Digital Literacy: An Interview with Doug Belshaw By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review Twenty-first century life is fueled by information technology facilitating our actions and communication. Recognizing technology’s usefulness as well as its limitations, technical skills related to varied forms of information technology use have become necessary competencies for citizenry, success … Read more
Designing Assessment By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review Assessment plays a vital role in delivering, evaluating, monitoring, improving and shaping learning experiences on the Web, at the desk and in the classroom. In the process of orchestrating educational technologies instructional designers are often confronted with the … Read more
Help, I Need Somebody – Okay, Google? Help Seeking Offline and Online By Neo Hao for AACE Review Online help seeking is ingrained in our daily information behaviour. For the generation ‘Okay Google’ the answer to any question seems to be just one Web search away. However, help seeking is not effortless, but a skill that … Read more
Patterns Everywhere? An Interview with Christian Kohls By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review Design patterns have become popular in the domains of architecture, software design, human computer interaction, Web 2.0, organizational structures, and pedagogy as a way to communicate successful practical knowledge. Patterns capture proven solutions for recurrent problems with respect … Read more
You Can’t Teach An Old Dog New Tricks? Instructional Support For Adult Learning By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review The saying, ”You can’t teach an old dog new tricks,” depicts a common view many people implicitly share: Learning is best done young. For instance, the younger you learn a language, the better your chances of success. But … Read more
Book Review: Teaching Crowds By Justin Whiting for AACE Review Crowds. They are everywhere, and generally crowds cause challenges for those that have to manage them. Yet, crowds can be exciting, energetic, and full of creativity. Trying to manage the complexities of a crowd, while harnessing the positive … Read more
Stewarding Open Educational Practices: An Interview with Francesca Allegri and Bradley Hemminger By Stefanie Panke for AACE Review The term ‘open educational resources (OER)‘ was coined in 2002 during a forum held by UNESCO as the open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication technologies, for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of … Read more
A Peek into Text Mining (II): Data Visualization By Neo Hao for AACE Review Many educational technology researchers leverage social media data to answer questions about trends, collaboration or learning networks. If you are not a programmer, you will most likely use existing apps and tools to conduct quantitative data analysis and … Read more
Data Visualization with R – Step-by-Step Instructions By Neo Hao for AACE Review This post covers the details of how to use R to generate data visualizations. We will use a sample data set that includes about 800 tweets using hashtag “#edutech” for the purpose of explanation. To learn how this … Read more
A Peek into Text Mining: How to Collect Text Data from Twitter By Neo Hao for AACE Review In the last 25 years, the Internet has fundamentally changed the way we interact with each other. In 1993 there were only 50 static pages on the World Wide Web. Today, social networking tools alone have billions of … Read more