Learning Ecosystems

The Skills Needed to Practice “New Law” [Vasudevan]

On 04/19/2022, in analytics, Artificial Intelligence/Agents/LLMs/and Related, change, changing business models, data related items, law schools, Legal operations, legal reform, legal technologies, legislatures / government / legal, mathematics, new business models, skills, UK, United States, universities, by Daniel Christian

The Skills Needed to Practice “New Law” — from abaforlawstudents.com by Ram Vasudevan

Excerpt:

…but proficiencies in technology, data and analytics, math and statistics, finance and budgeting, and large-scale project management are among the most valuable. Each of these skill sets now comes into play in the practice of law on a near-daily basis.

All these new legal competencies have in common the recognition that legal projects involve far more than legal skills. Too many lawyers, however, are still narrowly focused on the legal aspect of their work and are therefore missing out on a whole host of opportunities. Rising lawyers and law firm graduates who might have previously struggled to be part of the hiring conversation can now make themselves highly marketable by becoming experts in one or more of these areas and filling a pressing need in today’s legal organizations.

Also relevant/see:

The Legal Tech Tools Clients Are Actually Using – TR Report — from artificiallawyer.com

Day in the Life: Blind or Visually Impaired Professionals [Howard]

On 04/19/2022, in accessibility / UDL, assistive technologies, Bias | Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DE&I), business, corporate / business world, neurodivergent/special needs, productivity / tips and tricks, tools, workplace, by Daniel Christian

Day in the Life: Blind or Visually Impaired Professionals — from inclusionhub.com by Jeffrey Howard
While blind or visually impaired professionals still encounter inaccessibility and exclusionary hiring practices, some companies are adopting more inclusive protocols including remote work options and other accommodations.

Excerpt:

“It’s the same as someone asking for a second or third monitor,” continues Preston-Watson. “I’m asking for a screen reader. You’re asking for these accommodations. I’m just asking for the tools to do my job. People in different roles need different tools to do their jobs. And that’s the same thing for disabled workers.”

VR Technology Meets Drivers Ed Thanks To Boys & Girls Clubs [Carlton]

On 04/18/2022, in 21st century, 24x7x365 access, 3D, A/V -- audio/visual, vendors, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning, vision/possibilities, wearables, XR - extended reality, youth, by Daniel Christian

VR Technology Meets Drivers Ed Thanks To Boys & Girls Clubs — from vrscout.com by Bobby Carlton

Teaching: Fresh Approaches to Faculty Development — from chronicle.com by Beckie Supiano

Excerpt:

Baranovic can’t imagine returning to the old model: He’s sticking to panels in Zoom. Among the benefits, he says: “This arrangement breaks institutional silos, allows faculty to talk more about their experiences, shares effective practices from sources faculty trust (their peers), creates a stronger sense of community, makes it easy for panelists (they receive the questions ahead of time if they want to prepare, but because they’re speaking to experience, they don’t really have to prepare), and creates a form of support that works like therapy but doesn’t feel like therapy.”

Next, Baranovic hopes to turn the panels into a podcast format for professors unable to attend in real time.

From DSC:
As someone who had been involved with Teaching & Learning Centers for years, I can tell you that it’s very disheartening to put together a training session for faculty members and have very few — if any — people show up for it. It’s a waste of time and it leaves the T&L staff and/or IT staff members feeling discouraged and unvalued.

Over the years, I developed a preference for putting things into an asynchronous digital format for faculty members and adjunct faculty members to access per their own schedules. The institutions that I was working for got a greater ROI from those sessions and they were able to visit an internal “course” or website to reference those materials on-demand.

I also like the idea of podcasting here, but that takes a lot of time and effort — and isn’t always possible when you are one person trying to assist hundreds of faculty members (from a technical support and an LMS admin standpoint).

As an Instructional Designer, I also want to comment that it’s hard to help steer a car if you can’t even get into the car. Those institutions that are using team-based approaches will be far more successful in designing and developing more polished, effective, accessible learning experiences. Very few people can do it all.

