Liberating Structures for Online Learning - OZ E-Live Series

Infecting (Online) Learning with Liberating Structures

WITH Australia e-learning series, February 21-22, 2014Nancy White, Keith McCandless and friends….http://www.liberatingstructures.com

1. 1. BE together BE together 2. 2. Engage WITH Engage WITH each other to each other to learn/create/make meaning of learn/create/make meaning of

knowledgeknowledge3. 3. Unleash everyoneUnleash everyone

Expand our Expand our repertoirerepertoire to … to …

The Design Storyboard of our time together today…

Design Storyboard

Spectrogram &1-2-4-All

Agreement/Uncertainty Matrix

TRIZ

What, So What, Now What?

Harvest & unleash!

I’m not even sure I know what this means

YES, I’m a NINJA!

Where are we starting together?I am a ninja at engaging learners online….

(Preparation for our 1-2-all)

Let’s Experiment with 1-2-All

1.First, think quietly on your own about the question

“How do you engage learners online?”

2.Next we are going to break up into pairs. Look at the Participant list in the upper left hand corner of your screen. I will pair you off two by two.

3.Now, lets go to the next slide…

Adey PM’s

Althea

1-2-4-All (on line variation)

Let’s Experiment with 1-2-All

1.First, think quietly on your own about the question “How do you engage learners online?”

2.Next we are going to break up into pairs. Look at the Participant list in the upper left hand corner of your screen. I will pair you off two by two.

3.Now, the first person in the pair will private message (PM) the second person. This is now a two person chat. Hover your mouse over the person you want to private message chat with and click on “Start Private Chat.” Voila!

4.When you hear us call you back, return to the full group chat.

Adey PM’s

Althea

Harvest from Paired Conversation: How do we engage learners online?

1-2-4-All in motion. Multiple short cycles are more productive than one longer session.

Let’s debrief together….

Liberating Structures…including and unleashing everyonehttp://www.liberatingstructures.comKeith and Henri…

Liberating Structures Introducing tiny shifts in how we meet, plan,

decide and relate to one another

• Simple: requires only a few minutes to introduce

• Expert-less: beginners can succeed after a first experience

• Results-focused: likely to generate better-than-expected, innovative results

• Rapid cycling: fast iterative rounds are very productive

• Inclusive: together, everyone is invited to shape next steps

• Multi-scale: works for everyday solutions, big projects, strategy, and transforming movements

• Seriously fun: boosts joy, freedom & responsibility

• Self-spreading: easy to copy without formal training

McCandless and Lipmanowicz McCandless and Lipmanowicz

Liberating with Micro

Structures

Open Discussion

Distributed control

Centralized control

Brainstorm

Presentation

Status Report

Managed Discussion

Control

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Number of People Included in Shaping Next Steps One Person Everybody

Complicated

Certainty / Predictability

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Chaotic

Complex

Agreement-Certainty MatrixSort challenges into Simple, Complicated, Complex & Chaotic Domains

Certainty / Predictability

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Chaotic

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TRIZ

http://www.liberatingstructures.com/6-making-space-with-triz/

I don’t think we’ll have time to do this one, but I think it has great relevance in learning/teaching contexts….

Let’s TRIZ Together:

"If our approach to teaching and teaching and learning online learning online was totally obliterated last night, what parts would you re-establish to increase learner engagement?"

Type your answer in the chat …

Second round if we had time…

"If our approach to teaching and teaching and learning online learning online was totally obliterated last night…

What new functions or attributes would you add? Type your answer in the chat …

TRIZ Harvest SlideWhat would we stop? Invent? Keep doing?

The longer form of TRIZ…

http://www.liberatingstructures.com/6-making-space-with-triz/

25/10 Crowd Sourcing“If you were 10 times bolder, what big idea

would you recommend? What first step would you take to get started?”

http://www.liberatingstructures.com/12-2510-crowd-sourcing/

Noticing and using the influence, Noticing and using the influence, discretion and power individuals discretion and power individuals have right now.have right now.

– – Keith McCandlessKeith McCandless

The 15% solutionThe 15% solution

22http://www.liberatingstructures.com/7-15-solutions/

Let’s harvest…

What, so what, now what?

http://www.liberatingstructures.com/9-what-so-what-now-what-w/

What, So What….

Now What….

With a deep bow of appreciation to Keith McCandless and Henri Lipmanowicz …

Resources:•http://www.liberatingstructures.com•The video •http://www.liberatingstructures.com/fs4•A Liberated Professor Speaks: http://www.liberatingstructures.com/storage/articles/Liberated%20Professor%20Speaks.pdf•UnScripted: Liberating Structures by Arvind Singhal https://vimeo.com/51546509 10’20” •Liberating Structures: Inviting and Unleashing All: Lipmanowicz in Convo with Singhal https://vimeo.com/50352840 8’ 30” •Liberating Classroom: Lipmanowicz in Convo with Singhal https://vimeo.com/50347352 8’ 20

keith@liberatingstructures.com http://www.liberatingstructures.com@NancyWhitenancyw@fullcirc.comhttp://www.fullcirc.com

Thank You!