A Rubric to Identify Online Course Plans for a Community of Inquiry By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review Community of Inquiry A community of inquiry (COI) is what it sounds like—people gather to learn from each other. I argue that a COI can be preplanned to engender a robust learning environment. What that entails is under … Read more
Digital Well-Being: Are Devices Overwhelming or Extending Our Minds? By Chryssa Themelis for AACE Review Smart devices have undeniable benefits for productivity, social connections, entertainment and technology enhanced learning. The concept of digital wellbeing (mental and physical health related to the use of digital tools) assumes that private and professional life is saturated … Read more
EdTech Research: Organizing a Call or Conference? Explore EasyChair Conference Management System By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review Easychair is a web conference management system (CMS) that allows researchers to organize a variety of paper submission and review processes. Originally developed for conferences only, Easychair has been used for journal special issues, workshops, grant proposal review, … Read more
“Hello world!” A beginner’s guide to the Hour of Code By Angela Brown for AACE Review Hour of Code held between December 3 – 9 is a global invitation reaching out to anyone and everyone. You are invited to spend an hour exploring the language of computer code. If you have never written code … Read more
Review: An urgency of teachers: the work of critical digital pedagogy by Sean Michael Morris and Jesse Stommel. By Angela Brown for AACE Review An Urgency of Teachers: the work of critical digital pedagogy is a collection of intelligent counsel and an emotional summons. Sean Michael Morris (@slamteacher) and Jesse Stommel (@jessifer) can be arresting poets. When I first stumbled upon Jesse … Read more
An Overview of E-Learn 2018 Award Papers in LearnTechLib By Allie Alayan for AACE Review Each AACE conference awards best papers to honor submissions that offer a significant contribution to the field of educational media, learning and technology. Award paper publications are typically available as open access through LearnTechLib. These conference highlights comprise some … Read more
Virtual Reality For Everyone: An Interview with Greg Garner from Panoform By Angela Brown for AACE Review Panoform is a virtual reality application that allows people to transform drawings into immersive, three-dimensional environments. All you need is pen, paper, a smartphone with Internet access and, ideally, a VR viewer, example a simple Google Cardboard viewer. … Read more
Panoform – Explore Your Own Sketches In Virtual Reality With Simple Materials By Angela Brown for AACE Review My introduction to Panoform for creating virtual reality was through an AACE Review article on the Making Workshop at EdMedia 2018. This article shares our experiments in an informal learning setting. The Panoform website describes the intention of … Read more
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