Quick Reflection – I Did the Extend mOOC Work We Ask of Participants
[quote cite=”CogDog (Alan Levine)” url=”https://cogdogblog.com/2019/03/doing-the-extend-work/”]Do you ever do your own assignments? [/quote] Alan reflects on his experience teaching courses like DS106 and doing some of the assignments along side his students and how it helps him to refine those assignments and course materials generally. Currently eCampus Ontario is going through their extend MOOC and Alan…
Is the current use of video a step backwards in online learning?
I recently read Dr. Tony Bates’ recent blog post Is the current use of video a step backwards in online learning? and thought I’d take a crack at a response based on some of my observations in the use of video in online learning. Note that this is only the instances that I’ve seen and…
Nvidia Will End Support for Its 3D Glasses, an Incredible Technology You Definitely Use
[quote cite=”Victoria Song” url=”https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-will-end-support-for-its-3d-glasses-an-incredib-1833202433?utm_medium=socialflow&utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter”]Remember back when 3D TVs, movies, live sporting events, and glasses were a thing? Yeah, well, Nvidia realizes you don’t either, and as a result, it’s pulling support for 3D Vision, its platform for gaming with 3D glasses.[/quote] In a recent presentation I did for the Canadian Association of Instructional Designers, What…
Learning Experiences
[quote cite=”Leonard Houx, via Donald Clark Plan B” url=”http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2019/03/learning-experiences-often-not-learning.html”]Part of the problem with all this talk about ‘learning experience’ is it’s questionable whether learning is actually experienced at all.[/quote] Ran across this today, and reminded me about the recent sprint away from ‘instructional design’ to ‘learning design’ and the assumptions and nuance to those two…
The More I Teach the Less I Preach (republished)
It might be interesting at somepoint for me to reflect back on my habits of going through my RSS feed. I think I assume that I would check up on any new items that come through the feed in order, but I seem to let certain feeds build up and then binge on one or…
Taking @creativecommons Course: A Pre-Reflection
I’m currently a member of Creative Commons’ Open Education Platform, and while I myself am not enrolled in their Certificate courses I keep an eye out for news about them. It looks like Maha Bali (from such great collaborations as Virtually Connecting and TvsZ 6.0) is enrolled in the course and posted her first reflection.…
End of an Era – (The Very Last) Hack Education Weekly News
Each week for the past eight or so years, I have gathered a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. – Audrey Watters, 2018 Although I have not followed Audrey’s work for the entirety of those eight years, I can still remember sitting at my desk as a graduate student trying to…
Case Study: Using a Magazine Format for eLearning
If you follow elearning bloggers and don’t yet follow Connie Malamed you should. She writes quite a lot about her projects in an accessible format. A few years ago I purchased her book Visual Design Solutions which presented elearning concepts through text and imagery. Even though I don’t design online courses in quite the same…