Best Ray Lalonde Podcasts (2024)

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Thank you @OpenEdGlobal for the #OEAward2021 for the @YearsEd Project! 6:36

2+ y ago6:36

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A huge thank you to the OE Global community for awarding our project a 2021 Open Education Award of Excellence for Reuse/ Remix/ Adaptation. for the 25 Years of EdTech: The Serialized Audio Version. From the OE Global Awards team: The award was given to the project in the “Open Reuse/Remix/Adaptation” category and, according to the adjudicators, th…

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The News for October 21, 2021 30:13

2+ y ago30:13

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News about NEM: Crimson Shores, the next Spinward Fringe novel and what I'm doing to prepare, and a special hello to Triton-Con Cardiff.

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The Blog for August 28 2021 1:53

2+ y ago1:53

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This is the narration for the latest blog post on www.randolphlalonde.com where I talk about the release of the first Spinward Fringe Audio book!

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Between the Chapters: Retrospective - THE END! 28:34

3y ago28:34

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This 25 Years of Ed Tech Audio Project has been a blast! Thanks to all of the community: Readers of the chapters Guests for the "Between the Chapters" book club episodes The community of listeners Martin Weller -- who let us remix his book! We appreciate ALL of you and are grateful for your contributions in this @YearsEd audiobook project. Thanks y…

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Conclusions: Reclaiming Ed Tech 21:47

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Having surveyed one particular take on 25 years of ed tech, it is now possible to synthesize some generalities. In this chapter, several themes arising from the analysis of this history will be proposed, and then some suggestions regarding what this means for the next 25 years of ed tech will be proffered. Read by Martin Weller.…

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Between the Chapters #25: searching for the commons in the wasteland with @savasavasava & @audreywatters 49:36

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For Between the Chapters episode, Laura is in conversation with Audrey Watters and sava saheli singh to navigate these troubling waters of educational technology. This episode swirls around the ed tech’s dystopian storm from Chapter 25; however, we all agreed there are many dark aspects from previous chapters and years prior to hit the fever pitch …

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Chapter 25: 2018 Ed Tech's Dystopian Turn 19:33

3y ago19:33

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For this final year of the 25, a trend rather than a technology is the focus. There is in much of ed tech a growing divide, particularly in evidence at conferences. One camp is largely uncritical, seeing ed tech as a sort of Silicon Valley-inspired, technological utopia that will cure all of education’s problems. This is often a reflection-free zon…

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Between the Chapters #24: beyond the blockchain buzz with @dkernohan 40:03

3y ago40:03

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For this Between the Chapter episode, Laura chats with David Kernohan about the blockchain and other odd things happening around the year 2017: Chapter 24. This episode will not explain what the blockchain is, but take a broad perspective about the times, questioning trust, and changing of systems. Spoiler Alert: We don’t want to crush your hopes a…

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BONUS: #OERxDomains21 Panel: OER & the @YearsEd Project 24:16

3y ago24:16

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In contemporary journalism, if a news story is described as “having legs” it means it has the ability to evolve and remain relevant over a long period of time to a wide community. This concept of “having legs” can also be applied to the creation of OER as there is an embedded assumption by the creator of a work that, by assigning an open license to…

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Chapter 24: 2017 Blockchain 19:25

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Of all the technologies covered in this book, blockchain is perhaps the most perplexing, both in how it works and in terms of its purpose in education. I include it because it received a lot of attention, but also because it is indicative of the type of hype that surrounds a new technology that does not seem to address a clear need. Read by Carolin…

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Between the Chapters #23 looking in the black box of A.I. with @hypervisible 43:05

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In this episode of Between the Chapters, Laura chats with Chris Gilliard about artificial intelligence (A.I.) in educational technology from Chapter 23 of Martin’s book. If you don’t follow the prolific Twitter account of @hybervisible -- you should. He’s been railing against the broad, sweeping claims ed tech vendors make about A.I. and outcomes o…

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Chapter 23: 2016 The Return of Artificial Intelliegence 12:44

3y ago12:44

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is an interesting case study in ed tech, combining several themes that have already arisen in this book: promise versus reality, the cyclical nature of ed tech, and the increasingly thorny ethical issues raised by its application. Read by Maha Bali. Read the chapter and see a list of all the book references on the Athab…

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Between the Chapters #22 open credentials & digital badges with @catspyjamasnz 38:20

3y ago38:20

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For this Between the Chapters episode, Laura chats with Joyce Seitzinger about all things badged connected to Chapter 22: Digital Badges. In reflecting back to 2015, we have much to say about microcredential, open badges, and what it means to get digital street cred based on a certificate, credential, course, or training. We share how we have been …

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Chapter 22: 2015 Digital Badges 11:26

