- Oct 2024
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books.openbookpublishers.com books.openbookpublishers.com
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While the four approaches in media literacy (cf. above) are effective in what they do, there are several concepts from other fields of study that can help create a more robust approach.
I think it goes without saying that always learning and being an active learner, especially when it comes to media literacy, is the best bet when educating yourself.
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- Jan 2024
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link.springer.com link.springer.com
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Assumptions about adult learners
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definition of ad
Definition of Adult Learner
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- Mar 2023
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Demonstrate the importance of learning and development by providing time,support, and resources for employees and hiring managers to participate inlearning and development activities.
Example of a government agency provide time, support, and resources to interns, fellows, and apprentices to participate in learning and development activities.
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- Aug 2022
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www.edsurge.com www.edsurge.com
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To be clear, I don’t see John’s progress as a reflection of my teaching. He discovered how to use speech-to-text tools to help him write. He showed up and worked hard every day in our virtual classroom. He took initiative and persevered— all skills I didn’t teach him.
Useful reminder, connected to our goals and roles, as learning pros. Some of us celebrate when people empower themselves through learning. Yet, some people have issues with the fact that there hasn't been an intervention.
My little quip:
People learn despite teachers.
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- May 2022
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www.wnyc.org www.wnyc.org
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movement.
movement means "A group of people with the same beliefs who work together to achieve something."
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Immigrant
Immigrant means "Someone who comes to live in a different country."
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subsidize
subsidize means "We have a subsidized restaurant at work."
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- Apr 2022
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gobookmart.com gobookmart.com
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As we all experience the world differently, the way of learning each of us is diverse. Comprehending how we learn things would help the teachers to understand their students and they don’t have to see any students lagging. Every kid doesn’t come first in the class. It is not because they have a smaller brain size. It is because their brain would acknowledge a different procedure of learning. In this article we are going to discuss the 4 types of learning styles so that you can understand – what type of learner are you?
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- Feb 2022
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www.sciencedirect.com www.sciencedirect.com
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learner profiling
unsupervised machine learning technique
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- Jan 2022
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eductive.ca eductive.ca
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Une énorme charge de travail pour les étudiants n’est pas un indicateur de rigueur.
Given learners' current levels of anxiety, Quebec's Action Plan on Higher Education Mental Health could become quite significant. Wonder who's currently finding solutions to these issues. Workload is controversial enough a topic that a "Design Thinking" #SolutionMode might be even more fitting than assessments of what counts as a heavy burden.
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baisser les attentes
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- Sep 2021
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psyarxiv.com psyarxiv.com
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Motz, B., Fyfe, E., & Guba, T. P. (2021). Learning to Call Bullsh*t via Induction: Categorization Training Improves Critical Thinking Performance. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/65qfj
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www.thetechedvocate.org www.thetechedvocate.org
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technological know-how to use devices and applications
Should we consider (or do we already have) tutorials on basics of online learning (e.g. how to access Canvas)?
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the online classroom might be challenging for some to grapple with
During the OTL Advisory Board meeting, I'm hoping to pull out some of the areas/ideas that faculty are seeing challenges in. I'm sure we will hear about proctoring and academic integrity. However, this is a small percentage of our learner population. I'm also curious what areas you are seeing as ITSs, IDs, or multimedia team members.
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docs.google.com docs.google.com
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saxophone
a metal musical instrument that you play by blowing into it and pressing keys to produce different notes
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dotted
a small, round mark or spot:
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snapped
If something long and thin snaps, it breaks making a short, loud sound, and if you snap it, you break it, making a short, loud sound:
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confidence
a feeling of being certain of your ability to do things well:
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to move around and around quickly, or to make something do this:
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- Aug 2021
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www.edsurge.com www.edsurge.com
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“They have to decide whether to eat or pay for the book, whether to pay rent or pay for the book. It’s a one-time cost, but it has multiple implications of students sacrificing utilities, for example, and then putting their housing at risk.”
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- Feb 2021
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www.olivertacke.de www.olivertacke.de
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Educational Data Mining (EDM) and Learning Analytics (LA) are among the top buzzwords of the EdTech scene right now.
