#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
Making Pedagogic Sense of Design Thinking: Author Interview By Allie Alayan for AACE Review As part of the 2019 special issue ‘Design Thinking for Education’ in the DeGruyter open access journal ‘Open Education Studies’ the author quartet Gnanaharsha Beligatamulla, Janice Rieger, Jill Franz, and Megan Strickfaden present a qualitative study investigating educators … Read more
When Students Design University: An Interview with Alessandra Molinari & Andrea Alessandro Gasparini By Allie Alayan for AACE Review Design thinking can provide students with the opportunity to think like an ‘expert designer,’ which can allow for greater engagement and commitment. It can be especially powerful as an instrument for students to become involved in organizational policies within higher education. As … Read more
Beautiful Questions: An Interview with Warren Berger By Allie Alayan for AACE Review There is no better way to start a conference than with a set of great questions. Warren Berger is giving the opening keynote on “The Power of Beautiful Questions” at the E-Learn conference in New Orleans on the … Read more
Open Educational Resources – Tips & Tricks for Producing and Adapting By Allie Alayan for AACE Review Emese Felvégi, Ariana E. Santiago, and Robert M. McCarn are hosting a workshop on Open Educational Resources at the upcoming E-Learn 2019 Conference. Their workshop will take place on Monday, November 4 from 1:00PM-4:30PM. We talked to them … Read more
Creating Learner-Centered Experiences: An Interview with Katie Martin from ‘Altitude Learning’ By Allie Alayan for AACE Review The 2019 E-Learn conference is held from November 4-7 in New Orleans. Do you have your suitcase packed for NOLA? A highlight feature that most participants look forward to in the conference program are the keynotes. At AACE … Read more
Get Hands-On Instructional Design Training at E-Learn: Interview with David Mahaley about Course Authoring Tools By Allie Alayan for AACE Review The upcoming E-Learn conference will be held from November 4-7 in New Orleans. The program contains four workshops as part of the conference. Workshops are a great way to explore a concept, technology or practice in depth, network … 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
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
Global Guidelines: Ethics in Learning Analytics By Allie Alayan for AACE Review In March of 2019, the International Council for Open and Distance Education (ICDE) published a 16-page report on global guidelines regarding ethically-informed practice in learning analytics. The ICDE established a working group, which included seven members from a … Read more