PEER-LEARNING AND BEYOND
Krzysztof Gurba
Patras, 2014
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Two categories of users
Cultural mediators by
profession
• Support of their existing
vocational training
• Procedural knowledge
Non-professional cultural
and skills extending
mediators, for example:
their competence in the
social workers, counselors,
specific area of contact
educators, health assistants,
with the problems of
police officers and border
immigrants
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Cultural mediation –
profession or mission
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 understanding
Be patient
Be open to the otherness
Like what you do
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Set of competencies
Five core competencies are the
following:
Anthropological-sociological knowledge
Communicative and linguistic competence
Patience
Openness and tolerance
Pragmatic skills
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Learning scenarios –
main features (1)
Guided and unguided (inspected or not by a
moderator)
Story-based
Assigned to the expected learning
outcomes (EQF)
Sequence of individual steps (decision
points)
Massive background links and contexts
(further readings, documentation, data
bases, case studies)
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Learning scenarios –
main features (2)
Mashed-up with other scenarios and
episodes
Mashed-up with social networks
Multimedial (videos, infographics, photos,
animations)
Self and peer tested and assessed
Open for online and offline discussion
Free of charge
Based on real life experience of users
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Sonetor platform –
cognitive value
 Idea of Web 2.0 and Web 3.0
Web 2.0 - User-generated content
Web 3.0 - Content crowdsourcing
 Wisdom of the crowd, pro-am learning
 Feedback effect - induced activity and
creativity of scholars and other
professionals
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…and beyond
MOOCs (global classrooms)
Coursera
edX
Udacity
Udemy
OERs
Open Badges
Chunking of content
Tinkering
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MOOCs
MOOC = Massively Open Online Course
Free 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 community
Moderated and mastered by learners and
coaches
Certificates (usually paid but affordable)
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MOOCs offer
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)
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Global classroom – new
phenomena
OERs (Open Educational Resources)
Open source eductional content
Open badges (Khan Academy, Mozilla’s Open
Badges)
Rewarding individuals for knowledge and skills acquired
outside traditional classrooms
Chunking of content
Modular structure of educational content
Tinkering
Learning by doing, exploring, building. Leveraging students
interest by what they make with their hands
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Thank you for your attention!
Krzysztof Gurba
Vice-director
Institute of Journalism and Social Communication
Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow
[email protected]
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