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"You should check it out when you have a chance." the professional bassist slash accountant slash computer hobbiest and regular customer said as I was stocking the magazine shelves in the front of the store. "I think it's pretty cool. Yeah, it's gonna be real popular." I remember him saying. It was the early 1990's… Continue reading My closed closed mind

“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

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

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…?

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