Demanding kinder classrooms doesn’t make you a snowflake
Daniel Heath Justice writes about conservative critiques of “student ‘snowflakes’—represented as terminology-obsessed, identity-focused, emotionally overwrought busybodies.”
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Cyberlearning Community Report: The state of cyberlearning and the future of learning with technology
This report highlights examples of work that draws on innovations in learning science and computer science.
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ComPAIR: A new online tool using adaptive comparative judgement to support learning with peer feedback
This research article looks at ComPAIR, an online peer assessment and feedback tool developed at UBC that allows students to evaluate, comment, and rank peers’ submissions.
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Digital Media and Learning Conference (DML) 2017 keynote – danah boyd – Learning all the wrong things
In this keynote speech, danah boyd looks at the topic of young people using social media.
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Skills, competencies and credentials
Alan Harrison looks at how universities can better prepare and showcase students’ skills for the workplace in this research document.
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OER: The future of education is open
This article looks at the Open Educational Resources movement, and how it, while still relatively new, “continues to have a significant impact on students, faculty, and the way teaching is occurring.”
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Quantum leaps we can expect in teaching and learning in the digital age – a roadmap
Stephen Downes explores innovation and technology that is impacting teaching and learning currently and could do so over the next five years.
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UBC students can now study the human brain using holograms
UBC has teamed up with Microsoft Garage to develop an interactive teaching tool that gives students a new way to visualize the brain’s 3D structure.
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Game changer: Virtual reality program to transform how students learn about the human body
This article looks at a virtual reality program being developed at Colorado State University.
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Student digital experience tracker 2017
This report from Jisc summarizes findings from a survey of 22,000 students in the United Kingdom regarding digital technologies.
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