Comment sentiment expressed in YouTube TED talk comments
The top definition of YouTube comments in the urban dictionary is the following: “the only place where a polite discussion about kittens can lead to a flame war about government conspiracies.”...
View Article10 interesting papers in the proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in...
The 2018 Artificial Intelligence in Education conference starts today. Its full proceedings are freely available online until July 21st, and I scrolled through them to identify papers/posters/reports...
View ArticleUniversityNow, National University, and “precision education”
“Precision education” has attracted attention as an instantiation of personalized learning, but my interest in it lies in its (a) perspective of flexibility, and (b) it’s adoption of medical...
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But how do you really feel about being a chatbot?
As some of you know, I’m writing a book on teacherbots, chatbots and artificial intelligence in education. Which means that I have conversations with chatbots every now and then. Like this one: … Read...
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Our (mostly) changing social media practices
I was tagged in doing the black-and-white photo-a-day-for-a-week Internet meme this week. I don’t usually participate in these things (I know, I know… life of the party right here), but this one was...
View ArticleMy neighborhood
I live in a blue-collar, rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. That’s not completely accurate. The neighborhood I live in defies my penchant for classifications. It’s the home of a “west coast fusion” taco...
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Video, tapes, histories of educational technology, and growing up in Cyprus
One of the courses I teach examines the foundations and histories of the field. Writings about the histories of educational/instructional technology/design predominantly identify and examine particular...
View ArticleThe seduction of the digital
Josh Kim wrote a very kind post today over at Inside Higher Ed, highlighting what he sees as three indictments of the role of technology in higher education. There’s good food for thought there, and...
View ArticleAI is coming for your instructional and learning design jobs, apparently
For the most part, the early morning is my favorite time of the day. I like having a cup of coffee or tea, running, reading, writing, and just pretty much doing anything at 6am, than at 10am. This is...
View ArticleOpen Access Educational Technology books
I want to tell you about a new site that Royce Kimmons is launching: http://edtechbooks.org This aims to become go-to location for open texts related to educational technology, instructional design,...
View ArticleHow People Learn II: Learners, contexts, and cultures
The newest edition of How People Learn has been released. Much research has gone into this new edition and I’m looking forward to reading it and sharing it with my students (and, ahem, some of those...
View ArticleCFP: Lifelong learning ecologies
Call for Papers: Lifelong Learning Ecologies Call for papers for a Special Section of The British Journal of Educational Technology “Lifelong learning Ecologies: linking formal and informal contexts...
View ArticleECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2018
Last week, EDUCAUSE released its 2018 study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology. I served as a subject-matter expert on this project and I’m excited to see the report appear in...
View ArticleSearchable directories relevant to educational technology
Contact North | Contact Nord keeps a number of non-exhaustive searchable directories relevant to educational technology leaders, practitioners, and researchers that are really useful, especially...
View ArticleEducational Technology and Related Education Conferences Dec 2018 – June 2019
Clayton Wright has once again provided the educational technology community with an updated (extensive) list of educational technology conferences for the upcoming 6 months. Download a pdf of the list...
View ArticleThree new Tier 2 Canada Research Chair postings
Won’t you be my colleague? Royal Roads University has posted three new Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs. Please consider applying or sharing them with interested colleagues: Indigenous Justice Digital...
View ArticleWomen scholars’ experiences with online harassment and abuse
For the last year or so, my colleagues and I have been working on a SSHRC-funded project examining the experiences of harassment that women academics face online. “We” refers to my colleagues Jaigris...
View ArticleA list of Z-degrees and Zed Creds
On Twitter last week I asked whether anyone had created a list of available a Zed Creds and Z-Degrees. As a way of definition BCcampus writes: “a Zed Cred/Z-Degree is a set of courses in a specific...
View ArticleRoyal Roads joins MITx MicroMasters pathway
I’ve been doing some work on higher education futures, which is where this post fits in. One would be remiss to explore what the future may or may not hold for higher education without first exploring...
View ArticleSo you want to publish your #edtech or digital learning book in an open...
Every now and then someone asks me whether I know of any non-commercial publishers that don’t charge thousands of dollars in OA fees to publish open access books in the field. In this post, I’ll share...
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