By Cathy Davidson. Useful Links:
Course Description
Futures Initiative Group on Academic Commons
Futures Initiative Group on HASTAC
Collaboratively Written Syllabus (bibliography, topics, and ideas constructed using Think-Pair-Share exercises at four events). More...

By Cathy Davidson. As we begin to assemble the documents, materials, models, and course materials for "Mapping the Futures of Higher Education,"  the first course offered by the Futures Initiative, I will keep posting some of our central documents.  We will be hosting several livestreamed open sessions devoted to the methods, theories, ideas, models, and practices of this course.  Yesterday I gave a "baker's dozen" of central ideas behind peer-led, interactife, connected learning, "What Is Learning?". More...

By Cathy Davidson. Here are a baker's dozen of the main principles of connected learning. As you will see, they form an “ecosystem,” where each component influences and changes the others. These apply in any field (although differently in each field). These principles draw from constructivist, engaged “public educators” (Stuart Hall’s term)  going back as far as Lev Vygotsky and John Dewey and including Howard Gardner, Franz Fanon, Jacques Rancière, and digital pedagogy theorists including Yochai Benkler, Howard Rhinegold,  Mizuko Ito, and many others. More...