By Brian Murphy Clinton - EvoLLLution. Students today expect a customer-centric experience that is highly personalized and relevant. They also expect their institutions to provide them a great deal of convenience when it comes to performing tasks and obtaining critical information. More...
By Eric Miller - EvoLLLution. Today, both students and staff have heighted expectations of institutional IT. Students expect the service and convenience they experience in their other online interactions—with retailers and other service providers—to be replicated by their college or university. More...
By Suzanne Bowness. As a student in her second year of a two-year accelerated massage therapy program at Lambton College in Sarnia, Ont., Lynette Hyatt’s main work tools are her hands, her practical knowledge of anatomy – and increasingly, her iPad. Read more...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Personal Learning in Virtual Environments
Stephen Downes, Nov 13, 2015, VI Jornadas pedagógicas en tecnología e innovación educativa, Guayaquil, Ecuador
Presentation in English, with translation in Spanish. In this presentation I discuss the foundation of MOOCs in an approach based in experiential learning, as opposed to more traditional content-based learning. More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. IMS Caliper published – we now have a clearer picture how activity streams should be described
Tore Hoel, Learning Analytics Community Exchange (LACE), 2015/11/09
Discussion of the recently published IMS Caliper specification. Caliper describes the method to encode and transfer clickstream data - that is, a recording of each action taken by a user (click of a mouse, press of a keyboard). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The user as network
Karen E.C. Levy, First Monday, 2015/11/06
Karen Levy argues for "conceptualizing users as networks: as constellations of power relations and institutional entanglements, mediated through technologies." She argues that a model regarding people merely as users or non-users is too simplistic (I have to agree). More...
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Nearly all children under 4 have used mobile devices, U.S. study suggests
CBC News, 2015/11/02
The study (9 Page PDF, press release) was actually limited to a low-income area of Philadelphia, so the sweeping conclusion in the headline should not be drawn. More...
By . I received this ‘gift’ from the Inholland Research Group Teaching and Learning with Technology. They took my ‘full’ CV (over 60 pages) and ran it through Wordle and produced this word cloud (appropriately in the shape of a plane, as I have a private pilot’s license). More...
By Phil Hill. Mike Caulfield responded to my post on data usage to understand college textbook expenditures. The core of my argument is a critique of commonly cited College Board data. That data originating from financial aid offices leads to the conclusion that students on average either spend or budget $1,200 per year with that number rising, while there is more reliable data originating from students showing the number to be half that amount and dropping. More...
By Inge Ignatia de Waard. This is the first of my set of #DigiWriMo posts. A bit on why we replicate what exists. And whether we are curious to understand how things work, or whether we just want to be the creator/s?
Technology reinventing nature
Technology does something to humans, multiple things, but most of all we seem to use technology to enlarge what already exists. Read more...
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