Category Archives: Online Learning
Google’s Bard on Language Acquisition and Large Language Models
Prompt Based on your understanding of the ideas and theories of Stephen Krashen write a short presentation that Krashen might give on the possibilities offered by large language models. Bard’s Response Good morning. My name is Stephen Krashen, and I … Continue reading
Blackboard vs Canvas vs Moodle
A colleague at another university, which is contemplating a move to one of these four learning management systems, wanted to know the preferences from among this list of systems: Blackboard learn+ (http://www.blackboard.com/) Brightspace by D2L (http://www.d2l.com/) CANVAS (https://www.canvaslms.com/) Moodle (https://moodle.org/) … Continue reading
Learning Analytics
My two most recent columns as a Contributing Editor for Educational Technology explain the beginnings of my exploration of learning analytics, a topic I feel is crucial for education today. Learning about learning has the potential to help us understand not only more … Continue reading
Webinar on Ayamel
I had a great time yesterday doing a webinar on Ayamel. I have given many presentations in many different settings, but this was perhaps the most challenging. Sitting there looking at the computer screen with no visual feedback from the … Continue reading
Moving Forward with Online Learning?
I have heard rumblings that BYU Provo that BYU Provo is showing an increased interest in online learning. I will confess to mixed feelings, however, which I will admit are totally selfish… Shortly after I arrived at BYU in 1992, I visited … Continue reading
Educational Technology Bust
It seems that Apple and Pearson are about to shell out big bucks, $6.4 million to be exact for what appears to be a massive failure in supporting a tablet initiative in a thousand schools in Los Angeles: The Los Angeles Unified School … Continue reading
Storytelling and Education
I have believed for some time that good educational practice is intimately related to the notion of good storytelling. As I was reading today about this massive investment that Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, and other tech leaders are making in … Continue reading
MOOCs?
Udacity is throwing in the towel on MOOCs with the company’s founder, Sebastian Thrun, declaring that they don’t work for higher education. I described in a recent column in Educational Technology how the primary advantage of MOOCs is that they … Continue reading
LTI is Helping
We are working with with the Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) Specification in the ARCLITE Lab I direct at Brigham Young University (BYU). This article addresses the future of this specification from the IMS Global Learning Consortium: LTI Standard Promises a Kinder, … Continue reading
The Flipped Classroom: Getting Serious
For various reasons the flipped classroom is of particular interest to me. While accountability in any enterprise is one of the key elements of success. what students do outside of the classroom is one of the least accountable aspects of education … Continue reading