Courses That Matter Manifesto

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The document discusses principles for online courses that matter. It emphasizes teaching people rather than just topics, communicating and transforming, valuing all contributions, treating online communities as living beings to feed with the best knowledge and ideas, supporting members to create their own solutions, designing safe spaces with shared interests and connections, nurturing real learning driven by students, making messy learning matter through more doing and less reading, being personal and designing experiences and opportunities for social and personal growth, being open to transformation and personal connections, taking time to learn, encouraging a ripple effect, and achieving it all online.

Courses that Matter

Teach people, not Topics

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Teaching Matters

Courses that so
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Reach Matters so
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Transform.
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Value Contributions.

Plant

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Online Communities are

LIVING
Beings.

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Feed them your BEST.

Best Knowledge

Best Ideas

BEST of You

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Support members to create

their own knowledge

and

solutions to own problems.

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Design a Safe Space

with

Shared Interest
and
Connections.

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Real learning is driven by students.

BUT

nurtured by teachers.

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Learning is MESSY.

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Make
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Provide more doing.

Less
Reading.

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Be

Personal.

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Create content that

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Design Experiences that

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Provide Social and

PERSONAL
OPPORTUNITIES.

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Be
OPEN
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TRANSFORMATION.

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Be ready for PERSONAL

CONNECTIONS.

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Take the
time
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LEARN.
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Your Learners will

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Encourage the
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It can all be achieved

ONLINE.

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