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
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
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
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
Insights From Innovating Pedagogy Report 2020: Data Literacy, Data Ethics and Evidence-Based Action By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review With the new publication schedule introduced last year, the month of January marks the release of the annual Innovating Pedagogy report. The Open University published the 2020 edition in collaboration with researchers from the National Institute for Digital … Read more
E-Books as Open Educational Resources: Local Government in North Carolina Textbook By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review According to several educational technology foresight studies, e-books have become an influential emerging technology for teaching and learning that is likely to play a significant role in higher education (cf., Horizon Report 2010, Horizon Report 2011, Innovative Pedagogy … Read more
Create a Hybrid Creature in Scratch 3.0 By Angela Brown for AACE Review Scratch 3.0 has a great library of Sprites (characters and props that you can animate). These often have multiple costumes so that you can animate the characters. Once children have experimented with the interface, they soon begin to … 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
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