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www.education.gouv.qc.ca www.education.gouv.qc.ca
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expérience étudiante
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- Oct 2020
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elearningindustry.com elearningindustry.com
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How To Make Online Corporate Learning Fun During Lockdown
(Available in text or audio.) This article provides basic principles (agenda, duration) and technologies (gamification, discussion boards) and activities to keep employees engaged in online learning. While this provides strategy, it does not provide implementation guidance within the corporate environment. (2/10)
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- Sep 2020
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www.researchgate.net www.researchgate.net
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Project Syllabus: An Exploratory Study of Learner-Centered Syllabi
The target audience is teachers in psychology and similar social sciences. The authors encouraged using the learner-centered model of instruction and conveying this information in the syllabus. The principles discussed in the text may not generalize to the traditional course structure and content found in other disciplines. The author moves from theoretical characteristics of learner-centered education to the applications in conveying this information in course syllabi. Each syllabus was assessed wtih a modified rubric from an established measure. The structure is organized by the three research questions.
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Discussion
The syllabi from Project Syllabi were disproportionally learner-centered. There may be selection bias for the inclusion of teacher-centered syllabi in the Project Syllabus repositiory. The learning objectives have likely changed from 1999 to present. Longer syllabi are associated with learner-centered design, though it may be the tone and discussion of the course content in the syllabus that makes the course appear to be learner-centered.
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Since Chickering and Gam-son’s (1987) first description of learner-centered teaching prac-tices, researchers have attempted to measure and assess theimpact of such teaching strategies (e.g., Richmond, Slattery,et al., 2016).
The theoretical explanation for learner-centered teaching practices should guide the measurement and assessment of these teaching methods; see Habanek (2005), DiClementi and Handelsman (2005), and Saville, Zinn, Brown, and Marchuk (2010).
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Chickering and Gamson (1987), forexample, suggested seven principles were central to suchteaching: encouraging faculty/student contact, developing reci-procity and cooperation among students, using active learningstrategies, offering rapid feedback, emphasizing time on task,communicating high expectations, and respecting diversetalents and ways of learning.
Chickering and Gamson's seven principles were the foundation for learner-centered education (1987).
- Encouraging faculty/student contact
- Developing reciprocity and cooperation among students
- Using active learning strategies
- Offering rapid feedback
- Emphasizing time on task
- Communicating high expectations
- Respecting diverse talents and ways of learning
Habanek's (2005) descriptive study of learner-centered syllabus design.
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A learner-centered syllabus requires that you shift from what you,the instructor, are going to cover in your course to a concern forwhat information and tools you can provide for your students topromote learning and intellectual development. (p. xi)
A course syllabus is a mechanism for communication of expectations for tasks and student engagement in the course.
Definition of learner-centered syllabus. e.g., O’Brian, Millis, & Cohen,2008; Richmond, 2016). According to Diamond (1997)
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g learner-centered principles may increase students’ perceptions of theirinstructor on the characteristics of rapport, caring, helpfulness, willingness to seek help from the instructor, and studentmotivation. Typically, a learner-centered syllabus is one that presents a positive tone at the point of a student’s first contact with acourse and describes collaborative opportunities, repeated opportunities for formative assessment, and a sense of ownership ofthe learning experience. I
Summary of the literature in the role of the course syllabus in forming students' perceptions of their instructor. A course syllabus is an ambassador for the instructor.
