PEER-LEARNING AND BEYOND Krzysztof Gurba Patras , 2014

108/01/2014 Final Conference

PEER-LEARNING AND BEYOND

Krzysztof Gurba

Patras, 2014

Final Conference

Two categories of users

• Support of their existing vocational training

• Procedural knowledge and skills extending their competence in the specific area of contact with the problems of immigrants

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Cultural mediators by profession

Non-professional cultural mediators, for example: social workers, counselors, educators, health assistants, police officers and border guards

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The essence of the profession of cultural mediator, according to the participants of research in Sonetor Project, is rather a continuous accompaniment given to an immigrant in a new and different reality and being a guide to the complexities of immigrant life in the host country, explaining these complexities and differences, and practically solving them.

Social skills of cultural mediator:Show understandingBe patientBe open to the otherness Like what you do

Cultural mediation – profession or mission


Five core competencies are the following:

Anthropological-sociological knowledgeCommunicative and linguistic competencePatienceOpenness and tolerancePragmatic skills

Set of competencies


Guided and unguided (inspected or not by a moderator)Story-basedAssigned to the expected learning outcomes (EQF)Sequence of individual steps (decision points)Massive background links and contexts (further readings, documentation, data bases, case studies)

Learning scenarios – main features (1)


Mashed-up with other scenarios and episodesMashed-up with social networksMultimedial (videos, infographics, photos, animations)Self and peer tested and assessed Open for online and offline discussionFree of chargeBased on real life experience of users

Learning scenarios – main features (2)


Idea of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0Web 2.0 - User-generated contentWeb 3.0 - Content crowdsourcing

Wisdom of the crowd, pro-am learning

Feedback effect - induced activity and creativity of scholars and other professionals

Sonetor platform – cognitive value


MOOCs (global classrooms)CourseraedXUdacityUdemy

OERsOpen BadgesChunking of contentTinkering

…and beyond


MOOC = Massively Open Online CourseFree classes (usually)Huge following (avarage 50 000 students)Includes all of the components needed to learn away from the traditional classroom (lectures, activities, quizzes, projects)Broad communityModerated and mastered by learners and coachesCertificates (usually paid but affordable)

MOOCs


Courses offered by MOOC start-ups:Coursera (consortium, Stanford, Princeton, etc.)edX (consortium, Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, certificates)Udacity (company, mostly computer science, certificates and resume to partners incl. Google, Facebook, Bank of America, etc.)Udemy (company, open, big names)

MOOCs offer


OERs (Open Educational Resources)Open source eductional contentOpen badges (Khan Academy, Mozilla’s Open Badges)Rewarding individuals for knowledge and skills acquired outside traditional classroomsChunking of contentModular structure of educational contentTinkeringLearning by doing, exploring, building. Leveraging students interest by what they make with their hands

Global classroom – new phenomena


Thank you for your attention!

Krzysztof GurbaVice-director

Institute of Journalism and Social CommunicationPontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow

[email protected]

PEER-LEARNING AND BEYOND Krzysztof Gurba Patras , 2014

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