The Re-Emergence of Competency-Based Education: What It Might Look Like and Why It’s Needed in Today’s Classrooms [Look]

On 04/18/2022, in assessment, competency-based learning/education, education, instructional design, K-12 related, learning, Learning Experience Design, teachers, teaching & learning, by Daniel Christian

The Re-Emergence of Competency-Based Education: What It Might Look Like and Why It’s Needed in Today’s Classrooms — from thejournal.com by Keith Look

Excerpt:

For the current or upcoming unit of instruction, identify three learning targets to be assessed. Have students show what they know through both traditional modes of assessment as well as through CBE experiences. Then, consider what the data shows:

For which learning targets is student competency better presented through traditional assessment? Through CBE?
- Is that a factor of the learning target or the way in which the assessment (traditional or CBE) challenged students?
- Based on this experience, what kinds of learning targets may lend themselves more to CBE? To traditional assessment?
Are there students who more effectively demonstrate competency through the CBE than the traditional assessment?
- Why is CBE a more effective vehicle for those students?
- Could the task itself be revised to unlock the same potential in other students?

Short and Sweet: The Educational Benefits of Microlectures and Active Learning [Zheng]

On 04/18/2022, in A/V -- audio/visual, active learning, adjunct faculty, assessment, colleges, community colleges, education technology, engagement / engaging students, higher education, instructional design, interaction design, interactivity, learning, learning ecosystem, Learning Experience Design, tools, universities, by Daniel Christian

Short and Sweet: The Educational Benefits of Microlectures and Active Learning — from er.educause.edu by Hua Zheng; with thanks to the Learning Now TV Newsletter – April 2022
The combination of short videos and the techniques of active learning can create rich, engaging educational experiences to maximize learning.

Excerpt:

The goal of interspersing a microlecture with active learning approaches is to improve student engagement and learning performance when participating in online, hybrid, or face-to-face instruction. Empirical studies have shown that active learning approaches, such as combining pause points with interactive quizzes, tasks requiring written responses, or note taking, can improve student performance.

Paralegal Pathways Initiative [change-center.law.columbia.edu]

On 04/18/2022, in career development, collaboration, ideas, law schools, learning ecosystem, reinvent, society, by Daniel Christian

Paralegal Pathways Initiative — from change-center.law.columbia.edu

Excerpt:

Housed at Columbia Law School, the Paralegal Pathways Initiative (PPI) aims to amplify the talents of formerly incarcerated individuals by providing skills-based legal training and connecting them with professional mentorship in preparation for careers in the legal field.

“I Am At The Service Of Ceramics”: A Conversation With Artist Grégoire Scalabre [Gualandris]

On 04/18/2022, in art, creativity, by Daniel Christian

“I Am At The Service Of Ceramics”: A Conversation With Artist Grégoire Scalabre — from ignant.com by Devid Gualandris

A beautifully intricate piece of artwork made out of ceramics

Addendum on 4/19/22:

Densely Arranged Stone Gradients Sweep Across the Sand in Jon Foreman’s Extraordinary Land Art — from thisiscolossal.com by Grace Ebert

Inflation and labor shortages set to squeeze college budgets, Moody’s says [Seltzer]

On 04/18/2022, in business side of he, colleges, community colleges, higher education, law schools, United States, universities, by Daniel Christian

Inflation and labor shortages set to squeeze college budgets, Moody’s says — from highereddive.com by Rick Seltzer

Dive Brief:

Colleges face their highest expense growth in over a decade as rising costs combine with wage inflation, labor shortages and a push to hire, according to two new reports issued this week by Moody’s Investors Service.
At the same time, volatility has returned to the investment market, and recent public funding increases are waning, Moody’s said. Colleges also face mounting enrollment uncertainty that raises risks for tuition-dependent institutions that lack a national brand and deep pockets.
Most of the U.S. higher education sector will remain financially stable in the near term thanks to strong endowment values and liquidity levels that grew recently, the reports said. But Moody’s analysts expect the converging pressures to squeeze many colleges’ budgets in fiscal 2023 and beyond.

