Author: Stephen Downes

Summary of a talk by Baltasar Fernandex Manjon at CELDA 2019 ie.ft.com/uber-game Serious games –         Have been used successfully in many domains – medicine, military –         But low adoption in mainstream education –         So we say we’re working in ‘game-like simulation’ http://getbadnews.com –         Fake news, trolls, e-influencers http://play. (Read more…).com

Summary of a talk by Ekwow Spio-Garbrah at eLearning Africa. The challenge for everyone is to find out how gto give back before moving to the next level of existence. Mentorship is one very important way to do so. Also to pick up on what Jef said about talent and

Summary of a talk by Linda Nanan Vallee at eLearning Africa. I felt close to something Jef said earlier, about the mission we have on Earth. So I just wanted to share some very personal things, because I fel like we are a family. When I was young I wanted

Summary of a talk by Mahid Abdulkarim at eLearning Africa. I want to tell you a story. We ll learn from stories. I hope it will show why technology means so much for a student like me. My country, Sudan, went through a revolution. We overthrew a president of 30

Summary of a talk at eLearning Africa given by Jef Staes. I’m going to tell a story of why education is failing. We have a design error. 1. This is a battle of two groups of people. There was an information shortage. So industry started schools. But today everything has

Summary of talk by Martin Dougiamas at e_learning Africa. I’m just going to focus on open ed-tech. We had a conference about Moodle in this room yesterday. Our mission at Moodle is to improve the world, and we’re doing this by making an open source platform. The values drive the

Summary of a talk by Efosa Ojomo, Christensen Institute, at eLearning Africa in Abidjan. The four Ps of education: purpose, problem, practicality, promise. The porpose: not simply to get people in a classroom, but to improve the human capital of society so they can be productive. Problem: education is both

Summary of the presentation The 2019 National Survey of Online Learning in Canadian Post-secondary Education: Preliminary Results and Implications. Moderated by Tony Bates. This is a follow-up from the first survey from 2017. Results are now available at https://onlinelearningsurveycanada.ca/ One of our main aims is to ensure our work adds

Summary ofTeaching and Learning in the Digital Age for Indigenous LearnersWith Robert Andrews, Executive Director, Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of AlbertaDeborah Hurst, Dean of Business, Athabasca UniversityDeAnne Lightning, AU-FB BComm Student Robert Andrews Video Talking about the program they have with Athabasca University, to increase the managerial capacity of First

Summary of:Digital Learning 4.0: How to Guarantee Measurable Learner Impact Where Others Have FailedPaul HunterDirector Digital Learning, IMD Business School IMD is a business school based in Switzerland. (Table discussions – what are you doing in digital learning, what have been your biggest successes and challenges). Table summary: Successes: one

Summary of a presentation:The Gen Z Learning Journey From Higher Education To The WorkplaceGiselle Kovary, M.A., Presidentn-gen People Performance Inc. I want to cover research on Gen Z, especially from a Canadian context. They’re more 1996 than 2012. But we can’t make a statement about an individual person based on

Summary of ‘From Anxiety to Opportunity – The next 20 years of learning innovation’, John Baker, CEO, D2L. To look at the future it’s helpful to understand the present and where we’ve been in the past. It’s 20 years since D2L started – it has been a bit of a

Summary of ‘Educating the Next Generation Workforce: Preparing Students to Meet Employers’ Expectations’  by Susan Aldridge,  President (ret), Drexel University There are new types of jobs for students gradauating today, and new learning opportunities in igital labs, etc. Technology has enhanced our lives. So it has become crucial for higher

Summary of a talk by Alan Bostakian, Senior Analyst, TD Bank – Future Ready project  Why? The field is moving extremely fast and very soon all professionals will need to have some level of understanding about them.  These areas help is in upskilling, instructional design, instructon, coaching, more. The Basics Data

Summary of the talk “Hearables” by Rory McGreal –    What are they – Hunn 2014 – speaker-microphone in-ear with AI–    Progressive development from earphones, hearing aids, etc–    Can monitor: Blood pressure – stress, excitement Etc. ‘Biological Equivalent to a USB port’ FDA approval no longer required Could call 911 for

Shaping (As Opposed to Stumbling Into It!) – The Future of Online Learning and Training Stephen Murgatroyd, PhD, Chief Innovation OfficerContact North | Contact Nord These are summary notes of the talk, taken by me, “I’m here because I’m old…. So I have a (Read more…) that says ‘Be careful

This is the result of a quick survey I did today on the Canadian governments’ stance on cryptocurrency, responding to an internal request. This is a policy-neutal document; that is, I don’t advocate one way or another for any of the items described below. Overall, over the last few years,

The fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal continues to roil. Ethan Zuckerman has left the Media Lab. Joi Ito has resigned in disgrace, Nicholas Negroponte offered a bone-headed defense, Lawrence Lessig has written a bone-headed defense, an official at Brown has been taken down, we probably haven’t seen the end

If you take a look at this George Couros post, you’ll learn that the “Sunday Seven” is by the Burgess Consulting community, of which “IMPress Books” is a part of as a subsidiary company. I have nothing to do with either – but you can get my Sunday Seven without

The New York Times today came out with a list of “the 25 works of art made after 1970 that define the contemporary age, by anyone, anywhere.” What struck me as most significant was how little any of the works meant to me. Most of them I had never heard