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Mathieu Plourde

The Rise of Externally-Sourced Instructional Media - 0 views

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    "teaching a course using someone else's instructional media is out of alignment with the occupational model. Taken to its extreme, it  reduces the academic to the status of a "mere teacher"; no longer an "expert", and nothing grander than a K12 teacher. This is not a status or identity to which most traditional academics aspire."
Mathieu Plourde

Quitting Facebook Is The New 'I Quit TV' (You Hipster, You) - 0 views

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    "Ditching Facebook has become a new, elitist form of "conspicuous non-consumption," on par with refusing television, argues New York University assistant professor Laura Portwood-Stacer in a recent article published in the Journal of New Media and Society. Once upon a time, being on Facebook meant you were hip. Now, not having a Facebook account is the status symbol -- at least to some."
Mathieu Plourde

Open for Learning: The CMS and the Open Learning Network - 2 views

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    The course management system (CMS) reinforces the status quo and hinders substantial teaching and learning innovation in higher education. It does so by imposing artificial time limits on learner access to course content and other learners, privileging the role of the instructor at the expense of the learner, and limiting the power of the network effect in the learning process. The open learning network (OLN)-a hybrid of the CMS and the personal learning environment (PLE)-is proposed as an alternative learning technology environment with the potential to leverage the affordances of the Web to dramatically improve learning.
Mathieu Plourde

Teenagers and Abstract Thinking: Unclear on the Concept? - 0 views

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    "The frustrations teenagers experience with school are more a case of statistics and lack of experience than that of work ethic or "attitude" problems. These statistics are not tied to socioeconomic status, weight or time spent in a seat; they're genetic and experiential. We have a bell curve of abstraction and experience, and we're only beginning to think about how to honor that."
samjohns146

downrightnow - Check the status of web services and report outages - 0 views

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    For those of us that simply have to know if a site is down or up
Mathieu Plourde

The digital native question - 0 views

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    "Assumptions about young people's familiarity with technologies risk exacerbating inequality. Access to devices and connectivity isn't equal across all young people, and neither is support in developing skills - from peers, parent/carers, or schools, equally distributed. Socioeconomic status remains a key issue in relation to access, with a small but significant number of young people having very limited access."
Mathieu Plourde

Digital Accessibility Law and Regulation: Current Status and What to Do About It - 0 views

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    "Jakubowski identified some key steps institutions might take to mitigate risk and set themselves on a path for achieving accessibility success"
Mathieu Plourde

Gamification: A Better Way of Reaching Online Learners - 0 views

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    "Gamification awakens the same human instincts that drive people to compete in sports and other fun activities. These elements include: desire for competition, recognition, achievement, status and altruism"
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