To those who celebrate it: Happy Easter to you! Thank you LORD!!!

On 04/16/2022, in faith, global / globalization, hearts -- matters of the heart, relationships, religion, by Daniel Christian

Picture of an empty tomb -- so glad the tomb was empty! Happy Easter to those who celebrate it!

Innovative and practical applications of the metaverse — from mckinsey.com

In this episode of the At the Edge podcast, McKinsey expert Richard Ward speaks with McKinsey’s Mina Alaghband.

Excerpts:

One of the things that we’ve learned during the pandemic is that if you put these metaverse design rooms up on the internet, your clients and other expert engineers can log in remotely, and the experience takes on the quality of Zoom in 3-D, which allows a new level of engineering to happen. The beauty of it is that people are able to do highly productive engineering design work without getting on an airplane. And that has a lot of rollover value for what we’re doing long term.

One of the great lessons we’ve had from the pandemic, as horrible as it’s been, is that things that people had said were impossible for decades are now possible. Like the idea that you can’t possibly have everybody not be in the office—it’s been proven wrong.

Also relevant/see:

What is the metaverse—and what does it mean for business? — from mckinsey.com by Cathy Hackl

Subject: Race on Campus: Pronouncing Students’ Names Correctly Is Important. Here’s How. — from chronicle.com by Fernanda Zamudio-Suarez

Excerpt:

When the pandemic moved classes online, Kohli said, platforms like Zoom helped the name-pronunciation process. On Zoom, users can change the way their name is displayed and include a phonetic spelling, making it simpler for everyone to get names right.

If the class is in person, Kohli says modeling behavior after the Zoom interface and asking students how their names are pronounced and how they’d like to be addressed.

For in-person classes, look at your roster ahead of time, Baker-Brown said. If you see a name you don’t recognize, break up the syllables and sound it out.

Then, practice. Repeat it until you get it right, and saying the name becomes second nature.

From DSC:
One other idea that I’m sure is out there, but it needs to be more commonly implemented:

Each learner should be able to record their name in the CMS/LMS for others to hear how their name is pronounced

#Canvas #Moodle #Blackboard #D2L #edtech #corporatetraining #L&D #vocationalprograms #K12 #HigherEducation

Magic Leap 2 Aims to Bring AR to Businesses, With No BS This Time [Connie Guglielmo]

On 04/14/2022, in Augmented Reality (AR), business, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, Microsoft, tools, training / L&D, XR - extended reality, by Daniel Christian

Magic Leap 2 Aims to Bring AR to Businesses, With No BS This Time — from cnet.com by Connie Guglielmo
CEO Peggy Johnson explains why a focus on the business sector with its new, smaller headset can transform the augmented-reality market.

Excerpts:

Fast forward to 2022. Magic Leap has a new leadership team helmed by former Microsoft and Qualcomm executive Peggy Johnson, an even lighter-weight headset due later this year and — perhaps most important — a new mission that focuses on winning over business customers rather than individual consumers.
…
Johnson says the company has learned from its past and will focus on winning over its enterprise customers with the Magic Leap 2, which will go up against Microsoft’s $3,000 HoloLens 2 when it’s released before year’s end.

Learning Ecosystems

Day in the Life: Blind or Visually Impaired Professionals [Howard]

VR Technology Meets Drivers Ed Thanks To Boys & Girls Clubs [Carlton]

Reflections on “Teaching: Fresh Approaches to Faculty Development” [Supiano]

Short and Sweet: The Educational Benefits of Microlectures and Active Learning [Zheng]

Paralegal Pathways Initiative [change-center.law.columbia.edu]

“I Am At The Service Of Ceramics”: A Conversation With Artist Grégoire Scalabre [Gualandris]

Inflation and labor shortages set to squeeze college budgets, Moody’s says [Seltzer]

To those who celebrate it: Happy Easter to you! Thank you LORD!!!

Innovative and practical applications of the metaverse [mckinsey.com]

Magic Leap 2 Aims to Bring AR to Businesses, With No BS This Time [Connie Guglielmo]

Greetings!

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