3y ago11:26

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Digital badges are a good example of how ed tech evolves when several other technologies, such as those that we have seen in this book, make the environment favourable for their implementation. Badges allow for a more fine-grained representation of skills and experience gained in formal education than a degree classification. In this, they are an e…

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Between the Chapters #21 analyzing the metrics & data in learning with @ammienoot & @dgasevic 47:31

3y ago47:31

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For Between the Chapters episode for Chapter #21 (2014), Laura is joined by Anne-Marie Scott and Dragan Gašević to talk about learning analytics (LA). This conversation outlines a definition of LA, in terms of higher education -- for practice, within products in ed tech, for online learning/teaching, and evidence-based research. There are so many i…

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Chapter 21: 2014 Learning Analytics 15:51

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Data, data, data. It’s the new oil and the new driver of capitalism, war, and politics, so inevitably its role in education would come to the fore. Interest in analytics is driven by the increased amount of time that students spend in online learning environments, particularly LMS and MOOC, but also the increased data available across a university,…

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Between the Chapters #20 opening up a textbook & more access to learning with @acoolidge 41:24

3y ago41:24

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In this episode of @YearsEd Between the Chapters, Laura chats with Amanda Coolidge about open educational resources (OERs) and the open textbooks. Listen to this book club chat about Chapter 20 (2013): Open Textbooks as we talk about localization of OERs for all teaching and learning classrooms around the world. It’s more than just digital or a pla…

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Chapter 20: 2013 Open Textbooks 12:57

3y ago12:57

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If MOOC were the glamorous side of open education, claiming all the headlines and sweeping predictions, then open textbooks were the practical, even dowdy, application. An extension of the OER movement, and particularly pertinent in the United States and Canada, open textbooks provided openly licensed versions of bespoke written textbooks, with the…

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Between the Chapters #19 more about MOOCs with @sukainaw, @davecormier & @RMoeJo 56:34

3y ago56:34

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For this episode of @YearsEd Between the Chapters, Laura chats about almost everything related to the acronym MOOC: Massive Open Online Course with Sukaina Walji, Dave Cormier, and Rolin Moe. We dive into The Year of the MOOC (2012) and Chapter 19 of Martin’s book to share how we stumbled upon MOOCs in our work, research, teaching, and learning lif…

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Chapter 19: 2012 MOOC 19:12

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Inevitably, the selection for 2012 is massive open online courses, or MOOC, with The New York Times declaring it “the year of the MOOC” (Pappano, 2012). We have looked at the roots of MOOC in the explorations of connectivist approaches, but more broadly the MOOC phenomenon can be viewed as the combination of several preceding technologies: some of …

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Between the Chapters #18 @vconnecting with @rjhogue, @bali_maha, @autumm, @friedelitis & @hj_dewaard 51:23

3y ago51:23

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In this Between the Chapters episode, Laura talks to the co-directors of Virtually Connecting -- Maha Bali, Autumm Caines, Helen DeWaard, Christian Friedrich, and Rebecca Hogue about all the things related to networked learning. This group unpacks the differences between personal learning environments (PLEs) and personal learning networks (PLNs), t…

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Chapter 18: 2011 Personal Learning Environments 12:52

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Personal Learning Environments (PLE) were an outcome of the proliferation of services that suddenly became available following the Web 2.0 boom, combined with the thinking around distributed learning that we looked at in the previous chapter. Learners and educators began to gather a set of tools to realize a number of functions. The collection of t…

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Between the Chapters #17 connecting the dots to connectivism with @tanbob 33:09

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For this Between the Chapters, Laura connects the dots to all things connectivism with Tanis Morgan. In reflecting on how Connectivism (Chapter 17) showed up in 2010, they reflect on the disconnects and missed opportunities, plus what it means to deal with a “pedagogy of abundance” today. This mega theory/framework/ideology/whatever you want to cal…

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Chapter 17: 2010 Connectivism 15:55

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As we saw earlier, the initial enthusiasm for e-learning led to several pedagogies being resurrected or adopted to meet the new potential of the digital, networked context. Constructivism, problem-based learning, and resource-based learning all saw renewed interest as educators sought to harness the possibility of abundant content and networked lea…

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Between the Chapters #16 being in community on Twitter & social media with @suebecks & @chrissinerantzi 51:14

3y ago51:14

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For this Between the Chapters, Laura welcomes Sue Beckingham and Chrissi Nerantzi to talk about all things related to Twitter and Social Media from Chapter 16. Reflecting back to our use of the mediums to be social and talk with educators, learners, researchers, and more -- we see how these public, open spaces have changed and challenged us over th…

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Chapter 16: 2009 Twitter and Social Media 18:27

