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CSS Zen Garden: The Beauty of CSS Design
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The use of MOOC as a means of creating a collaborative learning environment in a blended CLIL course
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(16) Collaborative Learning in a MOOC Environment | Request PDF
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Machine Learning Applications in E-Learning: Bias, Risks and Mitigation
- Personalized and adaptive learning has the ability to change learning content or the mode of delivery on the fly and to provide real-time feedback to learners
- Personalized learning paths:
- Personalized learning paths are either pregenerated based on job roles, org charts, competencies required, etc., or can be changed dynamically based on learners’ progress, interest or some other criteria.
- Chatbots:
- intelligent tutoring system, that present a learning concept with a series of conversations
- pinpoint a certain learning pattern, such as significant spikes in course failings, so instructors can intervene before it is too late.
- Performance indicator
- Prediction could be too prescriptive
- Preferences are largely context dependent
- There is usually not enough data to make useful recommendations.
- Machine learning and big data analysis cannot sufficiently replace instructor observations and feedback from learners, peers and managers
- Adaptive learning is costly and time consuming to build
- granularity is an issue
- Will you adapt at the curriculum level, course level or module level? Per activity or scenario? A content system requires constant updating and monitoring, especially with multiple pathways.
- A focus on good instructional design and interaction principles is sufficient.
- Algorithm black box
- researchers in AI and machine learning say that algorithms used by organizations can be opaque and discriminatory.
- One notion to counter algorithm black box is advocating the use of explainable AI. Essentially, XAI programs enable users to understand and provide input on the decision-making process to improve algorithmic accountability.
- Trust
- ownership and governance of data is often ill-defined or not defined at all
- huge amount of personal data.
- What happens when the prediction goes wrong? Should you make recommendations to learners who don’t want them? Who owns those data?
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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality | EdSurge News
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"Thus, the data indicates a possible connection between exceptional instructor performance and classes that have been QM Recognized within three years. Also noteworthy, two of the instructors who scored exceptional taught Course C, indicating a possible connection between that particular course and high observation scores."
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- they do address a previously unmet need for continuous education among graduates
- MOOCs can be a good replacement for the kind of teaching that is typically done in a large lecture hall.
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MIT Machine Learning Model Learns from Audio Descriptions -- Campus Technology
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Educause Explores Future of Extended Reality on Campus -- Campus Technology
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Bringing Primary Source Materials to Life with AR -- Campus Technology
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Berkeley College Faculty Test VR for Learning -- Campus Technology
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Providing some clarity on Open Badges 2.0 | Open Educational Thinkering
- reminding ourselves of the difference between a ‘badge class’ (i.e. metadata contained in every badge of that type) and an ‘assertion’ (i.e. metadata contained in a badge that’s unique to the individual).
- Version 2.0 of the Open Badges specification makes new features available both in the badge class and assertion, as well as other, ‘miscellaneous’ features.
- Endorsements — a type of badge that is issued to a whole range of people can now be endorsed by a third party
- Embed criteria — criteria about what an individual had to do to earn a badge can now be embedded directly into the badge class
- Endorsements — a badge that is issued to an individual, or subset of the whole group of people who have earned that type of badge, can now be endorsed by a third party.
- Embed evidence — the evidence proving an individual has met the criteria to be issued a badge can now be embedded in assertions
- Internationalisation — badges can now be issued in multiple language, and users can see that this is the case
- Version control — the specification now allows updates to be made to badges and, like a wiki, the differences between versions can be viewed
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Concentric Sky | Developer’s Guide to Issuing Open Badges 2.0
- New in 2.0 is the inclusion of verification instructions for Assertions awarded by this profile, which allows issuers to be explicit about how they award badges.
- but in 2.0, issuers may use an ephemeral
idand are no longer required to have an HTTP identifier and associated hosted record but can use other identifiers. - more robustly machine readable
- opening up the possibility for badges to be awarded to other issuers, to organizations identified by
url, to individuals identified by a social media profile url ortelephonenumber as well as the most common method,email. - New metadata is also available for Assertions in the form of the option to include Evidence records and
narratives that describe the process of meeting criteria, potentially connecting multiple evidence records and alignments.
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Digital Credentials Institute (DCI) | Madison Area Technical College
- The purpose of DCI will be to provide free and subscription-based research on micro credentials and digital badge programs worldwide. We anticipate that The Digital Credentials Institute, along with IMS Global, will become the authoritative voice in understanding adoption, trends and topics impacting digital credentials, workforce training and development.
