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Monthly Archives: October 2016
A Letter to Blackboard on W²3k
Dear Blackboard, GBC Education Consulting’s upcoming new product “WidgetWare 3000” (aka W²3k) is going to revolutionize education. This will be THE killer app for schools that changes the way we think about teaching and learning. In fact, it will change … Continue reading
Posted in education
Tagged analytics, Big data, Blackboard, education technology, hype, hype cycle, learning management systems, LMS
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Notes From an Open Licensing Playbook
I was at a great webinar today sponsored by CCCOER called “Open Licensing Playbook” and presented by Quill West and Cable Green and hosted by Una Daly of CCCOER. “Open licensing of instructional materials such as textbooks, videos, and other related resources … Continue reading
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Tagged Copyright, creative commons, Creative Commons license, licensing, oer, open textbooks
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Drones and Education: a view from above
Now I am not going to pretend like I am doing anything right now with drones except having a lot of fun and taking some interesting pictures. But I am in the education field and I have been reading articles … Continue reading
Asking the Wrong Questions About Captioning
I first read about this at Stephen Downes’ blog, a study entitled “The Effects of Captioning Videos on Academic Achievement and Motivation: Reconsideration of Redundancy Principle in Instructional Videos” by Muzaffer Ozdemir, Serkan Izmirli, and Ozden Sahin-Izmirli. In their abstract … Continue reading
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Tagged accessibility, captioning, Closed captioning, Learning disability, stephen downes, video, YouTube
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Free CC0 Videos – Pexels Videos
Video can be an important component in online courses. Even though our lectures and demonstration videos may seem sufficient, getting other supplemental resources in to a class can help students learn as supplemental content can provide information from a different … Continue reading
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Tagged Copyright, creative commons, Creative Commons license, Free content, media, Stock photography, video, visual learning
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