3y ago18:27

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If the Learning Management System (LMS) represents the dominant educational technology, then Twitter is the behemoth of third-party tech that has been adopted in education. There’s too much that can be said about Twitter to do the subject justice in a short chapter, and most people will have their own views on its role in education, but it would be…

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Between the Chapters #15 curating e-portfolios with @orna_farrell & @drdavidwicks 55:42

3y ago55:42

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In this episode of Between the Chapters of @YearsEd, Laura dives deep into the land of e-portfolios with Orna Farrell and David Wicks. We chat about sharing standards/competencies, reflecting on learning, and thinking about how to share practical inquiries in portfolio format for the topics of 2008 & Chapter 15: E-Portfolios. We define what e-portf…

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Chapter 15: 2008 E-Portfolios 12:27

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E-portfolios provide a digital means of gathering together a range of outputs, assessments, and resources for a student. The argument for e-portfolios is a compelling one — they provide a place to store all the evidence a learner gathers to exhibit learning, both formal and informal, in order to support lifelong learning and career development. It …

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Between the Chapters #14 getting a Second Life & Virtual World living with @janesaid6 & @grantpotter 51:59

3y ago51:59

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In this episode of Between the Chapters of @YearsEd, Laura talks to Sarah Frick and Grant Potter about Second Life, Virtual Words, role-playing and more! In reflecting back to 2007 in Chapter 14, we talk about how these virtual spaces impacted our working, teaching, learning, and personal lives. This chapter pokes at ways we can play, create, and e…

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Chapter 14: 2007 Second Life 9:25

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While Virtual Worlds had been around for a number of years, 2007 marked a peak in interest by educators to the environments and, specifically, Second Life. While much of the experimentation in education within Second Life often failed to do more than recreate existing structures and pedagogies that occurred in the "real world", Second Life has pave…

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Between the Chapters #13 connecting to Web 2.0 past with @alexpickett & @BryanAlexander 38:32

3y ago38:32

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For this Between the Chapters episode, Laura welcomes Bryan Alexander and Alexandra Pickett to discuss Chapter 13 (2006) web 2.0 and all the user-generated experiences this technology brought for teaching, learning, and more! We talk about the experimentation days of Web 2.0, the connections we made to peers, and the challenges we’re seeing over a …

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Chapter 13: 2006 Web 2.0 14:48

3y ago14:48

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In 2006, the hype about Web 2.0 reaches a fever pitch. Everything was suddenly "2.0" to indicate a new and improved version. Ed Tech and higher education were not immune, with 2.0 things becoming so ubiquitous that the term soon became irrelevant and a joke. So, for something that has become something of a joke, what lessons can educators take away…

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BONUS: Meta Pod with @laurapasquini, @edtechfactotum, & @mweller 28:12

3y ago28:12

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In this bonus episode of “Between the Chapters” Martin, Clint, and Laura take a pause to get meta -- it’s a podcast about the podcast. We share about our audio labour of love, specifically as we discover what it means to augment text to audio and how to share an aural history of ed tech through these episodic personal/professional reflections. Inno…

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Between the Chapters #12 talking videos with @readywriting 49:03

3y ago49:03

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On this episode of Between the Chapters, Laura talks with Lee Skallerup Bessette about how the video killed the teaching pedagogical star. Chapter 12: Videos (2005) brings up all the thoughts on how we weave media into teaching and learning. We talk about how we moved from film strips, TV, and videos … to the world of production and presentation we…

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Chapter 12: 2005 Video 12:42

3+ y ago12:42

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While video has a long history of use in education, it was the advent of YouTube in 2005 combined with an increasingly Do-It-Yourself participatory culture attitude and the decrease in costs in video production equipment that ushered in a new era of video use in education and enabled new pedagogical models of teaching & learning, such as the flippe…

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Between the Chapters #11 sharing about OER & our open practices with @judyphalet, @catherinecronin, @vrodes, & @marendeepwell 1:14:24

3+ y ago1:14:24

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For this Between the Chapters episode, I have a 2-part conversation about open educational resources (OER) with Part I Judith Pete and Catherine Cronin, and then Part II with Virginia Rodés and Maren Deepwell. This extended episode dives into topics from Chapter 11 and beyond as we talk about practices, tensions, and context for OER around the worl…

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Chapter 11: 2004 OER 16:32

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M.I.T. is credited with the first large scale Open Education Resource (OER) project with the launch of their Open Courseware initiative in 2002. Since then, OER's have become something of a success story in education with OER projects and educators still pushing the concept forward and into mainstream adoption. This chapter explores some of the ear…

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Between the Chapters #10 blogging with @bonstewart & @edtechfactotum 49:11