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What Are Open Badges? - Badge Wiki
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- Open Badges are not controlled by any one organisation. The technology that underpins the whole system (the Open Badges Infrastructure, or OBI) is a free, open-source and run for the world wide commun
As indicated in the quote taken from the Badge Alliance website above, Open Badges take digital badges one step further. They are more suitable to be used as credentials as they have information about the learning experience baked in. Open Badges can be validated by anyone wanting to check up on an individual’s claim to knowledge or skills.
Unlike digital badges, users can take their Open Badges can display them anywhere across the web. Open Badges are portable credentials. This works in a similar way to videos from YouTube being embedded on blogs, wikis, and other websites. Collections of badges — which may feature some from two or more different organisations — can be displayed in a way that makes sense to the user.
There are several important differences between digital badges and Open Badges:
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Saturday, September 15, 2018
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Why L&D Professionals Must Engage in Their Own Learning and Development - Skillsoft
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Eight skills for L&D professionals to future proof your career
- From the rise of AI, the gig economy, and continued digital disruption, today's rapid transformation brings to mind the words of Jack Welch, who warned: “If the rate of change on the outside exceeds the rate of change on the inside, the end is near.
- These 4 areas represent complex skills at the pointy end of Bloom's taxonomy and they all require considerable support and development to achieve...
- At a time when Learning Professionals should be taking our 'seat at the table' to help support transformation, most Learning and Development functions are struggling to justify their existence
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Thinking about the Future of Work to Make Better Decisions about Learning Today | EDUCAUSE
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Microcredentials and Educational Technology: A Proposed Ethical Taxonomy | EDUCAUSE
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Shaping the Educational Technology Innovation Ecosystem | EDUCAUSE
Saturday, September 1, 2018
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AI can now tell your boss what skills you lack—and how you can get them - MIT Technology Review
- The feature, which the Bay Area startup announced today, lets companies that subscribe to its training programs see which of their employees are earning top scores in Coursera classes; how their employees’ skills measure up to their competitors’; and what courses would help fill any knowledge gaps.
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Fun With Brazilian Portuguese | Practice and Learn Brazilian Portuguese
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Theorizing Culture and Communication in the Asian Context: An Assumptive Foundation
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(16) Hofstede and learning in higher level education: An empirical study | Request PDF
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National Culture - Hofstede Insights
- The cultural dimensions represent independent preferences for one state of affairs over another that distinguish countries (rather than individuals) from each other.
- culture can only be used meaningfully by comparison.
- degree to which the less powerful members of a society accept and expect that power is distributed unequally
- . The fundamental issue here is how a society handles inequalities among people.
- People in societies exhibiting a large degree of Power Distance accept a hierarchical order in which everybody has a place and which needs no further justification. In societies with low Power Distance, people strive to equalise the distribution of power and demand justification for inequalities of power.
- A society’s position on this dimension is reflected in whether people’s self-image is defined in terms of “I” or “we.”
- The Masculinity side of this dimension represents a preference in society for achievement, heroism, assertiveness, and material rewards for success. Society at large is more competitive. Its opposite, Femininity, stands for a preference for cooperation, modesty, caring for the weak and quality of life.
- The Uncertainty Avoidance dimension expresses the degree to which the members of a society feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and ambiguity. The fundamental issue here is how a society deals with the fact that the future can never be known: should we try to control the future or just let it happen?
- Every society has to maintain some links with its own past while dealing with the challenges of the present and the future
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Societies who score low on this dimension, for example, prefer to maintain time-honoured traditions and norms while viewing societal change with suspicion.
Those with a culture which scores high, on the other hand, take a more pragmatic approach: they encourage thrift and efforts in modern education as a way to prepare for the future.
- Indulgence stands for a society that allows relatively free gratification of basic and natural human drives related to enjoying life and having fun. Restraint stands for a society that suppresses gratification of needs and regulates it by means of strict social norms.
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- More than 60 percent believe it will transform the automotive industry, oil and gas industries, life sciences and financial services.
- Although we keep reading that blockchain is going to disrupt transactions around the world, the reality is that very few companies have ventured to transform their processes. Executives think there are not many projects that justify the effort of implementing this technology in any of its services.
