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OLDaily, acrónimo de Online Learning Daily, es un boletín sobre e-learning mantenido por Stephen Downes.
OLDaily
https://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm
OLDaily, acrónimo de Online Learning Daily, es un boletín sobre e-learning mantenido por Stephen Downes.
Feeling exhausted after video chats? There's a reason for that
Publicado en OLDaily el 26/02/2021
The recent "Stanford Study" on Zoom fatigue is a useful case study illustrating what goes wrong in science reporting and news generally (and illustrates why you shouldn't just follow 'trusted sources'). The original article, which I covered...
Leer másWhy Community Belongs at the Center of Today’s Remote Work Strategies
Publicado en OLDaily el 26/02/2021
The ugly side of performance-based funding for universities
Publicado en OLDaily el 25/02/2021
"It is difficult to see these exercises as anything more than heavy-handed ideological attempts to redesign the fundamental mission of our universities," writes Marc Spooner. "Universities will be coerced away from their traditional aspirations of fostering critical, creative,...
Leer másStanford researchers identify four causes of "Zoom fatigue" and their simple fixes
Publicado en OLDaily el 25/02/2021
I've read reports describing all four of these causes, so it's not true that Stanford researchers have "identified" them, only that they've "listed" them. That said, I do appreciate their efforts to create a standard method of measuring the phenomenon, which they call...
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"I began to see the words and ideas of far-right extremists being repeated back to me as truth," says Stephanie Wescott, and this should be worrisome for educators of all stripes. How to respond? Wescott attempts to equip students "with the...
Leer másBlursday Social with Tyton Partners on a New EdTech Product Selection Tool
Publicado en OLDaily el 25/02/2021
This is really just a product placement in Michael Feldstein's blog plugging a service developed by friends of his, in an ad for an upcoming webcast, which I would normally just ignore, but the beta demonstration page for CourseGateway...
Leer másPublicado en OLDaily el 25/02/2021
Virtual Improv Activities for Remote Learning
Publicado en OLDaily el 25/02/2021
I remember ever-so-clearly that when the IMS Learning Design specification was introduced at a conference in Vancouver in 2003, complete with the actor-role metaphor it employed, I asked, "what about improv?" In this sort of theatre, made famous by companies such as...
Leer másPublicado en OLDaily el 24/02/2021
This is a long post on TikTok but it's filled with a ton of good bits and accords quite well with my own experience on the platform (though tbh there are no videos of me dancing on TikTok). What makes TikTok great, writes Eugene Weim is that it enables creativity and not just...
Leer másMENA Higher Education Pedagogy, Technology and the Refugee Experience
Publicado en OLDaily el 24/02/2021
This study (48 page PDF) of the provision of online learning to refugee students in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is at once unsurprising and...
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