Game Learning Analytcs for Evidence=Based Serious Games
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…
Stephen Downes
Turning Talent into Skills and Skills into Success
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.…
Linda Nanan Vallee at eLearning Africa
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…
Mahid Abdulkarim at eLearning Africa.
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…
The Electricity of Learning
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…
Martin Dougiamas, e_learning Africa
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…
Efosa Ojomo, Christensen Institute
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…
The 2019 National Survey of Online Learning in Canadian Post-secondary Education: Preliminary Results and Implications
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…
Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age for Indigenous Learners
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…
Digital Learning 4.0: How to Guarantee Measurable Learner Impact Where Others Have Failed
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…
The Gen Z Learning Journey From Higher Education To The Workplace
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…
From Anxiety to Opportunity – The next 20 years of learning innovation
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…
Educating the Next Generation Workforce: Preparing Students to Meet Employers’ Expectations
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,…
The impacts of Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence on Learning and Development
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…
Hearables
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…
Shaping (As Opposed to Stumbling Into It!) – The Future of Online Learning and Training
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 Canadian Government and Cryptocurrency
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,…
Higher Education and Rich People
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…
My Sunday Seven
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…
Your Art, My Art
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…