What’s the best online course you’ve ever taken? View all responses The best online courses I’ve experienced have one thing in common: they make you think, not just memorize information. As a Learning Technologist and cybersecurity professional, I’ve always believed learning should be practical, engaging, and applicable to everyday life. That philosophy led me toContinue reading “Cyber Situational Awareness”
Category Archives: The Learning Curve
Can Social Media Improve Learning in Higher Education?
Social media has changed how students communicate, locate information, and connect with one another. The more difficult question is whether those same platforms actually improve learning or simply create another source of distraction. Bharucha’s study of business students in India explored how social media was being used in higher education and whether it contributed toContinue reading “Can Social Media Improve Learning in Higher Education?”
Can Meta Build Augmented Reality People Will Trust?
Can a company built around collecting, analyzing, and monetizing user data genuinely develop augmented reality in a way that protects the people wearing the technology and everyone around them? I will state my thoughts directly: I am skeptical that Facebook, or Meta as the company now prefers to be known, will consistently adhere to itsContinue reading “Can Meta Build Augmented Reality People Will Trust?”
Assessment Strategy
Makokotlela, M. v. (2020). An e-portfolio as an assessment strategy in an open distance learning context. International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 16(4), 122–134. https://doi.org/10.4018/IJICTE.2020100109 Article 3 Title: An E-Portfolio as an Assessment Strategy in an Open Distance Learning Context Broad Topic: In this article, the author is interested in studying the useContinue reading “Assessment Strategy”
Fostering Communities of Inquiry
Cleary, Y. (2021). Fostering communities of inquiry and connectivism in online technical communication programs and courses. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication, 51(1), 11–30. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047281620977138 Article 2 Title: Fostering Communities of Inquiry and Connectivism in Online Technical Communication Programs and Courses Broad Topic: The author is interested in exploring Connectivism principles in two Technical andContinue reading “Fostering Communities of Inquiry”
Connected Teaching and Learning
Barnett, J., Mcpherson, V., & Sandieson, R. M. (2013). Connected teaching and learning: The uses and implications of connectivism in an online class. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 29(5), 685-698. Article 1 Title: Connected teaching and learning: The uses and implications of connectivism in an online class Broad Topic: The authors are exploring the useContinue reading “Connected Teaching and Learning”
Why Has Education Been So Slow to Digitally Transform?
Why has education struggled to achieve the kind of digital transformation seen in other industries, and what would it take for K-12 education to move forward in a more unified and sustainable way? After more than a decade working in higher education, I came to believe there were several reasons education had not experienced theContinue reading “Why Has Education Been So Slow to Digitally Transform?”
What Made AlphaGo’s Victory Different from Watson’s?
What was different about DeepMind’s AlphaGo defeating a world-class Go player and IBM Watson defeating champions on Jeopardy!? Both systems represented major advances in artificial intelligence, but they demonstrated different kinds of machine intelligence. AlphaGo was designed to make strategic decisions within a highly complex game, while Watson was designed to interpret language, search largeContinue reading “What Made AlphaGo’s Victory Different from Watson’s?”
Can Machine Learning Personalize Education Without Isolating the Learner?
“Personalized learning” seems to be having an identity crisis of sorts. One group defines it one way, while another group of educators, schools, and technology developers uses the term to describe something different. That lack of agreement appears to be one of the main problems surrounding personalized learning. We do not have a communal definitionContinue reading “Can Machine Learning Personalize Education Without Isolating the Learner?”
How Can Learning Analytics Better Support Community College Students?
What learning analytics would be most useful in a community college, and how could those data help students make more informed decisions throughout their educational journey? At the institution where I worked, we served as an open-enrollment college that accepted students with a wide range of academic backgrounds and life experiences. Placement measures such asContinue reading “How Can Learning Analytics Better Support Community College Students?”