3+ y ago49:11

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In this episode of Between the Chapters Laura chats with Bonnie Stewart and Clint Lalonde about their blogging journey. We reflect on the posts we’ve written, the community of bloggers, and what it means related to Chapter 10: Blogs. Initially the affinity of “bloggers” connected a number of educators and academics to meet up at conferences and mak…

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Chapter 10 2003 Blogs 14:47

3+ y ago14:47

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Although blogs were not a technology developed specifically for education, it did not take long for educators and academics to realize the benefits associated with blogging. These ranged from the development of academic identities, quicker and more accessible dissemination of research findings, and the development of professional networks. But like…

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Between the Chapters #9 resistance & care for the LMS with @OnlineCrsLady, @brennacgray & @carolak 48:23

3+ y ago48:23

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In this Between the Chapters episode Laura talks with Laura Gibbs, Brenna Clarke Gray, and Caroline Kuhn about Chapter 9: The Learning Management System (LMS). The panel of this episode rejects how the LMS is not “linky” and how closed LMS constrains both the learner and educator from engaging online. But we also caution against how this LMS hub ha…

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Chapter 9: 2002 Learning Management Systems (LMS) 12:18

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Without a doubt, the dominant educational technology in use today in most educational institutions is the Learning Management System (LMS) or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). Despite repeated calls over the years by educators for the end of the one size fits all LMS/VLE, it has, like the institutions it serves, proved to be resilient and hard to…

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Between the Chapters #8 reflecting on eLearning Standards with @LornaMCampbell & @philbarker 43:10

3+ y ago43:10

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For this Between the Chapters book club episode, Laura is joined by Lorna Campbell and Phil Barker to talk about E-Learning Standards from Chapter 8 of Martin’s book. They discuss how learning resources were a challenge to define and became a challenge to standardize, as Phil said: “We have to remember that learning is not something that’s delivere…

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Chapter 8: 2001 eLearning Standards 14:47

3+ y ago14:47

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Metadata, SCORM, LTI. This chapter takes a look at the year 2001 when technical standards for the creation of interoperable learning content emerged.By Martin Weller & Friends

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Between the Chapters #7 searching for learning objects with @brlamb, @realdlnorman, & @kavubob 38:02

3+ y ago38:02

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In this Between the Chapters episode Laura talks with Brian Lamb, D’Arcy Norman, and John Robertson about Chapter 7: Learning Objects. We learn about Brian and D’Arcy’s “meet cute” over moveable objects requests for repositories, and how John and others see learning objects as OERs with an open license. And see how some of these early tools, platfo…

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Chapter 7: 2000 Learning Objects 13:21

3+ y ago13:21

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Did Learning Objects succeed, or did they fail? Why did something that seemed to have such a compelling argument for their development seem to sputter in implementation? Read by Brian Lamb.By Martin Weller & Friends

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Between the Chapters #6 e-learning like it's 1999 with @blacktimelord 37:43

3+ y ago37:43

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In this week’s Between the Chapters episode, Laura chats with Kelvin Bentley about all things e-Learning based on Martin’s Chapter 6: e-Learning. These reflections discuss how far e-Learning has and hasn’t come now that many higher ed institutions are being challenged during the pandemic, and what distance education will continue to look like post-…

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Chapter 6: 1999 E-Learning 13:37

3+ y ago13:37

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It could be argued that, at the turn of the last century, E-Learning ushered in a golden age of education technology with educators experimenting with numerous models and technologies to facilitate learning using the internet as the primary distribution and connective network. E-Learning is read by Angela Gunder.…

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Between the Chapters: #5 collaborating in wikis with @guzdial 36:51

3+ y ago36:51

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This episode is targeted at Chapter 5: Wikis, but really we talk even more about how we create collaborative learning experiences, empower learners to contribute to their own courses, and how knowledge can be co-created in our educational spaces. Here are a few things we mentioned in the episode - enjoy: Squeak/Smalltalk Recognizing and supporting …

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Chapter 5: 1998 Wikis 13:38

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1998 is the year of the Wiki. With its roots in the hippie culture of California, the wiki was one of the first collaborative web platforms that led to the rise of a web that was not only consumable by anyone, but also writeable by anyone, and led to the development of one of the most popular collaborative websites in the world in Wikipedia. This c…

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Between the Chapters: #4 deconstructing constructivism with @Jessifer 35:51

3+ y ago35:51

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In this Between the Chapters episode, Laura chats with Jesse Stommel about constructivism (Chapter 4) and everything in the universe of education. We work through Jesse’s detest of “scaffolding” and praise for the Dewey’s ideas from over a hundred years ago. You’ll hear what we’re thinking about being more student-centered to move us outside of cur…

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