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- Mar 2020
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www.learntechlib.org www.learntechlib.org
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Characteristics of Adult Learners With Implications for Online Learning Design
To view this article, click "Full text." This article first discusses characteristics of adult learners before addressing the ways in which online learning design should be influenced by the adult learning theories of andragogy, self-directed learning, experiential learning, and transformative learning. By comparing the characteristics of adult learners and the ways in which the theories do or do not address those theories, the author suggests ways in which the characteristics of an adult learner should be used to develop a more holistic approach to developing online learning environments. Although the author doesn't include practical application, it is one of the few articles that expresses a need to combine multiple theories into one design approach. Ranking: 6/10
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books.google.com books.google.com
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Handbook of Adult and Continuing Education
Although only a preview of this textbook is available for free, the amount of historical research included is incredible. The chapters cover a diverse range of topics that are still being discussed today and demonstrate the ideological underpinnings of many modern issues. Published in 2000, the conversation about technology integration in adult learning has moved far beyond the scope of this book, but it could certainly serve as an underpinning of many of the issues that are still being discussed and developed upon today. Ranking: 5/10
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www.learntechlib.org www.learntechlib.org
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Integrating Technology into the Classroom: Eight Keys to Success
To view this article, click "Full text." This article focuses on the author's perspective of the primary concern in technology integration in educational environments - the instructor. The authors discuss the eight barriers that teachers create when trying to integrate technology: fear of change, training, personal use, teaching models, learning theories, educational climate, motivation, and support. Although the advice is practical, it is extremely rudimentary, created eighteen years ago, and does not address the more modern concerns of integration of technology in adult educational environments. Ranking: 3/10
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www.learntechlib.org www.learntechlib.org
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A Paradigm Shift: Technology Integration for Higher Education in the New Millennium
To view this article, click "full text." The article discusses a paradigm shift for educational technology at a time when distance learning first started growing across the United States. Initially, institutions of higher learning were driven by technology integration standard mandates as well as competition from other institutions, but eventually the shift normalized with federal funding. The author discusses barriers to technology adaptation, focused on teacher training, before describing characteristics of the distance learner and distance teacher. Although the article may have been relevant for its time, twenty years later it serves more as a grounding article for when educational technology first began to take rise, the considerations and limitations that were addressed, and the way that technology integration in classrooms has still not realized the potential envisioned by its early adopters. Rating: 4/10
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journals.uair.arizona.edu journals.uair.arizona.edu
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Technology and Adult Students In Higher Education: A Review of the Literature
This article seeks to synthesize an undefined number of scholarly articles related to the integration of technology in higher educational settings in order to present gaps that need additional research. The recommendations are for instructors to move beyond a course that focuses on content and to create a balanced approach that also includes consideration of technology and pedagogical theories. Although the article lists an extremely generic opportunity for continued research, it lacks any specific recommendations for what they found lacking in their literature review and does not adequately move the conversation forward. Ranking: 3/10
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nevadasadulteducationcommunity.wdfiles.com nevadasadulteducationcommunity.wdfiles.comPart 41
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37Integrating Technologyinto Adult Learning
This article discusses four approaches to integrating technology into adult learning environments, including curriculum, delivery mechanism, instructional complement, and instructional tool. The author briefly describes each approach and lists both the benefits and limitations of those approaches, concluding that using technology as an instructional tool may have the greatest ability to reach the widest audience of adult learners with varying technological skill. Although the end result is tied to a constructivist approach, the author does little to extend the theories discussed into practical application for educators. Ranking: 5/10
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worlded.org worlded.org
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ntegrating Technology in Learning
This website offers a host of resources for youth and adult educators who are looking for new ways to incorporate technology into their educational environment. The website stores featured projects that support technology integration, resources that educators can use to inform their own practice, and short articles on a variety of topics for youth and adult learners as well as professional development programs. Ranking: 7/10
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- Nov 2019
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humanservices.ucdavis.edu humanservices.ucdavis.edu
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The Northwest Center of Public Health Practice's toolkit title "Effective Adult Learning: A toolkit for teaching adults," is . a highly comprehensive resource for instructional design for adult learning instructors. Sections include course or training design, objectives of adult learning, various tools to help in the process of course design, and brief overviews of adult learning methods and theory. The embedded section review charts make it easier for quick references. Rating: 10/10
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- Mar 2019
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utah.instructure.com utah.instructure.com
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Adult Learning Theory
This article by the University of Utah discusses Lindeman's and Knowles's theories on adult learning. Andragogy uses the teacher differently from pedagogy: the teacher in an adult learning environment becomes a facilitator instead of the knower. I think this is an important distinction to make for people who go from teaching children to teaching adults. There are two of these people on my team at work. One taught third grade and one taught sixth grade, and both of them tend to try to put the instructor in the knower's position instead of the facilitator's position. They have to catch themselves often and rework some instruction to be more student-focused instead of content-focused. 8/10
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criticaldigitalpedagogy.pressbooks.com criticaldigitalpedagogy.pressbooks.com
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when we put our tools down and stand back from the furnace, the letter press, or the paper mill, what will we turn to build instead?
A retired scientific glassblower, after 40 years "in front of the furnace" my job disappeared. Running away to join the circus and spending my golden years making glass unicorns "on the Midway" was one option, Returning to college to "update my skills" was the worst decision of my life. Barely surviving "higher education" as an adult student, I now have two associate's degrees and am the first person in Metropolitan State University's College of Individualized Studies authorized to complete my bachelor's degree by documenting my prior learning on my own domain. I'm not convinced the institution is capable of assessing digital objects for credit, but there will always be a market for glass unicorns.
