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more on special education in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=special+education
https://www.facebook.com/groups/onlinelearningcollective/permalink/694538971176804/
I’m thinking of hosting a “Play with the Professor” game night using Agar.io and/or Skribbl.io.
Has anyone try that? How did it go? Any tips will be greatly appreciated.
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more on gaming in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=gaming
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7wxvd/students-are-rebelling-against-eye-tracking-exam-surveillance-tools
Algorithmic proctoring software has been around for several years, but its use exploded as the COVID-19 pandemic forced schools to quickly transition to remote learning. Proctoring companies cite studies estimating that between 50 and 70 percent of college students will attempt some form of cheating, and warn that cheating will be rampant if students are left unmonitored in their own homes.
Like many other tech companies, they also balk at the suggestion that they are responsible for how their software is used. While their algorithms flag behavior that the designers have deemed suspicious, these companies argue that the ultimate determination of whether cheating occurred rests in the hands of the class instructor.
As more evidence emerges about how the programs work, and fail to work, critics say the tools are bound to hurt low-income students, students with disabilities, students with children or other dependents, and other groups who already face barriers in higher education.
“Each academic department has almost complete agency to design their curriculum as far as I know, and each professor has the freedom to design their own exams and use whatever monitoring they see fit,” Rohan Singh, a computer engineering student at Michigan State University, told Motherboard.
after students approached faculty members at the University of California Santa Barbara, the faculty association sent a letter to the school’s administration raising concerns about whether ProctorU would share student data with third parties.
In response, a ProctorU attorney threatened to sue the faculty association for defamation and violating copyright law (because the association had used the company’s name and linked to its website). He also accused the faculty association of “directly impacting efforts to mitigate civil disruption across the United States” by interfering with education during a national emergency, and said he was sending his complaint to the state’s Attorney General.
here is a link to a community discussion regarding this and similar software use:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/RemakingtheUniversity/permalink/1430416163818409/
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more on Proctorio in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=proctorio
“Some of the more prominent companies offering these services include Proctorio, Respondus, ProctorU, HonorLock, Kryterion Global Testing Solutions, and Examity.”
https://www.facebook.com/groups/onlinelearningcollective/permalink/680939699203398/
Looking for different ways for students to share their knowledge. I’ve done Jamboard, Google Slides, Discussion posts, padlet…I just want something different and am not able to come up with any great ideas here. Anyone come up with anything else fun or interesting? This is for an asynchronous course.
Jamboard, https://edu.google.com/products/jamboard/
Google Slides jambor
Padlet https://padlet.com/
Flipgrid
Canva
Adobe Spark
TikTok
https://dotstorming.com/
Mural.co https://www.mural.co/
Miro https://miro.com/
Sketchnotes https://www.jetpens.com/blog/sketchnotes-a-guide-to-visual-note-taking/pt/892
Pear Deck https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=pear+deck
Near Pod https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=nearpod
EdPuzzle https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/2017/11/01/digital-assessment-session/
Beyond Incrementalism
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/09/22/too-many-presidents-are-focusing-tactics-rather-strategy-during-challenging-time
In a time of growing and increasingly complex challenges, too many top administrators, leadership teams and boards are focusing on tactics rather than strategy
how should presidents begin to think strategically about the content and the pedagogy of the education their institutions will offer going forward? How should they lead their institutions to take concrete steps to eliminate systemic inequities on their campuses? How can they facilitate a commitment to combat racism not only on their campuses but also in their local communities and beyond? How can they manage all this as many face daily threats to their institution’s financial health?
Some of the presidents with whom I talked, along with several trustees and faculty members, have inspired the following suggestions for how at least some campus leaders may begin to think about the future.
Move even more online.
Rethink goals in light of demographic realities, concerns about costs and shifting student interests.
Reconceptualize and streamline institutional structures to better serve faculty and student realities.
Consolidate student support services.
Embrace the virtue of the out-of-doors.
Budget for mission, with long-term strategies in mind.
Address systemic racism, sexism, homophobia and other biases.
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Responding to Susan Resneck Pierce’s excellent Views piece, “Beyond Incrementalism.”
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/blogs/learning-innovation/online-learning-not-strategic
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more on administration in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=administration
| Maria is the principal consultant at Edge of Learning and the CEO and Cofounder of Coursetune, an edtech company that builds curriculum design, management, visualization, and collaboration software.
Previously, Maria has been the Director of Learning and Research for Instructure. For ten years she taught mathematics as well as chemistry and social media full-time at Muskegon Community College. She was also the Learning Futurist for the LIFT Institute. |
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And, as always, you will have the chance to ask your own questions. After all, the way the Forum works is that all attendees can ask our guests questions, engage and collaborate with other leaders in education technology, and also invite friends and colleagues to join.
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my notes from the meeting:
CMS do not cut it anymore
class sections are obsolete in online environment
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more on future trends in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=future+trends
https://www.facebook.com/groups/onlinelearningcollective/permalink/663427347621300/
Anyone being coerced by admin to do synchronous classes instead of asynchronous? I’m zoomed out.
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more on synch vs asynch in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=synchronous+vs+asynchronous
https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/blogs/online-trending-now/hands-classes-distance-and-emerging-virtual-future
As we enter the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), we must be vigilant to keep our classes relevant to the rapidly changing workplace and the emerging digital aspects of life in the 2020s.
deployment of 5G delivery to mobile computing
Certainly, 5G provides a huge upgrade in bandwidth, enabling better streaming of video and gaming. However, it is the low latency of 5G that enables the most powerful potential for distance learning. VR, AR and XR could not smoothly function in the 4G environment because of the lag in images and responses caused by a latency rate of 50 milliseconds (ms). The new 5G technologies drop that latency rate to 5 ms or less, which produces responses and images that our brains perceive as seamlessly instant.
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more on the 4IR in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=industrial+revolution
https://www.facebook.com/groups/onlinelearningcollective/permalink/654845191812849/
Discussion in my faculty meeting this morning: academic advisor shared that even though students previously said they wanted synchronous courses (because they were more like f2f courses) they now are dropping synchronous in favor of asynchronous. I find this hard to believe. Is anyone actually experiencing this?
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more on synchronous discussions in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=synchronous
more on asynchronous discussions in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=asynchronous
