Polilogue

In the GSCC online community, or polilogue, faculty work in discipline-based groups called ped circles, they collaborate in full group forums called choice events, and “talk” informally in the Coffee Klatch.

• Pedagogical Circles
• Choice Events
• Coffee Klatch

1. Pedagogical Circles

Each faculty member is assigned to a Circle for a semester. These are small discipline-based groups -  two for writing and two for math. Ped Circle members review one another’s ePortfolios and regularly come together in polilogue to discuss and analyze their work.

2. Choice Events

Periodically during a semester the full GSCC faculty group participates in a forum or online asynchronous discussion. In the second semester Choice Events have focused on the process and value of tagging, and on the revisions to the GSCC themes that emerged from the faculty work.

3.Coffee Klatch

In addition to structured interactions, the polilogue contains an open community space called the Coffee Klatch. There is no prescribed participation requirement here, rather it is the virtual water cooler around which ideas and questions are traded. The Coffee Klatch is as much a check on the GSCC work process as it is on pedagogical practice, and so contributes importantly to our understanding of the work.

Knowledge in the Public Interest is responsible for the online community “curriculum” and knowledge architecture as well as for the platform, which is a highly customized version of Moodle, open source web-based software.

Polilogue, is also home to the GSCC Research Team virtual office. Everything we do, write, and think can be found in polilogue, which enables a high level of transparency – a guiding principle of the project.