Last week, I hosted a virtual pet café via Zoom. I invited pretty much everyone I knew: friends from all across the country, colleagues, soccer teammates, classmates. People showed up with their cats and dogs ready to introduce them to…
Category: Educational Technology
All across the country, student affairs professionals are trying to figure out how to move their services online. Appointments for things like academic advising and counselling are being moved to Zoom or some other video-conferencing tool. Some writing centres are…
Over the last 10-20 years, there has been a pretty rapid shift from analogue to digital. Podcasts, videos, blog posts and social media are now a major part of most people’s daily ecosystem. As these mediums become more prevalent, the…
I fell in love with the internet a long time ago. As a young, unconfident introvert, it was a great way for me to share thoughts and engage in conversations while being a safe distance away from judgement. As an…
I’ve been reading a lot about quality online learning lately, both for a literature review I had to write, and for course readings. There are a lot of factors that influence online learning effectiveness, and a lot of small (and…
I never thought that reading an academic article would be an emotional experience, but reading Funes and Mackness’ article When inclusion excludes: A counter narrative of open online education felt like I was on an emotional rollercoaster. It started off…
There’s no debating that education is a good thing. Education can lift people from poverty, move society forward, and open up new opportunities and possibilities. In this light, open practices seem like a great idea. They make education accessible to…
Asking an entire class to read an entire textbook about educational/information technology would be a lot. 1400 pages of a lot. Luckily for our EDCI 570 class, our instructor didn’t do that. Instead, she tasked us with dividing ourselves into…
How do we effectively integrate technology into the learning experiences we are designing for our learners? That’s a huge question, and one whose answer could have a large impact on education. Lots of research has been done in this area,…
Trying to tell a group of educators who are studying educational technology that media does not influence learning is almost guaranteed to bring out the pitchforks. If media has no influence, then what is the point of our entire degree?…