Week 12 – Wearables
Hello team 522! Welcome to the last Opportunity Forecast. The topic of our OER was Wearable Technology and we have had an immensely interesting time delving into this emerging market over the weeks leading up to our creation and launch of this resource. For this OER we have the following learning outcomes: Describe the origins […]
Week 11: Microlearning OER
Hello Fellow ETEC’ers from Kendra, Michael, and Matthew! Welcome to Week 11 of the Opportunity Forecasts and our presentation on Microlearning! Winston Churchill once said “Personally, I am always ready to learn; although I don’t always like being taught”. In a world that moves at high speed and requires fast reactions, microlearning is a new […]
Updated OER wk9 Immersive Experience
Dear Fellow Students, A big THANK you for your active participation in week 9 OER’s in XR Immersive Experience. We have taken your feedback and advise into account and have updated our OER. Also we have added a 30 mins interview, based on your questions, with XR Professional Rob Theriault, Please find our updated version […]
Week 10 – AI in Education: Forecast 2020
What does A.I. ACTUALLY mean? (we won’t judge you if you don’t really know). Computers are really good at storing, organizing, fetching, and processing information. This has obvious applications for calculations, models, archives, records, etc. Artificial Intelligence takes computing a massive step further by having computer programs that are able to learn from data, make […]
Week 8: Big Data & Learning Analytics (OER Summary)
Thank you to all participants of Week 8’s Big Data & Learning Analytics! As a group, we learned a lot about the topic to put this OER together, and we learned even more from all of you who provided solid feedback on what worked and what didn’t work. Thanks to your input, we modified some […]
Immersive Experience (XR)
Welcome to this Week 9 – Opportunity Forecast- We are happy to welcome you in the world of Immersive Experience (XR), we hope that with our OER you are able to understand, learn, and reflect on the topic of Immersive Experience. In other words in AR and VR (XR) experiences… Concrete examples or experiences with […]
Personalized Learning
Personalized Learning By meeting every student at their own level, personalized learning seeks to customize the learning experience for every student according to their skills, abilities, preferences, backgrounds and experiences. While it is not a new idea, what is new is the way educators can use technology to tap into student’s interests, backgrounds, abilities and […]
Week 8: Big Data and Learning Analytics
Welcome to our OER! Your hosts for this week are: Amanda K., Cassandra C., and Vivien K.! This week, we will be exploring Big Data & Learning Analytics and its impact on education. We will have a focus on K-12 Education, although many of the concepts and ideas covered can be applied to both higher […]
OER Week 7
Hi everyone! It has come to our attention that a Padlet on our OER under k-12 Special Education wasn’t functioning correctly. It has since been fixed and you can now add to that Padlet! Thanks
W07: Game-based Learning
Dear ETEC522’ers Welcome to Week 7 where the topic for the week will be Game-based Learning! We hope that you will enjoy going through our OER this week and that there will be an opportunity for you to learn at least one or two new things regarding the use of games in education. Of course, […]
W06: Mobile Learning
Mobile learning is quickly becoming a buzz word in the world of education. It is appearing in all areas of education from the public system, to corporate training, to personal growth (think duolingo). Take a moment to post what the term mobile learning means to you here https://www.menti.com/ Code: 64 94 24 At the […]
W05: Personalized Learning
Welcome to Week 5! We are very excited to kick off the Opportunity Forecast portion of this course with our OER on Personalized Learning. Personalized Learning was quite the interesting topic to tackle, as it is an intersection point of many of the emerging markets you will all be guiding us through over the coming […]
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Please note that everything posted earlier than this post in this Category is part of ETEC522 “Archives” – they are the collected contributions of past cohorts of this course. You are encouraged to review these for reference and inspiration – the authors are brilliant!
