Learning design is about designing and creating the best conditions for learning to result. It’s the design of experiences and those experiences come in different shapes and sizes. 1/
Real (on brand!), usable, practical tips here @SharonAltena, great to see you in CMM this morning 👏🤓 : Ways to help HRD research students isolated by COVID-19 https://t.co/vX2y8L0Qkq
"Only 23% of ACODE-surveyed universities said they would return to full lecturing". 👏👏👏Evolution is not a slow fade but truly comes in fits and spurts. We're in the middle of a breathtaking and groundbreaking spurt.
https://t.co/d9Z2Zcw52o
Fascinating article in @timeshighered on cheating in online exams. Is technology or #authenticassessment the answer? I know what I think, how about you? https://t.co/A5gHODv80b
@JohnBirmingham I had no idea so many Australians like panettone. It’s still good but I abstain got scarred by it as an Italian Australian kid, world’s most disappointing cake WHERE IS THE ICING SND SMARTIES???
Cadmus is looking for a University Engagement Manager to support growth and build advocacy across our Sales and Customer Success units. If you're relationship-focussed and love working towards ambitious goals, we'd love to hear from you.
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A Zoom meeting uses 540 MB to 1.62 GB of data per hour.
In Africa, median price for 1 GB is $7.04 w/ some higher than $20 per GB.
Africans pay for 'free' conferences and webinars. Pay for meetings. Pay to download your large attachments.
#beconsiderate.
No one escaped COVID’s impacts, but big fall in tertiary enrolments was 80% women.
According to @unimelb's @BrenChurchill this is likely due to caring responsibilities.
https://t.co/pbqwphn7Zy
I had to teach my Introduction to Psychology class today to 300+ students from my cell phone while I was trapped in my apartment building elevator with my two young kids.
This has to go down as my most surreal and stressful teaching experience.
Lots of people were interested in my collaborative, open-chat exam. The UNSW Integrity Unit approached me to do a case study. If you want to learn more, here is the write up (click first heading "Open collaboration exam"): https://t.co/FRUdIzGemr
@L71Smith I know mate 🤬Unfortunately this is the latest in a line of algorithmically racist tech... from hand soap dispensers to google images to a current blowup around how Twitter crops images Exhibit A: https://t.co/NCGKmtibMY
Another truly awful design outcome to add to the list of truly awful examples where designers didn't think to design for everyone and specifically inclusively for all skin colours. 😠😢 For flips sake do better people!
I can't stop thinking about this graph.
Kids from high-income zip codes made more math progress DURING the COVID shutdowns than they did BEFORE.
Kids in middle-class areas held steady.
Kids in low-income areas made much LESS progress.
Chart via: https://t.co/vviV0khLfy
If anyone needs convincing, meta-analysis finds that...
👏students have no clear preference between online/f2f
👏f2f + self serve video = huge improvement
👏self serve video instead of f2f = slight improvement
🤓Conclusion: video is consistently good for learning