Category: Conferences

We Underestimate the Testing Effect

The opening plenary session of EDEN was mostly about assessment. Although they call it the testing effect, a number of the tools the presenter showed included assessment techniques beyond what we would normally assume to be straight up MCQs in perpetuity. (e-)assessment – exam – evaluation – certification The presenter began with the Ebbinghaus’ forgetting…

By JR July 11, 2019 Off

EDEN Day 3

I attended a synergies session this morning where quite a few short and sweet presentations were given. There was a bit of conversation and indications from the presenters and audience that a number of the projects overlapped and that they would need to connect following the conference. This post will mostly just be a blast…

By JR July 4, 2019 Off

EDEN day 2

Making Connections in Distance Education This morning we had an engaging presentation from Jan Elen (KU Leuven, Center for Instructional Psychology and Technology, Belgium). He told the story of their journey to distance delivery of brand new programs, the context and the challenges. Of course one of the key issues was that this was to…

By JR July 4, 2019 Off

EDEN Day 1

Well, I ended up with like half a dozen new blog posts that will not become their own posts by this point. I sometimes see people go to conferences and make individual posts for every session, and kudos to them, that’s just impossible for me it seems despite my best intentions. We Underestimate the Testing…

By JR June 17, 2019 Off

OEGlobal 2018 Day2

The TU Delft Campus is full of interesting sculptures. Working at the intersection of open research and open education Erin McKiernan’s keynote provided a deeper dive on what open education could mean in a physiology classroom. There were not any mentions of textbooks, or wikipedia, but instead she focused on what teaching and learning looks…

By JR April 25, 2018 Off

OEGlobal18 Day 1

I think the only way to describe this conference is “jam packed”. 20-25 minute sessions back to back to back to back to back. It’s a lot to take in, and some of it definitely sticks and some of it runs off of your already over saturated brain. Today certainly had it’s highlights though: Open…

By JR April 24, 2018 Off

OER18 Lightning Talks

Layne Lawson This might be the first, true to form, lightning talks segment I’ve been to at a conference. I have to say that all of the presenters and the time keeper were quite respectful of one another. Other times I see this format play out at conferences there is always at least one person…

By JR April 19, 2018 Off