Archive of ‘learning’ category

29
Apr
2021

Facilitate Effective Group Work at Business Schools

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

free webinar: ‘How to facilitate effective group work at business schools’ on May 5 at 1PM ET.

This webinar will gather teachers and instructional designers from business schools in a panel discussion to share and exchange ideas on improving group dynamics and social loafing in team based education.

We’re happy to welcome Mustafa Elsawy, Learning Technologist from Georgia State University and Jeff Webb, Associate Professor from David Eccles School of Business as guest speakers for the discussion to share their insights on:

  • Why and how team based learning adds value to course design;
  • The challenges of implementing and facilitating group work in online, blended and hybrid classrooms;
  • How peer feedback and peer assessment can contribute to achieve learning outcomes;
  • How to empower faculty to scale peer feedback/assessment in future courses and prepare students for the labor market

You can learn more about the event on our website and register for free here.

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

28
Apr
2021

Rumble.com

categories: announcement, educational technology, information literacy, information technology, media literacy

https://rumble.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumble_(website)
Researchers studying conspiracy theories and misinformation about COVID-19 note that several content creators have gained a receptive audience on Rumble after their productions have been pulled from Youtube or Facebook. They include Del Bigtree, Sherri Tenpenny, and Simone Gold.[9][10]

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/rumble/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/christopherelliott/2019/02/21/these-are-the-real-fake-news-sites/

26
Apr
2021

The dark side of education research

categories: Digital literacy, educational technology, teaching

The dark side of education research: widespread bias

Johns Hopkins study finds that insider research shows 70 percent more benefits to students than independent research

https://hechingerreport.org/the-dark-side-of-education-research-widespread-bias/

The study, “Do Developer-Commissioned Evaluations Inflate Effect Sizes?”

There are a number of reasons for why developer studies tend to show stronger results, according to Wolf, whose full time work is to evaluate educational programs. The first is that a company is unlikely to publish unfavorable results. Wolf speculates that developers are more likely to “brand a failed trial a ‘pilot’ and file it away.”

This isn’t the first study to detect bias in education research. The problem of hiding unfavorable results from publication was documented as far back as 1995. In 2016, one of Wolf’s co-authors, Robert Slavin, wrote about the positive results that researchers get when they devise their own measures to prove that their inventions work.

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