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Priorities and Characteristics of the New Learning Leaders — Observatory of Educational Innovation
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- Create an ecosystem that encourages digital learning in school.
- Modeling with professors the professional learning that stimulates constant updating, self-evaluation, experimentation and the use of new methodologies.
- Guarantee students access to learning at any time and in any place.
- Enable ubiquitous connectivity for students and teachers.
- Advocate for a diversity of strategies to influence students wherever they are.
- Communicate a shared vision within the school community, including parents.
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- They promote mixed learning, competency-based learning and flipped learning in their educational institutions.
- They handle data to exercise their leadership; to inform objectives, give feedback to teachers, and show outcomes to parents, among others.
- They maintain high morale of teachers through training and support to adopt new strategies and digital materials.
- They are updated continuously by attending conferences, watching webinars and TED talks, as well as following Twitter experts.
- They continuously communicate with parents changes in school practices or educational innovations that they implement.
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What An Instructional Designer Does? 3 Myths Revealed - eLearning Industry
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Is It Necessary For An Instructional Designer To Be A Subject Matter Expert? - eLearning Industry
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Instructional Design Process: A Step-By-Step Guide - eLearningDom
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SMEs Are Not Instructional Designers - Knowledge Direct Learning Management System
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10 Blogs for Working With SMEs To Create Performance-Changing e-Learning
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Where is blockchain technology going in the future? - eCampus News
- Supporters say blockchain technology has several applications in higher education, including in credentialing and security. Others caution that the technology may be too expensive or complicated to implement, or that the space between understanding and implementation is too large to bridge.
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The Age of Convergence: Considering a Continuum and an Unbundling of Education | The EvoLLLution
Saturday, July 21, 2018
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Training Needs Analysis For eLearning: 2 Sets Of Questions To Ask The Client - eLearning Industry
- identify, define, and document all client training requirements related to the specific eLearning course(s) to be developed, in a measurable and testable way.
- Behavioral / Performance Requirements.
- What behavioral changes are expected
- How these behavioral changes will be measured
- the technical feasibility of the eLearning project from the client’s side
- Technical Requirements of the eLearning Course
- Organizational Requirements
- Functional Requirements
- What is the estimated number of learners per eLearning course? How much control they will be given to leaners?
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Saturday, July 14, 2018
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New Resource Helps Students Ask the Right Questions About Online Learning -- Campus Technology
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Training design ideas from Cathy Moore
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The 6 Top Instructional Design Trends for 2017 - TalentLMS Blog
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Instructional Design Blog | Instructional Design Central (IDC)
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The eLearning Coach - For designing smarter learning experiences
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Quinnsights: Get Ready for Learning Engineering | LS
- And the recurrent prevalence of myths in learning indicates that science still doesn’t rule our practices.
- While cognitive awareness has moved to incorporate perspectives like situated, distributed, and social cognition, our practices in learning still largely come back to spaced, varied, and deliberate practice.
- Following that thinking learning engineering should just mean “applied learning science,” however a new initiative is pushing this further.
- Its definition is “merging engineering and systems thinking with learning science and theories of human development.” And this is a valuable perspective.
- The focus is on applying learning science to new technologies. There is certainly room for improvement in existing technologies as well, such as learning management systems, authoring tools, mobile learning, simulations, and more
- There’s also a fair bit of ground to cover. When you take a full ecosystem perspective, you are looking at formal learning, performance support, and social and informal learning.
- Similarly, the wide variety of technologies includes associated processes like software engineering, usability, and project management. Also, awareness of the contexts of application—K-12 and higher education, organizations, as well as “none-of-the-above”—would be required.
- The inclusion of systems thinking is also important. Full solutions include an environmental scan outward from the core experience to the legal, social, and other implications.
- You could look at design thinking here, as well.
- To create a true user-centric learning and performance environment, a successful integration of the skills suggested would be necessary, including knowledge of the domains and of process.
- Most of these new initiatives are integrations of new technology to learning. Thus, these efforts require a skillset composed of technology awareness, learning science comprehension, the ability to envision the integration, and the ability to execute against that vision
- While not everyone needs every skill, someone has to oversee the integration, and it helps when there’s a shared understanding of the overall picture
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The world's smartest cities: What IoT and smart governments will mean for you - TechRepublic
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IoT and Government: how new tech is driving economic development
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