“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
Category: Education and Learning
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…?
