Keeping the Human Element in Learning Using Technology
Hello everyone, I hope you are all keeping well and staying healthy. I just came across this article which was published on Wednesday. The article reflects on recent events and the changes in the teaching and learning environment many are experiencing now. The author was part of an education technology start-up company for micro-schools in […]
Feeling Pressured to be Productive at the moment? Don’t be…
Hi All So on a day where I should have been much more productive than what has really transpired, I received an email from a friend/ colleague with a link to this article. Wow, did I need it! I’m sharing it here not because it necessarily is related to educational technology but because it relates […]
Tony Bates: Advice on how to teach online amid the corona virus pandemic
I thought I would share this link from Tony Bates (who some of you might know was one of the people that helped establish the MET program) on how to teach online in light of the corona virus. It’s actually fairly “old” in terms of how fast things are currently progressing (original post was 9 […]
Zoom – Video Conferencing
Hey All, I just wanted to share a piece of technology that seems to be having a heyday with the recent suspension of in-person university classes. It’s called Zoom and it’s a video conferencing application that professors have been using to hold online classes. I’ve been on social media a ton recently, constantly looking for […]
Icons for new tech
While designing my A3 pitches, I was having trouble finding the specific kinds of icons I was looking for to represent the newest learning technologies, and then I discovered The Noun Project! A fair amount of icons are available in the public domain for free, and there are icons representative of ed tech, online learning, AI, women, […]
VR meeting spaces
In light of COVID-19 and the new world we are living in, I’d like to share a few XR ventures that help bring people together, for business and for pleasure. Spatial, focused on bringing teams together to collaborate virtually, has a free plan: up to 4 people, up to 45 minutes per session, and enterprise […]
Is this the strangest, most important time in history for online education?
I don’t mean to undermine the efforts of this week’s impressive OER. But for crying out loud!!! These are strange days! In the face of the pandemic, how can we deploy our skills to help schools and businesses get through it? What is the best way I can use my skills as an online educator […]
The Difficult Path to AI’s Promise
Pertinent to this week’s focus, I just came across the following article in the MIT Technology Review: The Messy Reality of OpenAI From an ETEC522 perspective it is a very worthwhile read. It is simultaneously an analysis of a single well-funded venture and of the entire frontier of AI: is it possible for AI’s general […]
Business Horizons: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
There are some pretty interesting articles in here that make Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning a little easier to understand in real world contexts. No need to be a data scientist or AI wunderkind to glean some useful insights on these emerging sectors. “The articles in this special issue will serve as a guide for […]
Protecting Intellectual Property (IP)
So, I have a lot of good ideas 😉 And one thing I worry about is protecting those good ideas. This is particularly true as I move through the exercise of building out an idea that I hope has genuine potential as a business. But what is stopping Google, for example, from mining my good […]
Great IDEO: Bendable
There is really no design firm in the world I admire more than IDEO. They continue to push the boundaries in all sorts of areas, including education. Bendable is an interesting idea. I must admit I haven’t entirely wrapped my head around how this can and will work. But from what I do understand I […]
*NB* Forum Archives Below
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!
Personalized Learning OER Revision
Hey all, Herewith the revisions for our Personalized Learning OER. Based on your feedback we have included a reference list and an overview of current products and ventures on the market! Thanks for your help in making this a better learning experience for all. Click on the image below to view them.
Adaptive Learning OER Results
Hi all, Here is an infographic of the Adaptive Learning OER poll, quiz, and other activity results:
Farewell to Digital Textbooks says this Aussie school
A friend recently shared this article about how this private school has chosen to eliminate digital textbooks in favour of hard copies, based on hard copies and test results. In light of our discussions around digital textbooks in week 5, I’m wondering how people feel about this? Any thoughts? https://www.smh.com.au/education/major-distraction-school-dumps-ipads-returns-to-paper-textbooks-20190329-p5191r.html
updated chatbot for week 7 team
Hi everyone, I analyzed the discussions that you all had with the week 7 chatbot, and it was interesting 😉 The bot handled most questions well, and some not so well. Here are some highlights: Interesting questions it handled OK What emotions are you able to emulate Do you have a heart Questions it did […]
The Lean Startup
Hey all, I’ve recently been making my way through The Lean Startup, by Eric Ries. Whilst it is definitely tinted with notes of touting this as the “final” solution to making new ventures a success, I have found it a really useful insight into how to shift a perspective and what a startup/innovation is and […]
Business Canvas
Hey all, For the aspiring business people, I have recently discovered the Business canvas model and have found it a very useful business snapshot. It gives a great overview of what your business looks like and what it does and/or needs. Here is a download to the full book and blank canvas: https://we.tl/t-qQMWnfWLwh And, if […]
Are Teacherless Classrooms an Emerging Market?
The following article from The Economist introduces a sticky issue in learning technologies, fronted by the Global Learning XPrize…. In poor countries technology can make big improvements to education Teachers are often unqualified, ignorant or absent; tablets show up and work Print edition | International Nov 15th 2018| NAIROBI AND GHANGHU At kicoshep school in Kibera, a […]
co.lab is an accelerator that works with startups
I found this Venture which sounds pretty exciting to me. co.lab is an accelerator that works with startups leveraging the power of digital games to build transformative educational technologies for PK-12 students and teacher. Check out the link to know more about the Venture https://angel.co/co-lab-1
Kickstarter – Distinct Lack of Elevator Pitches?