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“Bartleby, the Scrivener,” Herman Melville
Ms. Massicot assigned this novella in her English class my junior year in high school. Fifty years later, Bartleby still informs my decision making everyday. Especially when responding to academics and educational institutions.
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kathleenmcclaskey.com kathleenmcclaskey.com
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stages of personalized learning: infographic This is here because it shows the progression of personalized learning from teacher centered to learner center to learner driven. It has other links to learn more about personalized learning. Usability for the article is adequate but less than ideal for the infographic (which nonetheless has useful information).
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- Nov 2018
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digitalcommons.macalester.edu digitalcommons.macalester.edu
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1Engaging Adults Learners with Technology
The pdf provides information from The Twin Cities Campus Library with instruction incorporating technology into teaching adult students.
It includes a review of instructional technology, assessment for learning, framework for teaching adult learners and a workshop. This 14 page pdf provides the essentials necessary in understanding basic learning needs of adult learners.
RATING: 3/5 (rating based upon a score system 1 to 5, 1= lowest 5=highest in terms of content, veracity, easiness of use etc.)
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www.emeraldinsight.com www.emeraldinsight.com
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This article focuses on creating online tutorials for adult learners. Andragogy theory is used to build online programs for adult learners that are learner centered and engaging.
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- Nov 2017
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www.educause.edu www.educause.edu
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Although we're currently nowhere near this idea, how can businesses, educational institutions, and governments alike not consider the importance of giving individuals control over their digital archives? Or their learning analytics data?17
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mandate the use of "learning management systems."
Therein lies the rub. Mandated systems are a radically different thing from “systems which are available for use”. This quote from the aforelinked IHE piece is quite telling:
“I want somebody to fight!” Crouch said. “These things are not cheap -- 300 grand or something like that? ... I want people to want it! When you’re trying to buy something, you want them to work at it!”
In the end, it’s about “procurement”, which is quite different from “adoption” which is itself quite different from “appropriation”.
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mfeldstein.com mfeldstein.com
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“privileges” — that’s an important word, because it doesn’t simply imply what you can and cannot do with the software. It’s a nod to political power, social power as well.
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Let's imagine a world in which universities, not vendors, designed and built our online learning environments.
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The teacher should decide.
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the tools shouldn’t dictate the choice
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halfanhour.blogspot.com halfanhour.blogspot.com
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On this model, students are responsible for their own education, often forming communities or societies to collaborate. Professors typically worked one-on-one with students, but from time to time would be enlisted to offer a series - or 'course' - of lectures on a given topic. The lectures could be (and often were) public, and were frequently attended by other professors in the same field.
Reminds me of @KevinCarey1 describe the original university of Bologna, in his End of College. Don’t have the quote handy (one of many cases where #OpenAccess would allow for more thoughtful discussion), but the gist of that paragraph sounds similar to what @Downes is describing here
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www.tryxapi.com www.tryxapi.com
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privacy concerns
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www.learningsolutionsmag.com www.learningsolutionsmag.com
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creates a highly personalized experience for the children while simultaneously alleviating privacy concerns.
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courses.openulmus.org courses.openulmus.org
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One student in Canada decided to ask his university for the data they collected about his interactions with educational material
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compare where their engagement levels stand against the rest of the class.
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self-regulating effect
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courses.openulmus.org courses.openulmus.org
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If you used our Physical web beacon today to login, you were generating xAPI statements.
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wrapping.marthaburtis.net wrapping.marthaburtis.net
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If we want Domain of One’s Own to flourish as a space for student agency than we need to balance structured guidance with playfulness and empowerment.
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how to balance supporting a system as complex as Domain of One’s Own without dictating how people use it
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realize that the web was not something that happened to them but they were happening to
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An overarching value we try to embrace when we talk about the domain choice is one of agency: participants should be able determine for themselves how they wish to be known and found on the Web.
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give a student an individually-controlled space for reflection and growth
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Oh, and some people also thought that perhaps it would benefit a student to have an online presence that they could create, develop, and take with them when they graduated from UMW.
