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  1. Jan 2023
  2. Nov 2022
  3. May 2022
  4. Mar 2022
  5. Jul 2021
  6. Sep 2019
    1. digital literacies

      Kudos for using the plural — "literacies" — right off the bat, not only given the many literacies listed later (eg, data literacy, information literacy, visual literacy, media literacy, metaliteracy, etc), but also that there are multiple literacies even in a single category.

    2. Within the study of digital literacies per se, one potential pitfall is focusing too closely on narrow dimensions, such as gaining new digital skills, at the expense of ensuring that learners develop the lifelong capac-ity needed to distinguish digital literacy from simple digital proficiency.

      Amen! For example: proficiency in a specific software program (eg, MS Word) rather than broader literacies about how such software can be used generally (eg, word processing).

    3. Digital literacies include data literacy, information literacy, visual literacy, media literacy, and metaliter-acy, as well as related capacities for assessing social and ethical issues in our digital world.

      Some of the different kinds of digital literacies.

  7. Oct 2018
  8. Jan 2018
    1. competency-based education and new methods of assessment (from #5 to #16)

      Will CBL follow the pattern of MOOCs? Wait, what pattern did MOOCs follow? They are certainly not gone...

    2. See how the results of the latest ELI Key Issues in Teaching and Learning Survey stack up against responses from years past.

      Jump to an annotated version of ELI's 2018 Key issues in Teaching and Learning.

    1. Key Issues in Teaching and Learning

      Jump to Malcom Brown's post contextualizing ELI's 2018 Key issues in Teaching and Learning.

      2018 key issues include:

      1. Academic Transformation
      2. Accessibility and UDL
      3. Faculty Development
      4. Privacy and Security
      5. Digital and Information Literacies
      6. Integrated Planning and Advising Systems for Student
      7. Instructional Design
      8. Online and Blended Learning
      9. Evaluating Technology-based Instructional Innovations
      10. Open Education
      11. Learning Analytics
      12. Adaptive Teaching and Learning
      13. Working with Emerging Technology
      14. Learning Space Designs
      15. NGDLE and LMS Services
    1. Some students have been conditioned by experience in other online courses to expect to be able to read and study quietly by themselves for a few weeks, post a minimum number of discussion board posts in a single day, and complete an exam or writing assignment at the end of a unit or module. The chunky model, with its frequent required interaction, may disappoint students who want to be able to proceed more independently. For that reason, we encourage students to refl ect and comment on the process as we go along. We make design visible by asking students to engage and respond to the course content and design in real time. Inevitably, some students will express resistance, arguing that they enrolled in an online course specifi cally to be able to “work on my own schedule.” So it is important to take those concerns seriously and encourage students to express them. In a writing course, we argue that students can measurably benefi t from breaking major writing projects into a series of steps that can be completed in short units of time.

      This is precisely the course that I have built in the re-design project, abandoning the idea of read - discuss - write an essay every four weeks. The Eli timelines are the key to how chunking and frequent feedback works.

  9. Aug 2017
    1. In practice, applying the concept of chunked content in course design can work in many ways. For several years, we have been using backward design and creating course schedules in which writing activities were usually due on the same day each week. We discovered, perhaps predictably, that most students were logging on to post writing the day assignments were due. This created a rhythm where activity in the course community spiked one day each week, followed by a period of quiet in between. In our recent courses, we have moved to design schedules where short, work-in-progress tasks are due two or three times per week. While the total net amount of writing students do has not changed, breaking the writing into two or three mini-activities has helped to create a more constant fl ow of activity and discourse in and around the course environment.

      Working with Eli Review gives me greater control over these smaller bits of segmented in process assignments that eliminates the night-before-its-due mentality.

  10. Jul 2017
    1. Start with the problem.

      My problem was how to deal with time intensive peer review in a limited time frame hybrid course.

    2. “we do see patterns in the literature about what types of technologies and approaches are most likely to have positive effects,” she said. In general, they are tools that: increase the flexibility of what happens in the classroom, rather than overly scripting it; give students lots of opportunity to explore; and engage students in active problem solving.
      1. Typically start reviews in class, but not give enough time to complete so students can work outside of class. Use other aspects of class time for research and sentence level work. Students work on their own research topics.
    3. “If you just use a new digital learning technology without changing anything else, chances are you’re not going to have a significant impact” on learning

      With Eli Review I have altered the technology by changing how I structure peer learning and I've altered what material I teach by changing the pace of the course to one that emphasizes short, focused bursts of writing.

    4. But their other key takeaway was that the use of technology itself appears not to be primarily responsible for the improved outcomes. Rather, the accumulated studies they shared found that the biggest effects came when the instructors changed what material they taught and how they taught it.

      What do I teach and how do I teach it.<br> Content vs platform