On 06/17/2021,
in adjunct faculty, assessment, colleges, community colleges, faculty/staff, higher education, ideas, instructional design, law schools, learning, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, liberal arts, pedagogy, podcasting, teaching & learning, United States, universities, vendors, writing,
by Daniel Christian
From DSC:
You might be interested in reviewing one or more of the items out at Faculty Focus Live Podcasts.
Some example podcasts:
- Episode 11: Assessing Online Student Learning: How You Can Gauge Activities and Writing Through Online Assessment
- Episode 9: Live with Wendy Trevor: Overcoming Student Distaste for Collaborative Group Work Online
- Episode 8: Establishing and Revisiting Our Teaching Philosophies and Teaching Personas
- Episode 7: Finding the Missing Piece: How to Help Your Students Who Are Struggling with Online Learning
On 06/15/2021,
in adjunct faculty, adult learning, assessment, colleges, communications, community colleges, faculty/staff, higher education, Learning Experience Design, pedagogy, relationships, student-related, teachers, teaching & learning, universities,
by Daniel Christian
Caring for Students Playbook: Six Recommendations — from by Every Learner Everywhere in partnership with Online Learning Consortium (OLC) & Achieving the Dream
Table of C0ntents:
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On 03/30/2021,
in A/V -- audio/visual, active learning, assessment, Canada, career development, communications, design, digital audio, education, Europe, ideas, K-12 related, learning, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, learning spaces, multimedia, music, new media literacies, participation, passions, real-world assignments, student-related, teachers, teaching & learning, tools, UK, United States, vendors, vocational / trades, youth,
by Daniel Christian
NJ High School Adds New Recording Studio to Learning Spaces — from spaces4learning.com by Matt Jones
Excerpt:
A career and technical high school in New Jersey has added new professional recording gear to one of its teaching spaces. County Prep High School, part of Hudson County Schools of Technology, added hardware from Solid State Logic (SSL), a UK-based company that manufactures analog and digital audio consoles for music and audio production. Students in the music and audio technology program learn how to write their own songs and produce their own music. The senior project involves putting a label together and releasing songs.
The new studio at County Prep High School features professional equipment from Solid State Logic.
Source: Solid State Logic
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Addendum on 4/1/21:
- Control Room 42 ushers in the future of broadcasting — from derivative.ca
Excerpt:
Control Room 42 (CR42) a project from RTBF, public broadcaster for the French speaking part of Belgium, gives broadcasting’s traditionally hardware-based control room a radical makeover enabled by TouchDesigner in ways its designer Hugo Ortiz thought impossible a few years ago. Recipient of The European Broadcasting Union’s Technology and Innovation Award 2020, this new software-based control room prototype that also integrates Artisto for audio and Smode for real-time graphics brings game-changing innovation to the broadcasting industry.
On 03/26/2021,
in accessibility / UDL, adjunct faculty, assessment, Bias | Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DE&I), colleges, community colleges, content development, aggregation, repositories, corporate universities / corporate training, digital audio, digital learning, digital video, faculty/staff, higher education, homeschooling/homeschoolers, instructional design, K-12 related, law schools, learning, Learning Experience Design, Learning from the Living [Class] Room, learning preferences, liberal arts, more voice more choice more control, multimedia, neurodivergent/special needs, new media literacies, online learning, pedagogy, productivity / tips and tricks, teachers, teaching & learning, teaching online, Uncategorized, universities,
by Daniel Christian
If equity is a priority, UDL is a must — from cultofpedagogy.com by Katie Novak
Once you identify the firm goal, ask yourself, “Based on the variability in my class, what barriers may prevent learners from working toward that goal and how can I eliminate those barriers through design?”
Excerpt:
When we design the same learning pathways for all learners, we might tell ourselves we are being fair, but in fact, single pathways are exclusionary. Beverly Daniel Tatum, author of the critically acclaimed book, Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race, challenges us to focus on impact over intentions. It may not be our intent to exclude our learners, but the reality is that many students do not have opportunities to learn at high levels or to access curriculum and instruction that is accessible, engaging, culturally sustaining, and linguistically appropriate.
Luckily, there is a framework that rejects these one-size-fits-all solutions and empowers educators to proactively design learning experiences so all students can increase their brainpower and accelerate and own their learning. The framework is Universal Design for Learning (UDL).
UDL is a framework for designing learning experiences so students have options for how they learn, what materials they use, and how they demonstrate their learning.
From DSC:
I put together this graphic as I’m working on a Module (for Canvas) to address the topic of accessibility:
By Daniel Christian March 2021
On 03/12/2021,
in assessment, Australia, colleges, community colleges, higher education, law schools, learning spaces, online learning, pedagogy, productivity / tips and tricks, teaching & learning, teaching online, universities, vendors,
by Daniel Christian
4 Tips for Offering Online Exams — from techlearning.com by Erik Ofgang
The University of New England, Australia has given more than 40,000 online exams over the past year, here’s what they’ve learned
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
UNE administrators are considering doing away with an exam period because it initially was created for logistical purposes. “We needed to have all the exam venues booked, and the desks and chairs moved in, and the supervisors ready in the papers there,” Day says. “Now we are able to hold exams, anywhere, anytime, any day. So why do we need an exam period? It’s allowing structural changes to the academic calendar, it gives us a few weeks per teaching period back for teaching, perhaps.”
Day says you can also incorporate elements of video and website exploration into your exam, opening up both the type of questions you ask and the type of answers students can provide.
Rethink the Exam Structure
Switching from paper to online exams is an opportunity for instructors to reexamine the exams themselves, Day says. “It requires you to question why you hold exams, why you hold exams when you do, and how you hold exams.”
On 12/22/2020,
in assessment, innovation, law schools, Legal operations, legal reform, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, telelegal, trends, United States, videoconferencing,
by Daniel Christian
Top 5 legal technology stories of 2020 — from abajournal.com by Nicole Black
Excerpts:
- The unprecedented transition to remote work
- Videoconferencing became the norm
- #Barpocalypse
- Legal tech wealth
- Utah and Arizona allow nonlawyer ownership of law firms
On 12/17/2020,
in assessment, business, microlearning, mobile learning, multimedia, online learning, tools, United States, workplace,
by Daniel Christian
For Carolina Panthers, Learning Online Translates To Better Play On Field — from forbes.com by Michael Horn
Excerpt:
The solution the Panthers devised wasn’t the traditional one of just studying and memorizing voluminous playbooks coupled with endless Zoom calls. They instead turned to an education startup called Learn to Win.
Learn to Win is one of the pioneers in mobile learning, as it uses the principles of sound instructional design to transform training material that’s critical to an organization’s success into content that allows people to learn faster and more effectively.