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The state of digital learning in higher education in British Columbia
Each year the Canadian Digital Learning Research Association (CDLRA) conducts a pan-Canadian survey of post-secondary institutions on the state of digital learning in Canada. The CDLRA is affiliated...
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More research on student modality choices
Last week I wrote about some 2022 Canadian research from the CDLRA that shows students overwhelmingly (89%) looking for greater flexibility & choice in how they access their courses. Today...
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3 tools to help you find people you follow on Twitter on Mastodon
Note: I updated this post to add a third tool, Twitodon which was suggested to me after I published the original post which only mentioned Debirdify and Fedifinder. I have had a few people asking me...
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Write a blog post with three suggestions on how teachers can use ChatGPT for...
AI-generated image from Dall-e using the prompt “A photorealistic picture of a robot professor standing at the front of a class of university students. The robot is lecturing to the students.” As a...
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The Death of Life +50 in Canada
Metal Door Lock For Security by Jennifer Bourn is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0 A large and healthy public domain of works enriches the social, intellectual, and cultural lives of Canadians. Works...
View ArticleLLM’s and open (access, data, source)
In March I wrote an op-ed for the BCcampus blog about open education and generative AI focused mostly on OER’s, but I continue to think about the relationship between open (not just education, but in...
View ArticleWant to understand how AI might change teaching & learning? Ask a math...
No, this isn’t about making an analogy between AI in the classroom and calculators. It is about Wolfram|Alpha. If you are not involved in a discipline that relies on mathematical computations, you may...
View ArticleChatGPT and Open Education
I recently wrote a blog post about generative AI and open education for the BCcampus website. I thought I would repost it here as it represents some of the things we have been considering with regard...
View ArticleCan AI turn any book into a textbook?
Back in 2014 in the early days of the BC open textbook project I did some research on what makes a textbook a textbook. What are the pedagogical aides in a textbook that make it different than, say, a...
View ArticleI’ve deleted my social-media-formerly-known-as-Twitter accounts
A short post to say that a few weeks ago I deleted my Twitter accounts. I mention this mostly because because I know there are some who use it to connect with me directly and may be confused if they...
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