Week 12: Neuroscience and Learning
Welcome to Week 12. Join us on our site where we share our surprise and excitement from the frontiers of science and education. The rapid developments in the science may unlock many of the secrets of learning that both educators and learners have been seeking from the earliest times. Or, as some would say, trying […]
Week 11: Adaptive Learning OER
Adaptive learning technologies help scale the benefits of individualized learning through the use of designed or algorithmic adaptivity to collect and analyze data as students learn. We explore some of the giants, rookies and companies in between to paint a picture of the adaptive learning landscape and the opportunities therein. Our team developed a trio […]
Week 10: Immersive Experience
One of the biggest demands facing industries across multiple disciplines is to grow and develop soft skills of employees and students. This demand has gained momentum, paralleling trends in globalization and the increasing presence of technology in the workplace, and VR is here to meet this need. As you explore our OER, you will learn […]
W09: Personalized Learning
Greetings and welcome to our Personalized Learning OER! As a new, developing technological direction and a very popular teaching and learning method, an understanding of personalized learning is both important and useful for educators, students, investors and tech-users alike. In order to provide this, we have selected and researched four useful topics on this Edtech […]
Welcome to Week 8 – Mobile Learning
This week you will be exploring the digital world of social media. For our mobile learning module, we encourage everyone to use our OER and participate in the activities with their mobile devices! Our intent is to showcase how easy it is learn and share while on the go. Click HERE for our OER and […]
Week 7 – AI Tutors & Chatbots OER
Welcome to Week 7 everyone, we are already halfway done! This week our team will take you through the exciting world of Artificial Intelligence, in particular AI Tutors and Chatbots. Hope you find it interesting! Head over to our Google Site: https://sites.google.com/view/ai-innovations/
W06: Game Based Learning OER
Hello Gamers! Welcome to our OER on Game Based Learning created by Johnny Wu, Brogan Pratt, Chava Kassierer and Sylvia Chu. The OER will take you on a journey through various levels of activities in which you will play through and learn about the theories of G.B.L. (Game Based Learning), a few examples of what […]
Week #5- Digital Textbooks OER by Charmaine, Jennifer, Scott, and Sarah
Are you an educator concerned with the rising costs of textbooks? Are you looking for ways to better engage your students? Are you interested in open educational resources? Take a look at our stop motion video below as our official “Launchpad” for digital textbooks for this week! Once you have checked out the video, […]
Artificial Intelligence In Education
How to Proceed Access our OER here https://blogs.ubc.ca/etec522ai This OER has been divided into three different parts to guide your inquiry into AI. There are focus questions throughout the module. These are meant to provoke thought and inspire your responses in the activities Part 1 – Core Knowledge Read through the “Introduction” and “Startups and […]
Augmented Reality in Science and Health
This is Catherine. She has a hard time imagining pictures she sees in books as they are in real life. She’s bored in her 6th grade science class, mostly because she doesn’t understand some of what her teacher tries to explain. Augmented Reality can help her. This is Becca. She’s a 1st year Medical […]
Game-Based Learning
Welcome! You’ve probably heard the term “Game-Based Learning”, along with “learning games” and “serious games”. The truth is they’re all basically the same thing, and people playing these games will either learn something, or be able to do something, after playing them. But what does this actually look like in practice? Is anyone actually using it […]
Microlearning to encourage maximum productivity!
