Today marks the end of this year’s AACE Edmedia conference in Amsterdam – and what a week it was! 700 participants, a new format with country best paper awards, 5 keynotes, an invited speaker panel with 4 distinguished … Read more
Advances in application programming interface (API) for speech recognition are impacting our everyday lives from smartphones to the Internet of Things (IoT). According to Katy Levinson on Quora.com, “…an API forces structured data-based … exchanges between what the … Read more
Swiss psychologist and epistemologist Jean Piaget stated that education must create people who are capable of accomplishing new things by not simply imitating past generations. Acquiring knowledge to do better things is easily done by watching online selections … Read more
Surrounded by content resources, library spaces can be easily imagined as content creation spaces. School Libraries in particular, can be seen to have an almost ‘goldilocks’ environment, just right for a Makerspace. From outside, it may seem almost … Read more
Through my explorations of Makerspaces, I keep returning to wonder about why we create separate, distinct spaces aside from others “for making”. In a similar way, we also create designated play spaces, like playgrounds “to play”. These boundaries … Read more
There is no question that technology has made it much easier to get things done. The use of online tools has become a great way to enhance and expand the process of collaborating, both among students and between … Read more
This summer, the AACE Special Interest groups Design and Trends conducted a joint call for abstracts for the Special Issue on Mobile Technology for the Journal of Interactive Learning Research. A total of 16 abstracts were selected … Read more