creating original material that exploits the unique characteristics of video is time-consuming, and still relatively expensive, because it usually needs professional video production
No worries, the TikTok generation will be teaching within the next 5 years.
the availability of free material for educational use is improving all the time
this answers the previous comment: as more and more teachers produce and share video content, finding the right content will become easier (if they can be identified and found easily)
many instructors and teachers have no knowledge or experience in using video other than for recording lecturing
and how are they expected to get the training they need?
attention must be paid to ensuring opportunities for student practice and feedback
ok, but this is true of any media.
In such contexts, composed textual responses, such as essays or written reports, are likely to be necessary, rather than multiple-choice questions or multimedia reports.
until chatGPT
Having the whole book gives readers more freedom to interpret and add their own conclusions than just having a summary chapter
same would happen with a photocopy of the final chapter of the book. This phenomenon is not limited to ICTs.
The move towards more interactive communications media and away from broadcast media then has profound implications for education (as for society at large).
couldn't agree more.
cMOOC
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students can interrupt the lecture to ask questions which can lead to a more narrow, targeted discussion
something all professors enjoy!
in-person lectures or seminars were considered the gold standard
for no good reason other than "this is how we do things around here".
taking part in the events described.
ok, but a) that is probably good in many cases (such as history pieces) and b) you can convey stuff that a live event can't.
The key educational significance of recorded media is that a student can access the same learning material an unlimited number of times, and at times that are convenient for the learner.
and that you can edit it A LOT. You can insert disparate contents and enrich it incredibly, like no live event can (watch a Marvel movie if you don't believe me).
learning styles
i thought that learning styles had been thrown out of academia rather vigorously?
When I started analyzing the questionnaires, I was struck particularly by the ‘open-ended’ comments in response to the television and radio broadcasts. Responses to the printed components tended to be ‘cool’: rational, calm, critical, constructive. The responses to the broadcasts were the opposite: ‘hot’, emotional, strongly supportive or strongly critical or even hostile, and rarely critically constructive.
interesting
who is in charge of using technology for teaching? Who makes the decisions about the design of a MOOC or the use of an animation?
An important question. I'm looking at you Coursera and EdX.
In particular we need to know how best to design and apply media (rather than technology) to facilitate learning.
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They just sit there until commanded to do something or until they are activated or until a person starts to interact with the technology, or until a teacher and students fill the room.
not so sure that is true. There's at least some pressure to "do something" with these things. You don't get the same results if you put guns in the room than if you put cooking instruments and ingredients.
whiteboards, pencils, chalk, computers, software programs such as a learning management system, or a transmission or communications network, are all technologies.
oh, ok, good. We agree, then.
Social media are strongly associated with young people and ‘millenials’ – in other words, many of the students in post-secondary education.
Not sure that's true.
mobile devices such as phones and tablets
why include hardware here?
George Siemens, Stephen Downes and Dave Cormier in Canada were using web technology to create the first ‘connectivist’ Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
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Despite large investments of research in AI for teaching over the last 30 years, the results generally have been disappointing.
the 2025 edition might need significant rewriting on this.
Lecture capture on the other hand required no changes to the standard lecture model
which is not a good thing...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) started making its recorded lectures available to the public, free of charge, via its OpenCourseWare project, in 2002. YouTube started in 2005 and was bought by Google in 2006. YouTube is increasingly being used for short educational clips that can be downloaded and integrated into online courses. The Khan Academy started using YouTube in 2006 for recorded voice-over lectures using a digital blackboard for equations and illustrations.
I love how this is now "History".
triumph of reason and science over superstition and beliefs
i would rather present that stage as 'the triggering of a revolution in scientific knowledge generation'
has a long history
Not that i'm a fan, but Sumer / Mesopotamia deserves a mention somewhere.
The earliest generally accepted examples of Chinese writing
My personal favorite example of earliest edtech is Cuneiform clay tablets such as https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/321878 or https://worldhistorycommons.org/sumerian-school-days
oral
I would argue that oral exchanges as education would the only "non-technology".
context and values and beliefs
i appreciate making room for "contexts"
Yet learning is also a fundamental human activity that can function quite well (some would say better) without any technological intervention
Looks like we're starting with the idea that pen and paper, and blackboards and chalk are not "technologies". :/
a laggard in technology adoption
Yes!
there is likely to be a single, ‘natural’ position on each dimension, subject to good design, in terms of exploiting the educational affordances of the medium
interesting proposition. I wonder if this is because of limitations of the medium or because "this is the way things should be".
Technologies are merely tools that can be used in a variety of ways. What matters more is how technologies are applied.
It seems as though we're skipping the conversation around the issues with "technology is neutral" narrative.
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Is taking a picture of a sculpture a derivative work?
making knowledge more accessible; sharing stories; inspiring others; connecting audiences; preserving knowledge for future generations; disseminating information and cultur
and are PUBLICLY funded. They belong to the public as a whole.
Caring for and preserving this memory and heritage is a formidable task
For example, you might be responsible for a large collection of documents and materials that are not available anywhere else... and one day this could just burn up.
And while some people want to reserve all of their rights, many want to share their work with the public more freely.
This is especially true of people that have been engaged with the internet: they can easily see the benefit of what they've found "online", and the re-sharing that goes on.
Copyright is automatic, whether you want it or not.
Not everybody realizes this.
Persuading large land owners to give up some of their holding to landless peasants; Persuading small land owners to give up their individual ownership for common cooperative ownership by the villages; Encouraging farmers and villagers to spin and weave the cloth for their own clothes during their spare time from their agricultural pursuits.
The issue there is where to find a powerful enough motivator in their consciousness to change what's been handed down for generations.
virtual community
Virtual community, the future of higher education (and maybe more than just higher?)
engaging content and interactive team building activities
wonder if my HR professional would be interested?
People will say [education is] brainwashing
there was this song...
Saying brightly vague things (aka bullshitting) in a traditional “term paper” format just won’t cut it when one is responsible for making a reliable, verifiable public contribution to the world’s knowledge.
the power of the "real audience".
The belief that humans are essentially active, free and strive for meaning in personal terms
sounds obvious when you say it like that.
Some people will insist that technology is neutral — “it’s just a tool,” they’ll say. “What matters is how you use it.” But a technology always has a history, and it has a politics. A technology likely has a pedagogical bent as well — how it trains people to use it, if nothing else — and even if one tries to use a tool for a radically different task than it was built for, there are always remnants of those political and historical and pedagogical designs. Technologies are never “just tools.” They are, to borrow from the physicist Ursula Franklin, practices. Technologies are systems. Technology “entails far more than its individual material components,” Franklin wrote in The Real World of Technology. “Technology involves organizations, procedures, symbols, new words, equations, and, most of all, a mindset.”
Nice!
openness means allowing access to all or a significant portion of a course without registration.
a challenging notion: If collaboration is better established within a group that has a clear membrane, this tenet propose a new definition for the membrane: "being interested in the topic" instead of "belonging to this (physical) classroom"
Online Learning: a Manifesto
no hyperlink?