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The other reason I worry about our dependence on WordPress is that we run the risk of recreating the very dynamic that Domain of One’s Own seeks to challenge
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files.eric.ed.gov files.eric.ed.gov
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Mount St. Mary’s use of predictive analytics to encourage at-risk students to drop out to elevate the retention rate reveals how analytics can be abused without student knowledge and consent
Wow. Not that we need such an extreme case to shed light on the perverse incentives at stake in Learning Analytics, but this surely made readers react. On the other hand, there’s a lot more to be said about retention policies. People often act as though they were essential to learning. Retention is important to the institution but are we treating drop-outs as escapees? One learner in my class (whose major is criminology) was describing the similarities between schools and prisons. It can be hard to dissipate this notion when leaving an institution is perceived as a big failure of that institution. (Plus, Learning Analytics can really feel like the Panopticon.) Some comments about drop-outs make it sound like they got no learning done. Meanwhile, some entrepreneurs are encouraging students to leave institutions or to not enroll in the first place. Going back to that important question by @sarahfr: why do people go to university?
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At the very least, the tool should allow for robust formative assessment, and should be capable of giving timely, helpful feedback to learners.
The “at the very least” part makes it sound as though this were the easy part.
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halfanhour.blogspot.com halfanhour.blogspot.com
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created by people working together on their own.
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And I see no good reason why we should require the production of educators and students to be fair game for resellers who want to pluck it for free out of the commons and charge money for it to those not lucky enough to be a part of our community.
To many a student, the notion that somebody else could profit from their “free labour” is particularly offputting. Including (or especially) those who prepare to become the heads of commercial entities.
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- Oct 2017
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solaresearch.org solaresearch.org
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The learning analytics and education data mining discussed in this handbook hold great promise. At the same time, they raise important concerns about security, privacy, and the broader consequences of big data-driven education. This chapter describes the regulatory framework governing student data, its neglect of learning analytics and educational data mining, and proactive approaches to privacy. It is less about conveying specific rules and more about relevant concerns and solutions. Traditional student privacy law focuses on ensuring that parents or schools approve disclosure of student information. They are designed, however, to apply to paper “education records,” not “student data.” As a result, they no longer provide meaningful oversight. The primary federal student privacy statute does not even impose direct consequences for noncompliance or cover “learner” data collected directly from students. Newer privacy protections are uncoordinated, often prohibiting specific practices to disastrous effect or trying to limit “commercial” use. These also neglect the nuanced ethical issues that exist even when big data serves educational purposes. I propose a proactive approach that goes beyond mere compliance and includes explicitly considering broader consequences and ethics, putting explicit review protocols in place, providing meaningful transparency, and ensuring algorithmic accountability. Export Citation: Plain Text (APA
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- Sep 2017
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edutechnica.com edutechnica.com
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Over the course of many years, every school has refined and perfected the connections LMSs have into a wide variety of other campus systems including authentication systems, identity management systems, student information systems, assessment-related learning tools, library systems, digital textbook systems, and other content repositories. APIs and standards have decreased the complexity of supporting these connections, and over time it has become easier and more common to connect LMSs to – in some cases – several dozen or more other systems. This level of integration gives LMSs much more utility than they have out of the box – and also more “stickiness” that causes them to become harder to move away from. For LMS alternatives, achieving this same level of connectedness, particularly considering how brittle these connections can sometimes become over time, is a very difficult thing to achieve.
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edutechnica.com edutechnica.com
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privacy controls over student data,
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- Aug 2017
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analytics.jiscinvolve.org analytics.jiscinvolve.org
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This has much in common with a customer relationship management system and facilitates the workflow around interventions as well as various visualisations. It’s unclear how the at risk metric is calculated but a more sophisticated predictive analytics engine might help in this regard.
Have yet to notice much discussion of the relationships between SIS (Student Information Systems), CRM (Customer Relationship Management), ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), and LMS (Learning Management Systems).
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- Oct 2016
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www.businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com
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Outside of the classroom, universities can use connected devices to monitor their students, staff, and resources and equipment at a reduced operating cost, which saves everyone money.
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Devices connected to the cloud allow professors to gather data on their students and then determine which ones need the most individual attention and care.
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www.google.com www.google.com
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For G Suite users in primary/secondary (K-12) schools, Google does not use any user personal information (or any information associated with a Google Account) to target ads.
In other words, Google does use everyone’s information (Data as New Oil) and can use such things to target ads in Higher Education.
