Category: Online Learning
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DML Competition Final Report
The Chicago Architecture Foundation is grateful for the grant provided through the University of California, Irvine Human Research Institute in support of DesignLaunch, as part of the Digital Media and Learning: Competition VI initiative. Below, please find our answers to the questions posed. 1) Who were you addressing with your design objective? DesignLaunch is CAF’s first-ever […]
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Art and Science of Vision: Reflections
Who were you addressing with your design objective? The Art and Science of Vision team design objective worked to address San Diego-area learners, ages 13-18. The team specifically sought average students–not failing, but not entirely sure of their future academic or career paths. What are the three essential questions the field needs to answer to […]
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From Playlists To Pathways Towards Mastery
How do playlists help guide learners toward mastery? How do we map the learning pathways associated with the development of expertise and learner identities? As a learning pathway for DiscoverDesign.org and the 2017 National DiscoverDesign Competition, Design Launch will enable design novices to become familiar with the design process, work through two design challenges, and […]
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Baby Boomers to Millennial: Social Media in the Workplace
How To Bridge The Gap! Click the link to watch a short online instructional video.
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Team Course Critique – LLG 2
INTRODUCTION In this paper, you will see our team evaluations of two MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) and how we identified them with adult learning theories. We enrolled in “Rethinking Teaching, Redesigning Learning” created and delivered by OpenLearning and taught by Mohamed Amin Embi. This class focuses on revisiting traditional conception of teaching and exploring […]
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Lights, Camera, Action: Creating Content
Based on feedback from teens in the initial focus groups described in our first blog post, we’ve decided to rely on video, as much as possible, to convey information and instructions in our playlists. This has kept us busy over the past few weeks with script-writing, filming and video editing. After reviewing the focus group results, […]
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Playlist Design: Creating Partnerships and Getting Feedback
Over the past few months our team at the Providence Public Library (PPL) has been working closely together to create the three playlists for our My City, My Place DML project. Entering them into the LRNG framework and discovering the capabilities of the platform has been a great learning experience and has helped us begin […]
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Final Project Reflections
Fiona, Abby, Amir, Raul and myself are working on a digital activisim project with an emphasis on social justice this term. We have all decided to collaborate on a project that diesects the content, timing, and addressee of Dartmouth Commencement speakers from the past ten years. The end goal will be to analzye the speeches, […]
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Marine biology, astronomy, and the interconnected of the two areas
Sky, Water, Earth is a joint project between the University of British Columbia, the Vancouver Space Centre, and the Vancouver Aquarium. The playlists touch on 4 themes, which are 1) Extreme Environments: Exploring marine and terrestrial extreme environments and their roles as analogues for space-based research and exploration; 2) Water: Maintaining a healthy water system […]
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How others respond to me as a foreigner
You can be a foreigner in many ways. You don’t need to cross the Atlantic Ocean to become an outsider. In my personal experience I was a stranger many time. Sometime it has happened in my country too. The first time I moved from my small village to Rome. The second time I transferred from […]