Poltergeist-inspired Pedagogy and Haunted House Heutagogy: Three Ideas to Embrace the Holiday Spirit(s) By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review The month of October can often feel a little flat in the educational calendar. The energy and excitement of the first days of school are over, and the promise of a holiday break is still over a month … Read more
Designing Online Learning Spaces (3): A picture is worth a thousand words? A Summary of Mayer’s 12 Principles of Multimedia Learning By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review Imagine you want to learn a new skill. This skill can be as pedestrian as how to correctly poach eggs or as complex as how to play a Bach oboe concerto. If you are anything like one-third of … Read more
E-Books as Open Educational Resources: Local Government in North Carolina Textbook By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review According to several educational technology foresight studies, e-books have become an influential emerging technology for teaching and learning that is likely to play a significant role in higher education (cf., Horizon Report 2010, Horizon Report 2011, Innovative Pedagogy … Read more
Create a Hybrid Creature in Scratch 3.0 By Angela Brown for AACE Review Scratch 3.0 has a great library of Sprites (characters and props that you can animate). These often have multiple costumes so that you can animate the characters. Once children have experimented with the interface, they soon begin to … Read more
Goodbye Backpack, Hello Badgr? Open Badge Platforms By Allie Alayan for AACE Review In August 2019, Mozilla announced that it is retiring its Open Badges Backpack platform and moving all user accounts to Badgr, a platform created by the company Concentric Sky (CSky). CSky was the lead author of the Open … Read more
Designing Online Learning Spaces (2): Losing viewers to the great abyss? Basic UX principles for wayfinding By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review Picture a website you enjoy visiting. It can be for news, shopping, video viewing, etc. How do you feel as you work your way through content? Do you naturally know where to click, how to navigate, and how … Read more
Learning through Wonder By Angela Brown for AACE Review “Wonder is a state of radical attention and openness to the world around us.” Caspar Henderson – A new map of wonders – a journey in search of modern marvels The Innovating Pedagogy Report 2019 (The Open University in … Read more
Designing Online Learning Spaces (1): How will you read this page? By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review Picture a science lab in your mind; now picture a lecture hall; finally, picture a piano studio. Most likely, each space that you imagined looked very different. Just as the setup of a physical classroom implies a particular … Read more
Silence is Golden? An Interview with Leslie Duran on Silence Online By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review In the past, higher education pedagogy has been built largely on the framework of a single knowledgeably expert speaking while others quietly listen and learn. Listening and silence are seen as positive in brick and mortar education, signaling … Read more
Keynote Review: More than a MOOC- Seven Learning and Teaching Scenarios to Use MOOCs in Higher Education and Beyond By Allie Alayan for AACE Review Dr. Martin Ebner, an Austrian researcher who is an expert on open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs) recently presented a keynote to the “International Seminar on Linguistics and Literature” at the ‘Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto’, … Read more