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Open Social Networked Digital Personalized Course documents such as the syllabus, schedule, and activity details are available on the web

Learning activities require students to engage with each other’s learning products (e.g. commenting)

Learning activities encourage students to engage in interdisciplinary (across academic fields) connections

Learning activities are making-oriented

Students retain access to all learning products (individual and group) beyond the duration of the course.

The tools and readings required to participate in the course are available on the open web.

Learning activities require students to engage in synchronous/partially synchronous discussion (e.g. Twitter, Discussion Forums, Video conferencing)

Learning activities encourage students to engage in inter-contextual (across home, peer, community, academic contexts) connections

Learning activities require students to build digital fluency

Students are able to adapt the learning activities to suit their own learning goals or interests

Course platform is structured to allow open participants to engage in learning activities and community.

Learning activities include a largely cooperative project

Learning activities encourage students to create sustainable social capital within the academic community (e.g. faculty and other students)

Learning activities require students to community with multimodal expression or artfulness

Students engage in meaningful self-assessment. This may require some instructor scaffolding.

Finished products are available for public consumption and feedback on the open web. Students are encouraged to publish with a creative commons license.

Learning activities require students to engage in a largely collaborative project

Learning activities encourage students to create sustainable social capital beyond the academic community (e.g. community members)