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
Symposium: Examining the Dynamics of Visual Communication and Visual Literacy in Modern Society By Chryssa Themelis for AACE Review Visual communication and new media connect us and explain the world we are living. Research and teaching practices have indicated a transformative change in the way we express ourselves, manage our identities online and ‘narrate’ theoretical frameworks … Read more
How Students with Depression Experience Online Learning: Tracy Orr’s Research Offers Pointers for Course Developers By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review The learning journey, with its mission of moving students from a place of unknowing to a place of mastery, is inherently challenging. When undertaken in a fully online environment, often alongside full-time work and family responsibilities, it takes … Read more
2019 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report – Review and Summary By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review In April of this year, the 2019 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report came out, archived here in LearnTechLib. For the uninitiated, the Horizon Report profiles what an expert panel of international leaders from across higher education identify as six key … Read more
Book Review: Made by Humans: The AI Condition By Angela Brown for AACE Review Made by Humans: The AI Condition by Ellen Broad (Melbourne University Press, 2018) is a startling book. Broad prompts us to scratch beyond the surface of the smooth sheen of AI interfaces. She exposes the shaky foundations of … Read more