An account of the experience developed with the EduCamp was included in a book entitled "El Proyecto Facebook", published by Fundación Telefónica (Argentina).
During 2010, new workshops were made at higher education institutions. I led a couple of them, one at Universidad de la Sabana:
And another one at Gimnasio La Montaña, which was the first I did with secondary school students. It was an interesting test, that made necessary adjustments to the methodology.
In addition to the test I did in Saltillo (2009), I got to try out new settings, new audiences and new countries. Short workshops were offered to higher education teachers in Peru (see pictures) and to primary school teachers and staff of Plan Ceibal (Uruguay):
These workshops opened the doors to a new chapter for this experience!
Building on the experience of my first Open Online Course (OOC) and in collaboration with new universities, we offered new OOC:
- GRYC (EAFIT University, Colombia): an exploration of the meaning and differences between groups, communities and networks. It asked participants to recognize and propose interventions in their own groups, communities and networks. Planned for 2009, but offered in 2010, with participants from Colombia, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Uruguay.
- A new cohort of e-Learning (Universidad de la Sabana, Colombia), with participants from Colombia, Mexico, and Spain.
- DocTIC (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Colombia): an exploration of several components of the practice of teaching in online environments. The course was used as a live case study demonstrating alternatives to conventional learning management systems. Included participants from Colombia, Mexico, United States, Venezuela, Brazil, Spain and Bolivia.
These courses allowed me to improve the technological infrastructure and to keep exploring visualization to fing new patterns of interaction between participants. In the following video, purple represents for-credit participants; blue, participants in open modality; red, people without a blog but contributing with comments along the course. Each line represents a comment in a blog and the relative size of each node, the visibility of each person:
In November, thanks to an invitation by the Heinrich Böll Foundation (Germany), I attended the first International Commons Conference, held in Berlin. This allowed me to attend, also, the VII Open Education Conference, held in Barcelona (Spain), where my experience with the Open Online Courses was presented (paper available).
After this presentation, I was invited to meetings about Open Educational Practices held at UNESCO (Paris) and then to talk about my experience at United Nations University (Bonn).
In April, I was invited to be part of the Advisory Board for the New Media Consortium's Horizon Report for Ibero-america. As part of the activities of the report, I presented my experience with OOC at "Emergent technologies in Iberoamerican higher education", a webinar organized by Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain).