Alternative Credentials: How Can Higher Education Organizations Leverage Open Badges? By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review In order to encourage participation in online communities or other informal learning settings, and to facilitate users’ professional development, a “badge” system offers recognition of an individual’s achievement and contributions. Photo Credit Manada Torak-Renn, flickr creative commons. Badges are … Read more
Curiouser and curiouser: creating stories and games with Alice 3 – Part 2 By Angela Brown for AACE Review This article is the second part of a two-part series exploring the free 3D animation software Alice. Part 1 was to get you ready to start with Alice and to explore the interface. Part 2 shares my process … Read more
Curiouser and curiouser: creating stories and games with Alice 3 – Part 1 By Angela Brown for AACE Review This article is the first part of a two-part series exploring the free 3D animation software Alice. Using Alice, you can: animate stories and build virtual reality worlds design and build interactive games learn to program object-oriented code … Read more
Angela Brown – Makers, Monsters and Humble Heroes: A Year of Writing with AACE Review By Angela Brown for AACE Review It is hard to imagine that I have now been writing with AACE Review for the last year! I can honestly say it has been a lot of fun. Writing blog posts about subjects I love, alongside other … 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
Interview with the Creators of Hoaxy® from Indiana University By Sandra Rogers for AACE Review Figure 1. A Hoaxy® diffusion network regarding claims about the HPV vaccine. Falsehoods are spread due to biases in the brain, society, and computer algorithms (Ciampaglia & Menczer, 2018). A combined problem is “information overload and limited attention … Read more
Getting Unstuck with Makey Makey By Angela Brown for AACE Review Does this ever happen to you? You become hands-on with a new technology and have fun making your first project, and sharing it. You encounter inspirational ideas about what to do next, but somehow the options seem overwhelming. … Read more
Prepare for fun! Scratch 3.0 is coming By Angela Brown for AACE Review Popular and free, the block-based code platform Scratch was originally launched in 2007, by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at MIT Media Lab. Scratch rapidly grew an online community on its platform for games, animations and storytelling, primarily aimed … Read more
Visual Collaboration Tools By Joseph Chan for AACE Review In this blog post, I discuss visual collaboration tools that allow groups to create galleries, share documents, and communicate through chat, comments or other messaging services. Whether you wish to share ideas, create new content, or invite collaborators … Read more
Augmented Reality with Aurasma By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review Augmented reality (AR) offers a new way of seeing and interacting with the learner’s natural environment. Augmented reality describes the addition of a computer assisted contextual layer of information to the physical world, thereby creating an enhanced experience. … Read more