Microlearing is not a new concept; however, the term microlearning is rather new. Current educational, professional, and social trends often encourage maximum productivity, yet provide less than optimal time frames for this achievement. Click here to learn more about how you can encourage maximum productivity through microlearning in K-12, Professional Training, and Higher Education contexts. In addition, […]
Week 8 – Self-directed Learning OER
Hi Everyone! Welcome to Week 8 and our presentation on Self-guided eLearning. We’ve focussed on what we think will be the next big compelling opportunity in the world of self directed eLearning. What is it? Well, you’ll have to click in to find out! You can find our OER here: https://tinyurl.com/future-corporate-sdl We encourage you to […]
Mobile Learning
Here is the link to our OER about Mobile Learning, and particularly, Mobile LMS technology: https://jonesylvr.wixsite.com/mobile-devices-522 Week Overview This week you will explore Mobile Learning Management Systems, or Mobile LMS. We ask that, if possible, you do all of this week’s reading & activities from your SmartPhone or Tablet. You will be moving between 2 […]
ChatBots – An Open Educational Resource
Welcome to our Week 6 OER on ChatBots! We’ve focused on the potential applications of ChatBots in Education by exploring their origins, use in business and education, and then by creating our own examples. Here’s our Let’s Get Started ChatBot. Looking for a link to the main OER? Try this. Enjoy! Team ChatBots (Kate, Aggie, […]
Week 5: Adaptive Learning Technologies
Hello! We’d like to welcome you to this week’s opportunity forecast on the use of Adaptive Learning Technologies to increase personalized learning. You can access our OER here: https://blogs.ubc.ca/adaptivelearningtech/ We’re glad to have you join us this week to further explore this topic. Regards, Inhee, Bryn and Molly
W12: Digital Textbooks and their Designs
Textbooks are shifting to digital, becoming highly interactive, non-linear, and cloud-based. Digital textbooks will incorporate much more than static pictures and charts—they will feature video, audio, links, search capabilities, social media connections, and much more. The possibilities seem endless, and these upgrades to textbooks will completely redefine the paradigm in which we structure and organize information. Students […]
W11: Visual Intensive Learning
Visual Intensive Learning is a huge category that covers many types of technology. This area is growing not only in education, but in all spheres of life. Learn how to get your students prepared for life by improving their ability to present information in an easy to understand and visually appealing style. Get students ready […]
W10: Teachback
We would like to welcome you to this week’s opportunity forecast on Teachback by Kat Costales and Derek Wong. Please watch the video below for an introduction to our OER. We hope you have a great week learning about Teachback at https://etec522teachback.weebly.com Kat & Derek
W09: AR & VR
We would like to welcome you to this week’s opportunity forecast on Augmented and Virtual Reality. Please watch the video below for an introduction to our OER. It is a 360 degree video so be sure to click and drag on the video to change your point of view! We hope you have a great […]
3D Printing OER
Welcome to our 3D Printing Online Educational Resource by Marshall Hacker and Ebru Bengisu. We have designed and created a site that is focused around introducing 3D printing to the educational setting and showing what can result from these additions. It is our hope that our classmates will gain some new drafting skills and see the potential […]
MicroLearning: Small Bites, Big Impact
Opportunity Forecast for MicroLearning – REVISIT JoAnna and Shannon thank everyone for the hearty participation, feedback and kind words you provided while using our site this week! Between the dates of February 11th and February 18th, the MicroLearning OER had 38 visits to the site with the highest number of views occurring on February 13th. […]
OER: Reading Out Loud, Reading While Listening, Big Data & Learning Analytics!
Hi Everyone, My OER is focused on Big Data & Learning Analytics as they relate to literacy. I’ve created an OER that aims to inspire literacy through Reading Out Loud (which can provide metrics and gamification) as well as Reading While Listening which can positively impact those in our community as well as people around the […]
Please remember to add your name.
When commenting on our Game-Based Learning site, if you are not using a padlet account, please put your name at the bottom of your post. There are several posts that we can not identify the author of. If it was you, please go back and add you name to get credit for your work. Thanks, […]
Game-based Learning International’s (GBLI) Market Opportunity Forecasts
Welcome! With unprecedented growth over the next five years expected in Game-based Learning, this market opportunity summary, presented by Game-based Learning International, Inc. (GBLI), provides insights into what is driving growth and what particular segments will be the major catalysts. Co-founders, CEO Brian Haas and Chief Creative Designer Cassy Weber, provide compelling insights into the […]
Week 12 – Big Data & Learning Analytics Analysis
Hello Everyone! Many Thanks for everyone’s participation in our OER. It was a great week for us, OER started July 30th to August 6th, 42 unique visitors during the week with 607 page views. The busiest day for visitors (11) was the Aug 1st start day, and the highest number of page views (243) was […]
Week 12 – Big Data & Learning Analytics
Welcome to Week 12 and our exploration of Big Data and Learning Analytics. For a quick idea of what is in store for this week check out the introductory video below. See you online and “happy data gathering.” The Big Data & Learning Analytics Team, Eva, Stephanie and Janna http://bigdatalearninganalytics.weebly.com