Acceptance and Resilience: Secret Ingredients to Online Teaching By Hardika Shah for AACE Review With the pandemic, we are living in a strange time. We never imagined that most of us would have to wrap up our classrooms and offices to small corners of our homes. Usually humans strive to keep things … Read more
Success Stories from Online Learners: An Interview with Doctoral Candidate Apostolos Koutropoulos By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review Though most higher education institutions are in recess it is a summer pause unlike in past years. For most, the logistics of the fall have yet to be determined. Will it be entirely online, partially online, socially distanced? … Read more
Pivoting to Online, E-Learning, Distance Education, Remote Teaching, Remote Learning: Success Stories from Online Learners By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review The past several weeks have seen a dramatic shift in online and decentralized learning being a somewhat fringe endeavor to being fully mainstream. Administrators, teachers, and students are all trying—with varying degrees of success—to navigate the hurried transition. Against this … Read more
Interactive Infographics with Tableau: Data Snap By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review Data Snap was developed by the Criminal Justice Innovation Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Infographics display information in engaging and interactive formats that allow audiences to manipulate and explore data. They may help … Read more
SITE 2020: How COVID-19 Led to the First-Ever Online SITE Conference By Kathryn Mosby for AACE Review Due to COVID-19 health concerns, SITE 2020 was held as a completely online conference for the first time in the Society’s 31-year history. SITE’s community and leadership, along with a small team of 3 moms with 6 children … Read more
An App for Comics and Inclusive Learning By Chryssa Themelis for AACE Review The CiELL is a KA2 project, innovation in higher education. It focuses on inclusiveness in English language learning. Inclusion is defined in the UN framework as: “a process of systemic reform embodying changes and modifications in content, teaching … Read more
#keepteaching through Sadness, with Hope – Processing Emotions in Times of COVID-19 By Allie Alayan for AACE Review When I learned the news that the institution I work at was moving all online for the remainder of the semester, like many of the universities in the country, I felt overwhelmed with sadness. I did not have … Read more
Corona Reading List: Let’s #KeepTeaching By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review The valuable professional lesson from COVID-19 for me as an instructional designer is in appreciating the faculty response. At a research 1 institution it may sometimes seem that teaching is not the priority. The collective effort of the … Read more
Artificial Intelligence and Animated Pedagogical Agents By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review Artificial Intelligence is a “high potential” trend in the 2020 Innovating Pedagogy Report (read the report summary). The first post in this series provided a background of artificial intelligence in education. This post will outline three goals of … Read more
Submit by April 30: Special Issues on ’Artificial Intelligence’ and ‘Networked Learning’ By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review One of the most rewarding aspects of my academic writing journey has been organizing and contributing to special issues. As the many different outlets for edtech research can feel overwhelming to readers and writers alike, the advantage of … Read more