with more information.

Please share this open invitation with anybody you feel may be interested, staff, students and the wider public.

Sean, Paul, Peter, Alex, Tünde, Emma, Hassan, Dawn, Craig, Paul, Neil and Chrissi

The #FOS201 team

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