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01
Jul
2021

getacquainted free polling tool

https://getacquainted.co/

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more on chatbots in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=chatbot

29
Mar
2016

polling clickers education

categories: announcement

Using a Mobile Solution to Empower Students in and out of the Classroom

Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2016. Time: 11:00 AM Pacific Standard Time. Sponsored by: i>clicker

archived webcast here:
http://w.on24.com/r.htm?e=1130110&s=1&k=281F43456B7CB0FF8CFD94D02CBC7DDC&partnerref=theremind
(you need to register. That means, sharing personal data, so fill out cautiously).

REEF polling is a proprietary for i>Clickers.
All other contenstors, TopHat, Turning Technologies etc. have the same scheme

methodology of the chemistry teacher:
flipped classroom active learning

quizzes: may not use external resources, graded on accuracy
questions: may use external sources, graded on participation (chemistry teacher wants students to be active and not penalized for wrong answer).

think: students consider the question. submit an answer individually
pair: instructors shows the results (no answer is given); students form groups to discuss their answers; students must agree on the answer
share: students submit an answer individually; the instructor shows the result (an answer is given)

kate.biberdorf@cm.utexas.edu @FunwithChem

follow up q/s, also standard:
1. what to do, if students don’t have smart phones, 2. CRS integration with CMS 3. data export

More on polling and CRS in the classroom in this blog:

https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=clickers&submit=Search
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=classroom+response+systems&submit=Search
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=crs&submit=Search

More on flipped classroom and active learning in this blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=flipped+classroom&submit=Search
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=active+learning&submit=Search

11
Sep
2014

Google buys polling startup Polar to bolster Google+

categories: Google +, social media

Google buys polling startup Polar to bolster Google+

http://www.cnet.com/news/google-buys-polling-startup-polar-to-bolster-google/

Polar, founded last year, polls users on smartphones and tablets by letting them choose between two things — for example: Coke versus Pepsi, or Warriors versus Lakers. The startup has served more than half a billion polls in the past eight months and had 1.1 million active voters in September, according to a blog post by founder Luke Wroblewski.

22
Dec
2021

The Future of University Credentials

categories: badges, educational technology, gamification, gaming

The Still-Evolving Future of University Credentials

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-12-21-the-still-evolving-future-of-university-credentials

Sean Gallagher is founder and executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy, and executive professor of educational policy.

The growth of educational platform companies such as Coursera and 2U is being driven in part by a surge in demand for certificate programs and “alternative credential” offerings. The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020. And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google. Strada Education Network’s consumer polling has shown that 40 percent of working-age adults have earned some type of non-degree credential—and that non-degree credentials are at the top of the list for adults seeking education or retraining.

plenty of confusion or ignorance in the marketplace about the basic differences between “certificates” and “certifications.”

skills-based hiring

badging, embedding certificates into degrees and the idea of offering small credentials on the way to a larger one are emerging as key trends

The future will likely see a continued de-emphasis on merely requiring that prospective employees hold college degrees.

the needs of the job market are changing faster than ever, meaning a greater need for upskilling

a new national survey of C-suite executives that we recently conducted, 70 percent said that U.S. workers should be worried about their skills becoming outdated over the next few years.

Innovations such as stackable non-degree credentials as an on-ramp and low-cost MOOC-based degrees from top universities are likely to only grow access to post-baccalaureate education. The number of MOOC-based degrees is approaching 100

Online education services companies – or “OPMs” as many refer to them, have continued to play a major role in the scaling of online higher education, within, and now increasingly beyond the U.S.

the Lumina-sponsored Connecting Credentials campaign; the launch of the Non-Degree Credentials Research Network; the development of UPCEA’s Hallmarks of Excellence in Credential Innovation,

01
Nov
2021

Extended Reality Higher Education

categories: AR, VR

Extended Reality Tools Can Bring New Life to Higher Education

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-03-29-how-extended-reality-tools-can-bring-new-life-to-higher-education

Zoom, Teams, Skype, and FaceTime all became daily fixtures, and many of us quickly became fatigued by seeing our colleagues, students and far-away loved ones almost exclusively in 2D. Most video conferencing solutions were not designed to be online classrooms. what is missing from the current video platforms that could improve online teaching: tools to better facilitate student interactions, including enhanced polling and quizzing features, group work tools, and more.

While universities continue to increase in-person and HyFlex courses, hoping to soon see campuses return to normalcy, there is mounting evidence that the increased interest in digital tools for teaching and learning will persist even after the pandemic.

We should move beyond 2D solutions and take advantage of what extended reality (XR) and virtual reality (VR) have to offer us.

Professor Courtney Cogburn created the 1,000 Cut Journey, an immersive VR research project that allows participants to embody an avatar that experiences various forms of racism. Professor Shantanu Lal has implemented VR headsets for pediatric dentistry patients who become anxious during procedures. At Columbia Engineering, professor Steven Feiner’s Computer Graphics and User Interfaces Lab explores the design and development of 2D and 3D user interfaces for a broad range of applications and devices. Professor Letty Moss-Salentijn is working with Feiner’s lab to create dental training simulations to guide dental students through the process of nerve block injection. Faculty, students and staff at Columbia’s Media Center for Art History have created hundreds of virtual reality panoramas of archaeology projects and fieldwork that are available on the Art Atlas platform.

In spring 2020, a group of Columbia students began to build “LionCraft,” a recreation of Columbia’s Morningside campus in Minecraft. Even though students were spread out around the world, they still found creative and fun ways to run into each other on campus, in an immersive online format.

19
May
2021

Dos & Don’ts Teaching With Technology

categories: Digital literacy, distance learning, distributive learning, e-learning, educational technology, information technology, instructional technology, online learning, teaching, technology literacy

7 Dos & Don’ts for Post-Pandemic Teaching With Technology

Here’s what students hope you’ll keep doing in the fall — and what they hope you’ll drop.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/7-dos-donts-for-post-pandemic-teaching-with-technology

a February panel of students sharing their views on pandemic teaching….

DON’T lecture with slides for an entire Zoom class.
DO offer more active-learning and discussion exercises in class.
DON’T require students to use a tech tool that you don’t understand.
DO keep using anonymous polling.
DO get students up and about.
DO provide more asynchronous materials and activities.
DO emphasize interaction with and between students.

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more on online learning in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=online+learning

31
Mar
2020

Remote UX Work: Guidelines and Resources

categories: Digital literacy, distance learning, distributive learning, e-learning, educational technology, instructional technology, student-centered learning

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/remote-ux/

capture qualitative insights from video recordings and think-aloud narration from users: https://lookback.io/ https://app.dscout.com/sign_in https://userbrain.net/

capture quantitative metrics such as time spent and success rate: https://konceptapp.com/

Many platforms have both qualitative and quantitative capabilities, such as UserZoom and UserTesting

Tips for Remote Facilitating and Presenting:

turn on your camera
Enable connection
Create ground rules
Assign homework
Adapt the structure

Tools for Remote Facilitating and Presenting

Presenting UX work: Zoom, GoToMeeting, and Google Hangouts Meet
Generative workshop activities: Google Draw, Microsoft Visio, Sketch, MURAL, and Miro
Evaluative workshop activities: MURAL or Miro. Alternatively, use survey tools such as SurveyMonkey or CrowdSignal, or live polling apps such as Poll Everywhere that you can insert directly into your slides.