“Educational Technologist”, what type of job functions does that title bring to mind? Would instructors ask an Educational Technologist for assistance in assuring their curriculum aligns with their online content? Would an instructor ask an EdTech to help design an online or hybrid course? Probably not. Instructors ask EdTechs to fix their Moodle Grade Center,… Continue reading The fuzzy boundaries of an EdTech’s job function
Author: HKKS Education
Ken, the author of these posts, has been an Educator for 20 odd years teaching in Canada as well as 13 years in Japan and a short stint in India. He has an M.Ed. in distance education and is always staying current by teaching university courses, helping instructors design their blended and online courses and taking courses. He has just received his Blackboard Certified Specialist in Digital Teaching and two other Blackboard certificates. Keep on learnin'!
How to succeed in Online Learning
Online learning is growing and more people find out that although it offers the wonderful flexibility of both time and space it is not easy to complete a course. I'm not talking about an eLearning training course which you can blitz through in a few hours, I'm talking about a week or month long course… Continue reading How to succeed in Online Learning
If Amazon’s Alexa is not a “she”, “he”, or ‘it” then what is sh…h…i…?
When talking about AI it causes me to pause in conversation. When I speak about Alexa, robots, and Google Assistant I do a pronoun pause. Being an ESL teacher for 20 years that causes me some concern. We all know that using “it” is reserved for inanimate, or lifeless things, and AI things are just that, lifeless things.… Continue reading If Amazon’s Alexa is not a “she”, “he”, or ‘it” then what is sh…h…i…?
Self-Regulation Help Builds the Skills Required for the Future
Klaus Schwab’s (2016) Fourth Industrial Revolution outlines what skills future employees and entrepreneurs should possess: “In the Forum’s Future of Jobs report, we asked the chief human resources officers of today’s largest employers in 10 industries and 15 economies to imagine the impact on employment, jobs and skills up to the year 2020…survey respondents believe… Continue reading Self-Regulation Help Builds the Skills Required for the Future
Plex server and Chromecast always buffering? Try this remedy
I could not stream any media from my computer through Plex and Chromecast - it was constantly buffering. After playing with all the settings in the Plex server (there's not much to fiddle with in Chromecast), I found that nothing improved the constant buffering. Then I tried this: Make sure your WiFi router is set… Continue reading Plex server and Chromecast always buffering? Try this remedy