Hey, is anyone else finding that Kickstarter has very few (many no?) elevator pitches, with a specific aim at investors? At least not in video form. Many have nice supporting documentation and explanations of their products but rarely a video that could qualify as a pitch – generally the videos are a show-and-tell of the […]
Doubt! Need Help!!
Hi All, Can some please tell me what are historical pedagogies? threefold didactic/authentic/transformative pedagogies , fourfold didactic/authentic/functional/critical pedagogies ,a twofold distinction of didactic/reflexive pedagogies ? Thanks. Harshita
submission date for A4
Hi David, can you clarify to students in this 522 forum, when A4 is to be submitted, noting the assignment instructions indicate, on or before last day of class. Is last day of class Thursday this week? With thanks, Cassy Weber
A Student’s Guide to Tips, Tricks, & Enjoyment of ETEC Courses
Hi everyone, We did it! Another course under our belts and one step closer to our degree! The Digital Text Team (Jessica, Zain and myself) wanted to make sure that you had an easy link to our collaborative digital textbook. If you ever have the inclination to add to another chapter, fling me an email […]
Please sign up for your Week 12 activity ASAP.
Hi everyone, The Week 12 Digital Text Team (Zain, Jessica and Dana) need your help. Because we are using the free version of the digital textbook program, we are somewhat limited on the number of contributors we are allowed to have. To work around this issue, we have created a class email address for us […]
Good morning to all ETEC 522 — A2
Good morning — Brian and my A2 weeklong launch winds up tomorrow, when we’ll aggregate your insights into our final OER inputs. If you haven’t visited the GBL International site, please do so today if possible as the next OER is on deck tomorrow. We’ll look forward to your insights into this Opportunity Forecast — […]
GBL International A2
Good morning ETEC 522 — thanks Jessica and Robert for visiting the GBL International site, and a shout out to everyone to make sure you register your comments/insights into the padlets on the various pages (signing with your name if you don’t already have a padlet account). Brian will be aggregating these throughout the week. […]
Free Webinar about Serious Gaming
Hi everyone, If anyone is interested in attending this Free Webinar about Serious Gaming, just register here. https://www.trainingmagnetwork.com/events/1318?gref=TMNSA1-1-26-18 Zain
Would anyone like to share and contribute to a Google Calendar?
Hi everyone, In an effort to be more organized with my life in general, I am trying to put everything I do onto a Google Calendar. I am not very experienced with this platform and have traditionally worked with paper. But alas, I truly want to give this new digital lifestyle an honest go. Here […]
Thank you and farewell (for now)
As week 13 winds down and we’re concluding our work in this course, I want to extend a big thank you to the cohort in this semester’s ETEC 522. It was a fantastic and supportive group: I found each week’s OERs to be extremely interesting and useful, and this week’s venture pitch-pool was an exciting […]
The Economist: The Future of Learning
Some of you may appreciate the most recent (July 22) issue of The Economist, which has a focus on The Future of Learning. as a broad background to our studies in ETEC522.
Difficulty editing reply and review comments
Hi There, I seem to be having some difficulty with the replies and reviews to other’s posts. Sad to say, I wrote and edited the reply in Word before copy and pasting into the comments. Then when I posted all of my formattings has disappeared. Now my whole response is a big shapeless run-on paragraph. Currently […]
One on One Discussion and Social Innovation – The Loop
Finding ways to make meaningful connections with like minded people is a challenge. Connecting with other educators that share a passion for being on the leading edge of what is happening in the field of education is what The Loop is all about. The Loop has created an environment that is collaborative and exciting. By […]
Podcast – great resource for Founders Parade post
Hey folks (and future 522 students), I know David mentioned the Gimlet podcast Startup earlier in the course. I have been listening to How I Built This from NPR recently, and I keep thinking how useful this would have been when I was doing my Founders Parade posting. If you haven’t heard of it before, each […]
Determining Valuation
Hey everyone. While I was working on my venture pitch, I came across this very useful infographic on how start ups determine their valuation for raising capital. Though you might find it interesting or useful! Josh
Badges?
I’m wondering if anyone else is having problems receiving Badges. I’ve met the qualifications (as outlined on https://virtual.educ.ubc.ca/wp/etec522/primer/about-badges/my-badges/) for several badges, but have not (yet?) been awarded some of them. We have gone to great lengths to create badges for this week’s VR/AR EMT and were hoping that the badges would work, but they don’t […]
update: Posting issue in Emerging Markets — Proximity-based learning thread
By Cassy Weber on January 7, 2018
I cannot get my ‘comments post’ in Proximity-Based Learning to register in the comments column– i.e. does not show on the main Emerging Technologies page as having a comment. I’ve posted the same comments here twice, still nothing (see https://virtual.educ.ubc.ca/wp/etec522/2017/12/25/proximity-based-learning-2/). Yet my two other comments posts — one in RWL and one in Personalised Learning are […]
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