My Top 10 Learning Tools for 2024
Jane Hart has surveyed and published the Top 100 Tools for Learning list for the last decade. Here are my current top tools, in no particular order. Feedly—RSS lives! This app has been a lifeline for following blogs and other publications since I abandoned that social media site whose name shall not be mentioned. I…
Things I was wrong about pt2: The Death of the VLE
I smell another book from Martin Weller (this would actually be a great one to follow up 25 Years of Ed Tech). His latest blog series looks at What I Was Wrong About and the second post is all about the death of the VLE (or LMS on this side of the Atlantic). I sympathize with…
Role of AI chatbots in education: systematic literature review
Labadze, L., Grigolia, M., & Machaidze, L. (2023). Role of AI chatbots in education: systematic literature review. International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education, 20(1), 56. Overview The article systematically reviews the role of AI chatbots in education, analyzing their benefits, challenges, and potential limitations. It examines the integration of chatbots from the perspectives of students…
What is the purpose of educational technology?
Martin Weller kicks off an interesting question, that honestly, would be an amazing session in an EdTech program (hint hint), what is the purpose of educational technology? Martin proposes: Improve learning performance: Educational technology aims to enhance learning outcomes as measured by assessments and tests, though long-term impacts on performance may vary. Making learning more…
Creating a CPR in Veterinary Medicine Scenario in H5P
Through the end of 2022 I had the privilege of working with Jen Loewen on a branching scenario about CPR in veterinary medicine. This was a really cool project and a perfect example of an approach to instructional design that started with design & prototyping and used iterative feedback to dial in the design and…
Reclaiming ProComOER
I’ve worked as an instructional designer (or very adjacent roles) in higher education for over ten years. Over that time, I’ve had the opportunity to work on hundreds of courses and projects involving staff training, knowledge bases, tutorials, etc. When I look back on the projects I’ve worked on in that time, the ProComOER is…
On missing flash and hitting pages
I bumped into this post via Pat Lockely on Linkedin and it made me reflect on a couple of things, including kicking me into gear to write a bit about a project from last year I’ve been meaning to write about, so thanks Pat! I’m doing a lot of work in articulate 360 or storyline…
Christmas came early from OTacke’s Lab
I’ve been waiting a few days to investigate new H5P content types from OTacke’s Lab (Oliver Tacke). Recently he attended an OERcamp and revealed new content types. Thank goodness for Twitter’s translate tweet feature because my German is mostly rust by now. So what is up first? We have a new content type called H5P.transcript.…
Choose Your Own Adventure Presentation – H5P Roadshow
The H5P roadshow slowed down a little bit in 2022, but I recently had the opportunity to talk with instructional designers, trainers, and other learning professionals at Saskatchewan Polytechnic about H5P. Now, I could have opened up old presentations directly, but why not try something new? This time around I took some inspiration from Alan…
Pressbooks sustainability question
Pressbooks sustainability question came in via Stephen’s Web ~ OLDaily . Original Post. If you were a Pressbooks.com user you are likely aware now that the service is changing over to Pressbooks.pub. That is not the only news that came with the announcement. The product is moving towards something more akin to what I’ve been…