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Using technology to assess 21st century skills
Recently the US Department of Education shared their recommendations for improved learning through the use of technology in their report, Transforming American Education: Learning Powered by...
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New MOOC – change.mooc.ca
Stephen Downes, George Siemens and Dave Cormier are at it again – delivering another freely accessible massive open online course about “Being connected changes learning.” This is my third attempt at...
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Variety of mobile learning options
I have been following the latest MOOC - change11 topic on mobile learning, which intrigues me as a potential learning technology. It seems countries outside of North America are relying more on this...
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Instructional design strategies for blended and online learning
At the link below are slides for a recent workshop at the Community Access Symposium in Edmonton, Alberta. In the slides, I outline some main theoretical frameworks and approaches I follow to design...
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Rhizomatic possibility
Dave Cormier spoke this week via the change MOOC venue on rhizomatic learning – a model meaning that “curriculum is not driven by predefined inputs from experts; it is constructed and negotiated in...
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Designing learning like radio programming
Recently I completed an instructional development project for a client who was open to my concept of designing an educational diploma program in the same manner as radio programming. Their student body...
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Creativity and education: can they coincide?
I recently listened to a talk given by Dave Snowden through the MOOC course, Change.MOOC.ca. Dave is a well spoken man with passion and conviction about cognitive processes. My understanding of the...
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The Hype of E-Learning?
I recently listened to a refreshing session with Steve Weiland presenting for an Athabasca University’s CIDER session. Steve addressed the hype of e-learning from a unique perspective. Like many of us,...
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Something to learn from the corporate world on e-learning
Recently I designed a report with a partner for a professional organization looking to place a classroom seminar online. This organization was relatively new to delivering learning online and looked to...
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Who pay$ for OER developments?
Money talks and makes the world go around. Something I have been questioning for some time is the sustainability of OER (open educational resources). It amazes and thrills me to see the effort put into...
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Contextualizing learning through the Ecology of Resources (EoR) framework
Ecology of Resources Design Framework (EoR) The EoR is a framework used to investigate and consider the forms of resources a learner currently obtains, and subsequent resources to help build their...
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Instructional design tools
At the moment I am engaged in a MOOC on open learning design with a consortium of universities and educational organizations in the UK – really great learning! It is titled Learning Design for a 21st...
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Prototyping tools
In the MOOC delivered by the Open Learning Design Studio focusing on 21st Century Curriculum we explored tools to design a prototype of a technology-based element to learning, such as activity, LMS,...
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