In the fifth and sixth week we explore the Learning Innovation Network as a tool for designing teaching and learning experiences, developed by METID - Politecnico di Milano. It places at the center of attention the dynamic of interactions among subjects that generate the experience of teaching and learning. The Learning Innovation Network is for the teacher designer a tool for designing learning innovation: through the deconstruction of the learning experience in its key components (subjects, activities, contents, channels, outside world) it stimulates observation and offers ideas for redesigning. In this fifth week, we will focus, in particular, on the use of Networked Learning to plan learning innovation, starting by identifying and representing the subjects of teaching and learning experience and the definition and description of learning activities for active classes. In the sixth week, the focus will be on the designing of contents, of communication channels and strategies to integrate the “outside world” in order to support teaching and learning activities, and monitoring the innovative experience of teaching-learning.

If you actively participate in the activities, at the end of the week you will be able to:

  • evaluate the potential of Networked Learning as a tool to analyze the context of teaching-learning and to activate designing processes for learning innovation;
  • apply the tool of Networked Learning to design learning innovation within an entire course or part of it.
  • apply adequate monitoring strategies to the teaching-learning experience to evaluate its effectiveness in relation to the achievement of the Intended Learning Outcomes.
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