Archive of ‘learning’ category

17
Jun
2021

H5P Live engagement tools

categories: educational technology, information technology, instructional technology

Live engagement tools June 2021 Release

https://h5p.org/live-engagement-tools-released

  • Live reports.
  • Reports stored in each student profile.
  • Report exports (csv).
  • Background music (several included options, and you may upload your own).
  • Fully customizable color themes as well as several ready made WCAG compliant themes to choose from.
  • Extra polish with animated backgrounds and a captivating student experience.

Multipoll allows you to combine Emoji Clouds, Word Clouds, Image Hotspot questions, Multiple Choice questions as well as texts, videos and images into a larger experience with multiple pages. Multipoll may be used to conduct larger surveys or as an intro to a larger discussion for instance.

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more on H5P in this iMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=h5p

13
Jun
2021

Instructional approaches

categories: Digital literacy, distance learning, distributive learning, e-learning, educational technology, gamification, online learning

A Beginner’s Guide to Flipped Classroom

https://www.schoology.com/blog/flipped-classroom

Our 2018-2019 Global State of Digital Learning research study revealed some interesting insights about instructional approaches. It was taken by 9,279 education professionals from all across the country in various roles and districts.

When we look at instructional approaches most frequently used, the top ones are differentiated instruction (73.5%), blended learning (54.8%), and individualized learning (47.8%). And while flipped learning, personalized learning, and gamification command the most press, they aren’t being practiced as much as one might think. In many ways, this makes a lot of sense. These approaches require more time and resources than many of the others.

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03
Jun
2021

publish or perish

categories: academic library, information literacy, information technology

Hundreds of gibberish papers still lurk in the scientific literature

The issue began in 2005, when three PhD students created paper-generating software called SCIgen for “maximum amusement”, and to show that some conferences would accept meaningless papers.

Springer also sponsored a PhD project to help spot SCIgen papers, which resulted in free software called SciDetect.

The publishers who posted the most SCIgen content were Trans Tech Publications, a Swiss publisher, which published 57 SCIgen papers, Blue Eyes Intelligence Engineering and Sciences Publication (BEIESP), based in India, which had 54; and Atlantis Press, a French publisher that was acquired by Springer Nature this March, with 39.

SCIgen papers are extremely rare: Labbé and Cabanac estimate from their screen that they make up a mere 75 papers per million in the computer-science literature. They are a far smaller problem than are, for instance, suspected paper mills.

the existence of these papers is an indication of the harmful effects of a ‘publish or perish’ culture, and an example of how nonsensical work can still make it into conference proceedings or journals.

 

03
Jun
2021

Positive deviants

categories: academic library, educational technology

‘Positive deviants’: Why rebellious workers spark great ideas

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210528-positive-deviants-why-rebellious-workers-spark-gr-ideas

Organisations tend to see rebels as troublemakers – but suppressing these individuals and their ideas could backfire.

There is psychological evidence that rebelliousness is essential for creativity. Harvard psychiatrist Albert Rothenberg spent more than five decades researching individuals who had made ground-breaking contributions to science, literature and the arts, seeking to understand what drove their creativity.

To investigate the benefits of rebelliousness further, a team led by Paraskevas Petrou at the Erasmus University Rotterdam recently surveyed 156 employees from various industries in the Netherlands. They measured rebelliousness via a questionnaire that asked participants to rate their agreement with statements such as:

  • I break rules
  • I know how to get around the rules
  • I use swear words
  • I resist authority

If they are committed to creativity, leaders should take practical steps to ensure that progress is achievable, ensuring that the “rebels” have the available space, funding and time to pursue innovative ideas that may appear crazy, unwarranted or out of place at the time, but that could subsequently save the organisation.

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

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