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- Sep 2016
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www.sr.ithaka.org www.sr.ithaka.org
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Application Modern higher education institutions have unprecedentedly large and detailed collections of data about their students, and are growing increasingly sophisticated in their ability to merge datasets from diverse sources. As a result, institutions have great opportunities to analyze and intervene on student performance and student learning. While there are many potential applications of student data analysis in the institutional context, we focus here on four approaches that cover a broad range of the most common activities: data-based enrollment management, admissions, and financial aid decisions; analytics to inform broad-based program or policy changes related to retention; early-alert systems focused on successful degree completion; and adaptive courseware.
Perhaps even more than other sections, this one recalls the trope:
The difference probably comes from the impact of (institutional) “application”.
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the risk of re-identification increases by virtue of having more data points on students from multiple contexts
Very important to keep in mind. Not only do we realise that re-identification is a risk, but this risk is exacerbated by the increase in “triangulation”. Hence some discussions about Differential Privacy.
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Responsible Use
Again, this is probably a more felicitous wording than “privacy protection”. Sure, it takes as a given that some use of data is desirable. And the preceding section makes it sound like Learning Analytics advocates mostly need ammun… arguments to push their agenda. Still, the notion that we want to advocate for responsible use is more likely to find common ground than this notion that there’s a “data faucet” that should be switched on or off depending on certain stakeholders’ needs. After all, there exists a set of data use practices which are either uncontroversial or, at least, accepted as “par for the course” (no pun intended). For instance, we probably all assume that a registrar should receive the grade data needed to grant degrees and we understand that such data would come from other sources (say, a learning management system or a student information system).
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Data sharing over open-source platforms can create ambiguous rules about data ownership and publication authorship, or raise concerns about data misuse by others, thus discouraging liberal sharing of data.
Surprising mention of “open-source platforms”, here. Doesn’t sound like these issues are absent from proprietary platforms. Maybe they mean non-institutional platforms (say, social media), where these issues are really pressing. But the wording is quite strange if that is the case.
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captures values such as transparency and student autonomy
Indeed. “Privacy” makes it sound like a single factor, hiding the complexity of the matter and the importance of learners’ agency.
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Activities such as time spent on task and discussion board interactions are at the forefront of research.
Really? These aren’t uncontroversial, to say the least. For instance, discussion board interactions often call for careful, mixed-method work with an eye to preventing instructor effect and confirmation bias. “Time on task” is almost a codeword for distinctions between models of learning. Research in cognitive science gives very nuanced value to “time spent on task” while the Malcolm Gladwells of the world usurp some research results. A major insight behind Competency-Based Education is that it can allow for some variance in terms of “time on task”. So it’s kind of surprising that this summary puts those two things to the fore.
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Research: Student data are used to conduct empirical studies designed primarily to advance knowledge in the field, though with the potential to influence institutional practices and interventions. Application: Student data are used to inform changes in institutional practices, programs, or policies, in order to improve student learning and support. Representation: Student data are used to report on the educational experiences and achievements of students to internal and external audiences, in ways that are more extensive and nuanced than the traditional transcript.
Ha! The Chronicle’s summary framed these categories somewhat differently. Interesting. To me, the “application” part is really about student retention. But maybe that’s a bit of a cynical reading, based on an over-emphasis in the Learning Analytics sphere towards teleological, linear, and insular models of learning. Then, the “representation” part sounds closer to UDL than to learner-driven microcredentials. Both approaches are really interesting and chances are that the report brings them together. Finally, the Chronicle made it sound as though the research implied here were less directed. The mention that it has “the potential to influence institutional practices and interventions” may be strategic, as applied research meant to influence “decision-makers” is more likely to sway them than the type of exploratory research we so badly need.
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it’s productive to not only think of schools and colleges as sites of learning, but also as marketplaces where goods, knowledge, and services are consumed and produced
Agreed that it’s productive. But isn’t it also about framing (formal/institutional) education in purely economic terms? Useful to think about goods and services which have exchange value. May be a bit too easy to slip into the implicit idea that a learner is among the system’s key products.
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frame the purposes and value of education in purely economic terms
Sign of the times? One part is about economics as the discipline of decision-making. Economists often claim that their work is about any risk/benefit analysis and isn’t purely about money. But the whole thing is still about “resources” or “exchange value”, in one way or another. So, it could be undue influence from this way of thinking. A second part is that, as this piece made clear at the onset, “education is big business”. In some ways, “education” is mostly a term for a sector or market. Schooling, Higher Education, Teaching, and Learning are all related. Corporate training may not belong to the same sector even though many of the aforementioned EdTech players bet big on this. So there’s a logic to focus on the money involved in “education”. Has little to do with learning experiences, but it’s an entrenched system.
