This is an unedited automated transcript produced by my Pixel 4 from this presentation: https://www.downes.ca/presentation/526 Hi everyone. I’m Stephen Downs and I bring you greetings from my home office in…
Note: this is an unedited audio transcript generated by the Google sound recorder app on my Pixel 4. In the future I may edit it (or if you want to,…
Jane Hart has issued her annual call for our top ten e-learning tools, and here’s mine. I’ve named my list ‘personal learning tools’ because I think of learning as an…
This is an unedited transcript created by the Google Sound Recording on the Pixel 4 (the main reason I bought this phone in fact) of the webinar I gave July…
If you expect change, what do you think the “new normal” will be for the average person in 2025? What will have changed most? What will not change much at…
PDF versions of the Full Paper and References. Presented at EDEN 2020 – Presentation page. Abstract The growth and development of learning analytics has placed a range of new capacities…
Someone asked me by email, do you have any advice on how to come up with blog post ideas? I recently launched an informational website, so far I have around…
“We have no wish to denigrate or criticize online distance education,” write the authors of Pandemic politics, pedagogies and practice, “but rather, the aim of this brief editorial is twofold:…
Note: I received a request for responses to some questions in my email. The questions were quite involved and it would take me quite a while to type answers. But…
Responding to an enquiry about assessment. – what about the practical work that must be done in the laboratory? It depends on the laboratory, but mostly, students will not be…
Alex Usher points out quite correctly that universities will need to be online by the fall. We’re not likely to be out of the Covid woods by then, and in-person…
I have a lot of sympathy for those working in educational technology positions at schools and universities today because they have been thrust into the unenviable position of converting a…
Martin Weller has released his book 25 Years of Ed Tech today. It’s a nice read; you are encouraged to check it out. But I have to confess, on having…
This is part two of a series. If you haven’t read part one, you should do so now. Click here to read part one. OK them welcome back. Let’s begin…
This is a really interesting project that allows you to write posts in markdown, MS Word or Jupyter notebooks and publish them in a blog using GitHub pages. No website…
With even the World Economic Forum embracing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) I thought it would be an appropriate time to check my own activity and see whether…
Learning with technology is different from learning with textbooks or learning with classroom instruction. In these, the focus is on understanding and remembering. It is content based. The learning objective…
https://adaptivelearninginelt.wordpress.com/2020/02/10/more-research-needed/I am broadly sympathetic with the arguments offered by Philip J. Kerr in this recent post, but I have disagreements around the edges, enough that I think more discussion is…
I just want to take a few moments to consider Bryan Alexander’s comments about flying to conferences. As most readers know, I have flown to hundreds of academic conferences over…
This is the analysis of the UNESCO OER resolution I provided to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO prior to the discussion and vote on the resolution concerning Open Educational Resources…
