Archive of ‘learning’ category

01
Oct
2020

Beyond Incrementalism

categories: distance learning, distributive learning, e-learning, information technology

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

01
Oct
2020

office in VR

categories: AR, Digital literacy, e-learning, educational technology, gamification, gaming, information literacy, information technology, instructional technology, VR

https://www.lifewire.com/your-next-office-could-be-in-virtual-reality-5079457

  • The pandemic is driving interest in using virtual reality for business.
  • Facebook’s Oculus 2 VR headset will support an application called Infinite Office that allows people to work in a virtual office.
  • Advances are needed before VR can replace real-life interactions, experts say.

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more on VR in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=vr+virtual+reality

more on XR in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=extended+reality

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

01
Oct
2020

Coursetune on Future Trends

categories: announcement, Digital literacy, distance learning, distributive learning, educational technology, technology literacy
This week we’re diving into technology and its impact on higher education with the help of a terrific guest.  On Thursday, October 1st, from 2-3 pm EDT, we’ll be joined by Maria Anderson, math professor, futurist, entrepreneur, and previous Forum guest.
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.
I plan on asking Maria about how campuses are using new and emerging technology to improve online or blended learning this fall.  Which technologies have moved to the forefront in this pandemic semester?

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.

To RSVP ahead of time, or to jump straight in at 2 pm EDT this Thursday, click here:

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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

30
Sep
2020

deepfake Putin

categories: digital citizenship, Digital literacy, distance learning, distributive learning, educational technology, information literacy, information technology, media literacy

Deepfake Putin is here to warn Americans about their self-inflicted doom. AI-generated synthetic media is being used in a political ad campaign—not to disrupt the election, but to save it. from r/technology

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/29/1009098/ai-deepfake-putin-kim-jong-un-us-election/

They then worked with a deepfake artist who used an open-source algorithm to swap in Putin’s and Kim’s faces. A post-production crew cleaned up the leftover artifacts of the algorithm to make the video look more realistic. All in all the process took only 10 days. Attempting the equivalent with CGI likely would have taken months, the team says. It also could have been prohibitively expensive.

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

27
Sep
2020

stories from Romania

categories: academic library

This story reads as the one about Matthias Corvinus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Corvinus and Vlad Tepes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_the_Impaler or Vlad the Impaler., or Vlad Dracula.
After the Ottoman Empire attacked Vlad Tepes from the South, Matthias Corvinus, one of the recognized most educated sovereign in his times, start spreading rumors that Vlad sucks blood from his peasants, to spread demoralization, so he can expand to the East on account of Vlad Tepes’ lands.

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