Finally, there’s something about efficiency, regardless of effectiveness. It’s somewhat related to economics, but it’s often at a much shallower level. The kind of “your tax dollars at work” thinking which is so common in the United States. “It’s the economy, silly!”
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often private companies whose technologies power the systems universities use for predictive analytics and adaptive courseware
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the use of data in scholarly research about student learning; the use of data in systems like the admissions process or predictive-analytics programs that colleges use to spot students who should be referred to an academic counselor; and the ways colleges should treat nontraditional transcript data, alternative credentials, and other forms of documentation about students’ activities, such as badges, that recognize them for nonacademic skills.
Useful breakdown. Research, predictive models, and recognition are quite distinct from one another and the approaches to data that they imply are quite different. In a way, the “personalized learning” model at the core of the second topic is close to the Big Data attitude (collect all the things and sense will come through eventually) with corresponding ethical problems. Through projects vary greatly, research has a much more solid base in both ethics and epistemology than the kind of Big Data approach used by technocentric outlets. The part about recognition, though, opens the most interesting door. Microcredentials and badges are a part of a broader picture. The data shared in those cases need not be so comprehensive and learners have a lot of agency in the matter. In fact, when then-Ashoka Charles Tsai interviewed Mozilla executive director Mark Surman about badges, the message was quite clear: badges are a way to rethink education as a learner-driven “create your own path” adventure. The contrast between the three models reveals a lot. From the abstract world of research, to the top-down models of Minority Report-style predictive educating, all the way to a form of heutagogy. Lots to chew on.
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“We need much more honesty, about what data is being collected and about the inferences that they’re going to make about people. We need to be able to ask the university ‘What do you think you know about me?’”
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hybridpedagogy.org hybridpedagogy.org
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what do we do with that information?
Interestingly enough, a lot of teachers either don’t know that such data might be available or perceive very little value in monitoring learners in such a way. But a lot of this can be negotiated with learners themselves.
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turn students and faculty into data points
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E-texts could record how much time is spent in textbook study. All such data could be accessed by the LMS or various other applications for use in analytics for faculty and students.”
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not as a way to monitor and regulate
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reduce students, to mere algorithms
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hackeducation.com hackeducation.com
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demanded by education policies — for more data
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data being collected about individuals for purposes unknown to these individuals
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It starts by rejecting the canard that a university education is just another commodity.
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There are outputs, such as graduates, increased social mobility and higher standards of living.
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Don't turn students into consumers – the US proves it's a recipe for disaster
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“In five to 10 years, most students will buy their postsecondary education differently from the way they buy it now,”
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Improve Admissions ROI
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which applicants are most likely to matriculate
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Data collection on students should be considered a joint venture, with all parties — students, parents, instructors, administrators — on the same page about how the information is being used.
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there is some disparity and implicit bias
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those who are learners will have more opportunities for growth and success than those who are learned.
Nice pun, giving another connotation to the term “learner”.
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the largest consumer of college graduates
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techcrunch.com techcrunch.com
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Researchers have tracked student emotions while using Crystal Island–a game-based learning environment– and used that research to predict how students will react in other learning situations
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thomascmurray.com thomascmurray.com
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3 Keys to Designing Learner-Centered Spaces
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Learners are engaged in solving real-world problems. Existing knowledge is activated as a foundation for new knowledge. New knowledge is demonstrated to the learner. New knowledge is applied by the learner. New knowledge is integrated into the learner’s world.
Not totally on board with this. Perhaps if "learner" role can be filled with student or instructor.
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teachonline.ca teachonline.ca
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inevitably, to academics working as part of a team
What makes this so unavoidable? And why do these teams need to be so structured?
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www.forbes.com www.forbes.com
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wring out every ounce of performance
Now think of it with a learner in mind.
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www.slideshare.net www.slideshare.net
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Meet the modern learner
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csreports.aspeninstitute.org csreports.aspeninstitute.org
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We do not want to leave the school system behind. We need to keep driving toward where we want everyone to be versus waiting until everyone is ready. The end goal will involve the Internet, and there needs to be a framework for it.
But we do want to leave it behind--the words we use--"school system" tell us exactly what is at the center--schools. What we learn are learn systems where learning is at the center which implies tacit-wise that the learner is at the center.
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