Bring your Own Device 4 Learning
Next week a truly open learning experience will take place online and I’m honored to be a facilitator. Bring your own device for learning is a collaborative open event that kicks off with a Twitter...
View ArticleResolving the Conflict between Higher Education and Social Media
Originally posted by Whitney Kilgore on December 17, 2012 – 8:05 pm (on facultyecommons.com) Dr. Sarah Smith-Robbins, known to her colleagues and social media followers as “Intellagirl,” gave a...
View ArticleThe big announcement from UTx – TEx
At SXSWEDU on Tuesday, March 10th Dr. Marni Baker-Stein shared the news that the UT system has developed a total experience system for teaching and learning online in a competency format. She said...
View ArticleLicense 2 Skill: Building Digital Credential Value
Panelists: Michael Cordero, Lead Educator at Urban Arts Partnership Johnathan Finkelstein, Credly Founder and CEO Larry Johnson, CEO of The New Media Consortium Tracy Petrillo, Chief Learning Officer...
View ArticleSynchronous vs Asynchronous Debate
On Sunday, March 22nd, I was joined by two brilliant ladies, Dr. Maha Bali and Dr. Peggy Semingson in a #HumanMOOC Google Hangout. We discussed the affordances and limitations of technology...
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Faculty Satisfaction with Teaching Online
The demand for online courses has increased dramatically–so has the number of faculty teaching online. Online pedagogy has evolved over a short period of time, creating challenges with changing...
View ArticleThe importance of play in learning
On April 28th, I had the privilege of hosting #profchat with some amazing educators and educational designers in higher education. In my own experiences as a learner the times I have had fun or...
View ArticleThe #HumanMOOC at #eMOOCs2015
Pecha Kucha format for eMOOCs conference talk yesterday in Mons, Belgium: Slide 1: It is my pleasure to share with you the design intent and iteration of the HumanMOOC. This course developed community...
View ArticleReflections on the eMOOCs Conference
This week I had the privilege of presenting at the #eMOOCs conference in Mons, Belgium. As I’m flying home reflecting on the experience I’m reminded of the power of social media. Many of the people...
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Using TAGS to pull data from Twitter (Thanks @mhawksey)
I’ve been using Martin Hawksey’s TAGS to collect twitter data recently. The collected tweets will be used during coding practice in Computer Mediated Discourse Analysis (CMDA). In case you need to do...
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Get Involved in K-12 Online Learning Research: Notes from #olc15
The pre-conference session presented by the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute Team (Kathryn Kennedy, Joe Freidhoff, Kristen DeBruler, Rebecca Stimson, & Justin Bruno) along with Jered...
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Gratitude for #dLRN15
I feel very privileged, humbled, and honored to have had the opportunity to attend the dLRN conference at Stanford University and to present some of the ideas and research that I’ve been working on...
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LX Design: Remix your Learning Experience Design Process
Notes from the session at SXSWEDU: Remix your Learning Experience Design Process Led by: Martin Moran & Lindsey Own Session designed for K12 educators, provided insights that are aligned with my...
View ArticleLearning Pathway Designs
This panel will address the variety of credentialing pathways that are available and how design impacts these new learning models. Each of the panelists brings a different set of experiences to the...
View ArticleUX to LX: The Rise of Learner Experience Design
>Published on EdSurge 6.20.16 The term “user experience” or “UX” wasn’t always an overused Silicon Valley buzzword. Coined in the mid ‘90s by Don Norman, while he was vice president of advanced...
View ArticleBring the baby?
How are we creating student centered learning environments and meeting the needs of all learners? Well at the University of Tennessee one professor is making news for doing just that. According to an...
View ArticleImpact Learning Podcast
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Dr. Maria Xenidou and share my learning journey with her as well as some ideas about the future of teaching and learning. I hope you enjoy listening to...
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