Viva Las Vegas: An Interview with E-Learn Conference Chair Saul Carliner By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review The 23rd annual E-Learn — World Conference on E-Learning took place from October 15-18, 2018 in Las Vegas. 450 participants from 50 countries, 4 keynotes, 1 panel, 8 workshops, Cirque du Soleil, topic lunches, 250 sessions, 3 SIG meetings, 17 … Read more
Visual Literacies MOOC: Don’t Miss Our Upcoming Webinar Series and Youtube Channel By Chryssa Themelis for AACE Review The visual literacies (ViLi) research project (https://viliproject.eu/) is funded by the European Union (Erasmus+) to specifically research visual literacies from a technology enhanced learning perspective. The project team, comprising of Julie Ann Sime and Chryssa Themelis from Lancaster University … Read more
Of Monsters and Tech: Making an Interactive Book with Scratch and Makey Makey By Angela Brown for AACE Review In a previous post Getting Unstuck with Makey Makey, I hinted at a project that had created a shift in how I value making something simple. This is a story about making something that felt useless. During … Read more
Traveling to E-Learn 2018 in Las Vegas? Don’t Miss the Workshop Lineup! By Allie Alayan for AACE Review The upcoming AACE E-Learn conference is held from October 15-18 in Las Vegas. Have you packed your bags yet? More importantly, have you checked Academic Experts to figure out your schedule and connect to other presenters and participants? … Read more
Improving Civic Discourse by Fostering Web Literacy: An Interview with Mike Caulfield By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review Mike Caulfield is the director of blended and networked learning at Washington State University, Vancouver (WSU). He regularly blogs about edtech topics at Hapgood. He is an expert on informal learning, online communities and open educational resources. Throughout … Read more
EdTech Research: Ready For Your Next Conference? Consider Sketchnoting to Learn and Connect By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review Whether you are packing your bags to attend an edtech conference and looking forward to all the interesting meetings, talks and ideas the event will spark, or you are on your return journey and contemplating how to share … Read more
Designing for Open Learning: An Interview with Gráinne Conole By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review In September 2018 Gráinne Conole started in her new role as Professor and Head of Open Education at the National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University (NIDL). Prior to her current position, the native Irish scholar … Read more
Call for Papers: ‘Design Thinking for Education’, Special Issue De Gruyter Open Education Studies By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review Open Education Studies is a new open access journal by De Gruyter, with Theo Bastiaens as the editor in chief. The 2019 topical issue is focused on ‘Design Thinking for Education’. Design thinking is a problem solving method … Read more
Interview with the Creators of Hoaxy® from Indiana University By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review Figure 1. A Hoaxy® diffusion network regarding claims about the HPV vaccine. Falsehoods are spread due to biases in the brain, society, and computer algorithms (Ciampaglia & Menczer, 2018). A combined problem is “information overload and limited attention … Read more
Getting Unstuck with Makey Makey By Angela Brown for AACE Review Does this ever happen to you? You become hands-on with a new technology and have fun making your first project, and sharing it. You encounter inspirational ideas about what to do next, but somehow the options seem overwhelming. … Read more