The Flipped Classroom continues to emerge as one of the most exciting grassroots movements in the academic world. Teachers all across the world are trying it and loving it. Make no mistake, the flipped classroom is no “trend” – it is a clear reflection of how technology truly can be a powerful tool for educators who are inspired to do the very best by their students
Social Learning in Online Courses
I truly believe that better incorporation of social learning is vital to making online learning more engaging. Many online programs struggle to attain retention rates similar to most in-seat programs. One of the elements generally lacking in online learning (but natural to the face-to-face classroom) is a healthy level of social interaction. When online teachers make the effort to build social interaction into the digital classroom, they create multiple opportunities to enhance engagement and improve learning outcomes.
Tools to Embed Questions in Videos
Admittedly, this is not the kind of game changing ed tech idea that others on this list are, but I still think it is worth noting. Over the last year, EdPuzzle, EduCanon, and Zaption are a few of the tools that I have seen mentioned over and over in the ed tech social media over the last year. This capability has just ‘blown up’ over the last year or so, getting a lot of attention, and for good reason
he average annual information technology budget for campus operations ranges from just 5 to 7 percent of total revenue at public and private 4-year universities, a budget that includes salaries and the ongoing maintenance and equipment to keep all things running smoothly. T
The budget allocation for IT has not gone up more than a 1 percent over the past 10 years, yet the technology expectations continue to double annually.
Every IT leader needs to see the world of campus technology from a fresh, yet exciting perspective. This fresh perspective is what some are calling the NetGen Campus, Smart Campus, or Empowered Campus designs.
The small details of IT can make big things happen.
Retention has reached 95 percent for fall and spring semester freshman, and placement has hit an all-time high of 99 percent. Technology has played a key role, but so did all the processes, people, leaders, and vendors. Collectively, it all works together to leverage the small investment in technology across all areas.
I believe technology leaders and campus technology teams can leverage a major shift by taking the 4 to 8 percent of funding they receive and using technology to leverage the appropriate growth to transform their campuses.
Device ownership alone doesn't make people digitally literate; rather, digital literacy is about how and why they use devices to achieve particular goals and outcomes.
Definitions of digital literacy can include the ability to use and access digital devices, but studies from the past decade tend to deepen this definition. A commonly cited definition from Colin Lankshear and Michele Knobel asserts that digital literacy is "shorthand for the myriad social practices and conceptions of engaging in meaning making mediated by texts that are produced, received, distributed, exchanged etc., via digital codification."
s." In other words, it's not just owning the devices that makes you digitally literate—it's how and why you use those devices to achieve particular goals and outcomes.
In particular, the use of video can be of huge benefit—but only when done correctly. Here are some tips for effectively incorporating video into your training.
Keep it Short
According to some Google researchers, the ideal video length is between three and three-and-a-half minutes
Keep text minimal, visual, and only use it to highlight keywords and concepts. If you are introducing something new that will be unfamiliar to the viewer, display that on the screen in clear text for them to see.
Incorporate Graphics
Another good technique is to break up all of the words with graphics. It’ll help everyone if there is more variety of content, but particularly the visual learners among your employees
Combine Instruction with Examples or Scenarios
Using imagined scenarios or examples can be the best way to help viewers to understand how certain instruction will apply in their day to day work, and video content is the best way to provide this.
Copyright and intellectual property policy on lecture capture ‘evolving’, says report, but institutions should provide supportive advice to academics
Universities will take “risks” on copyright and intellectual property rights infringement when recording lectures because there is still so much “uncertainty” within the sector as to what is appropriate policy, according to the authors of new research into the issue.
nearly three-quarters of UK institutions started lecture recording in 2016, but 40 per cent of respondents to the report’s survey said that their institutions only “kind of” had policy documents on the topic.
Their report, which surveyed 33 universities, found in almost all cases that the responsibility for copyright issues in lecture content lay with the lecturer but a “significant amount of the policy documents did not make these responsibilities clear”. The paper recommends that universities “make clear” who is responsible, but also “provide supportive copyright advice…on issues such as the use of third party material in recorded lectures”.
“There has been a process of trying to harmonise copyright law across Europe…but what tends to happen with Moocs, they tend to rely on Creative Commons licences (enabling the free distribution of an otherwise copyrighted work), [so] it is possible to create resources that can be openly shared.”
Find Out the Key Benefits of a Cloud-Based Knowledge Base
It is important to acquire new tools that can help your business grow. As technology and trends evolve, your company should follow suit and your approach to your work should be altered to some degree. There are many tools available that can help you increase productivity, make management easier, and boost efficacy. Even though you might have to pay for these tools, they end up saving you money in the long run, and they also make the whole job a lot more pleasant.
