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
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
How Informational are Infographics? An Interview with Julia Moritz By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review Infographics visualize topics and data in a compact format, and are of growing importance for learning material and editorial media. The carefully crafted design of icons, arrows, symbols and numbers is visually appealing. Cloud applications such as … Read more
An Exploration into the Roots of Artificial Intelligence in Education By Lisa Hammershaimb for AACE Review As noted last month, it is time once again for the yearly dose of “innovative pedagogy” in the form of The 2020 Innovating Pedagogy Report. This year’s report is a collaboration between researchers from the Open University and … Read more
Augmented Reading – Bringing Books to Life By Angela Brown for AACE Review “A book is a device to ignite the imagination.” Alan Bennett, The Uncommon Reader. Bringing a story to life Increasingly, creative app developers, visual artists, authors and publishers are pushing beyond the boundaries of how we “experience” reading. … 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
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
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
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
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