"Finding additional recorded materials is a lot easier now because today's lecture capture solutions have far superior archival and tagging capabilities than they did just a few years ago. Not only do these features make it easier for faculty to find related materials for their classes, but faculty can even create customized packages for students who are specializing in particular areas or need additional help."
Video-enhanced learning tools however are relatively inexpensive to produce, can be viewed when it’s convenient and without the need for travel
Live presentations can be recorded and time stamped, so when they are used for training, managers can refer to specific sections according to relevance. This saves time and increases engagement with the subject matter.
The ease with which videos can be produced also provides companies with the ability to take control over their training processes,
People learn in different ways, but as visual beings, video is a great mechanism to illustrate soft skills, as well as aid performance management. This makes it cost effective both in terms of financial savings and minimal impact on employee productivity
Video training courses or observation recordings can also be created as needed, making it a responsive and reactive tool.
build a customized library of training tools, which can be referred back to and viewed multiple times by any number of managers and employees across a company, for as long as it is relevant.
Could it be possible that the medium we choose be more important to improve knowledge transfer than our beloved content that we can’t get under 30 slides? The answer is YES. As Marshall McLuhan, the great Media Philosopher, said in 1964: “The Medium is the Message.” Simply put, the medium in which you deploy content to your people is more important than the content. It’s actually crazy to think about! But let’s not get too caught up philosophizing and get to the point.
Since the medium can make or break your training, which medium should you choose? The answer is VIDEO. Here are the top 3 reasons to support this claim:
Alignment.
75% of Millennials visit YouTube monthly. Millennials coincidentally are going to make up 75% of the workforce by 2025
Retention and Transfer of Knowledge.
Video is the most effective medium for communicating information in a short period of time. Most people are visual learners, so combining visual examples with audio creates a higher likelihood of knowledge transfer. Studies show that humans only retain 10% of heard information after 3 days Vs 65% when visuals are added.
What is AMP? AMP is two things. AMP is a restricted subset of HTML designed to make the web fast on mobile devices. AMP is also a strategy to counter an existential threat to Google: the mobile web is in trouble and if the mobile web is in trouble then Google is in trouble.
The majority of people in education believe that video usage on campus increases student satisfaction with their learning experiences; more than nine in 10 respondents (92 percent) said just that to a recent research project on the topic.
The survey was done by Kaltura,
the results show a particular bias: The survey was taken online by those who are "prone to a positive attitude toward video" in education. Respondents consisted of 1,500 " educational professionals, staff, technologists and students," with two-thirds in higher education. Just about three-quarters (74 percent) are based in North America.
on one hand the hype is far ahead of the reality; on the other, the upside could be much bigger than we think. And in HR the opportunity for value is massive.
The systems can understand speech, identify photos, and use pattern matching to pick up signals about mood, honesty, and even personality. These algorithms are not “intuitive” like human beings, but they are fast, so they can analyze millions of pieces of information in seconds and quickly correlate them against patterns.
you could imagine an AI system that looks at ll the possible demographics, job history, and interview questions with a candidate and then “predicts” how well they will perform on the job
In employee development and learning, we really don’t know how to “train” people perfectly. The global L&D industry is over $200 billion and most learning professionals tell us that at least half this is wasted (forgotten, inappropriately applied, or just wasting peoples’ time). But we don’t know which half this is!
what if we had algorithms that monitored and studied the skills, behaviors, and activities of the highest performers in our teams and then just told us how to be more like them? These kinds of “Netflix-like” algorithms are now entering the world of learning platforms, making learning as useful and fun as watching cable TV. Again the market is young, but the opportunity is massive. Our research shows that the average employee has less than 25 minutes a week to train and learn; if we make that time more relevant everyone will perform better.
The success of an HR tool will be dependent on many things: the accuracy and completeness of its algorithms, the ease of use of its systems, but more important than all its ability to provide what is called “narrow AI” – or very specific solutions that solve your problems. This can only be done when the vendor has massive amounts of data (to train its system) and they gain lots of feedback on how well it works. So I believe the barriers to entry are going to be focus, business strategy, and client intimacy, not just having great engineers.
"Of course, a key consideration is what kind of tech students have available to them in the classroom. If they have computers, that makes it easy, but if they have tablets, portable devices, or smartphones the options are also also many. Mobile access is available for many popular CMS/LMS platforms. Mobile devices also work well with popular social media tools, some of which can also work in the classroom environment.
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Training courses, weekend intensives and pre-made video tutorials are all ways that schools can support their educators at a low cost. But most importantly, teachers need to feel supported from all areas, from administrators and colleagues to tech developers. If teachers feel as though they can make mistakes, then they will be more willing to try new things and use these failures to help refine digital learning.
New Tech Should Make a Teacher’s Life Easier
When I think about teachers working together to share digital techniques and new apps, I think of the most powerful reasons we educators are pushing on into the digital frontier.