Professional Development of Teachers: Use of ICT for Capacity BuildingDrSK Pulist
Professional Development and Capacity Building of Teachers and Teacher Educators with the hlep of Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
This presentation discusses some key issues relevant to e-learning. Attention is given to issues such as new literacies, forms of e-learning, web 2.0, mobile learning, developing world.
Professional Development of Teachers: Use of ICT for Capacity BuildingDrSK Pulist
Professional Development and Capacity Building of Teachers and Teacher Educators with the hlep of Use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT)
This presentation discusses some key issues relevant to e-learning. Attention is given to issues such as new literacies, forms of e-learning, web 2.0, mobile learning, developing world.
Organizations nowadays are expanding both regionally and internationally, and have to adopt to new ways of working, especially field-work requires enormous flexibility and mobility from employees. Thus, this has created difficulties for companies to gather employees together in order to train, develop and communicate at the same time. E-learning may be the solution for this problem.
By enhancing knowledge skills and know-how to employees, where in particular the employee has control over and personally customized whether what, when, where and how he/she learns.
E-Learning: Challenges and Research Opportunities Using Machine Learning & Da...eraser Juan José Calderón
E-Learning: Challenges and Research Opportunities Using Machine Learning & Data Analytics
de ABDALLAH MOUBAYED 1 , MOHAMMADNOOR INJADAT1 , ALI BOU NASSIF2 , HANAN LUTFIYYA3 , AND ABDALLAH SHAMI1 1Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Western University, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada 2Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates 3Computer Science Department, Western University, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada Corresponding author: Abdallah Moubayed (amoubaye@uwo.ca)
ABSTRACT
With the proliferation of technology, the field of e-learning has garnered significant attention in recent times. This is because it has allowed users from around the world to learn and access new information. This has added to the growing amount of collected data that is already being generated through different devices and sensors employed around the world. This has led to the need to analyze collected data and extract useful information from it. Machine learning (ML) and data analytics (DA) are proposed techniques that can help extract information and find valuable patterns within the collected data. In this paper, the field of e-learning is investigated in terms of definitions and characteristics. Moreover, the various challenges facing the different participants within this process are discussed. In addition, some of the works proposed in the literature to tackle these challenges are presented. Then, a brief survey about some of the most popular ML and DA techniques is given. Finally, some of the research opportunities available that employ such techniques are proposed to give insights into the areas that merit further exploration and investigation.
Challenges faced by administrators, faculty and learners in E-LearningRamesh C. Sharma
This is of interest to educators, administrators, students, and community members who value the importance of integrating technology into the curriculum to improve instruction and learning. Online learning involves various skills on the part of the instructor and learner. These include social and communication skills, social networking, independent learning strategies, critical and higher order thinking skills, creativity, and effective online and face-to-face facilitation. In addition, there are may challenges that the educators, administrators, students, and community members face. (..CO11)
Reaching Younger Distance Learners through Technology & Social Media, Indones...Dimas Prasetyo
Presented in The 5th Partners Meeting of the "Academic of ICT Essential fo Goverment Leaders" held by APCICT-ESCAP
www.unapcict.org/
http://www.ut.ac.id
To Analyze the Potential of e-Learning in Indian Education System
e-Learning is defined as acquisition of knowledge and skill using electronic technologies such as computer, Internet, local and wide area networks.
e-Learning may also be referred as the use of Information and Communication Technology to deliver learning and training programs to enhance and support the tertiary education.
For more details please visit
www.iicecollege.com
e Learning is the most impacting and cost effective method of training available for organizations today. HR professionals can improve their efficiency and effectiveness of training programs they conduct by adopting e Learning.
According to the newest concepts, thanks to the Internet, our work and social life have been radically transformed, as well as have changed our instruction scheme. Technology is now a guiding principle in modern education. Do we forget about the human touch?
Moreover, this progress in technology not only puts an emotional impact on the users who directly have access to information, but also generates countless access to education around the world.
Teaching resources are now reachable virtually to everyone very often for no fee.
Does existing know-how use the human touch or education has just become a technical structure?
Social Teaching Strategies for Engaging Today's Active LearnerJason Rhode
The prevalence and widespread use of social media tools make possible a seemingly endless array of ways to share ideas and build new knowledge. During this keynote presentation on March 29, 2013 at Western Illinois University Symposium on Teaching, Research, and Creative Activities by Jason Rhode, we considered how students today are using social media in their daily lives and explore together how social media can be used to actively engage students in the learning process, both in and outside the classroom. A social teaching framework was shared as well as principles and best practices for leveraging social media in teaching and learning. Participants were encouraged to bring their own device to actively participate in the conversation!
Online and mobile versions of the handout accompanying the slides is available at http://j.mp/socialteaching
Session hashtag, for tweeting or other social media uses: #socialteaching
Organizations nowadays are expanding both regionally and internationally, and have to adopt to new ways of working, especially field-work requires enormous flexibility and mobility from employees. Thus, this has created difficulties for companies to gather employees together in order to train, develop and communicate at the same time. E-learning may be the solution for this problem.
By enhancing knowledge skills and know-how to employees, where in particular the employee has control over and personally customized whether what, when, where and how he/she learns.
E-Learning: Challenges and Research Opportunities Using Machine Learning & Da...eraser Juan José Calderón
E-Learning: Challenges and Research Opportunities Using Machine Learning & Data Analytics
de ABDALLAH MOUBAYED 1 , MOHAMMADNOOR INJADAT1 , ALI BOU NASSIF2 , HANAN LUTFIYYA3 , AND ABDALLAH SHAMI1 1Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Western University, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada 2Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates 3Computer Science Department, Western University, London, ON N6A 3K7, Canada Corresponding author: Abdallah Moubayed (amoubaye@uwo.ca)
ABSTRACT
With the proliferation of technology, the field of e-learning has garnered significant attention in recent times. This is because it has allowed users from around the world to learn and access new information. This has added to the growing amount of collected data that is already being generated through different devices and sensors employed around the world. This has led to the need to analyze collected data and extract useful information from it. Machine learning (ML) and data analytics (DA) are proposed techniques that can help extract information and find valuable patterns within the collected data. In this paper, the field of e-learning is investigated in terms of definitions and characteristics. Moreover, the various challenges facing the different participants within this process are discussed. In addition, some of the works proposed in the literature to tackle these challenges are presented. Then, a brief survey about some of the most popular ML and DA techniques is given. Finally, some of the research opportunities available that employ such techniques are proposed to give insights into the areas that merit further exploration and investigation.
Challenges faced by administrators, faculty and learners in E-LearningRamesh C. Sharma
This is of interest to educators, administrators, students, and community members who value the importance of integrating technology into the curriculum to improve instruction and learning. Online learning involves various skills on the part of the instructor and learner. These include social and communication skills, social networking, independent learning strategies, critical and higher order thinking skills, creativity, and effective online and face-to-face facilitation. In addition, there are may challenges that the educators, administrators, students, and community members face. (..CO11)
Reaching Younger Distance Learners through Technology & Social Media, Indones...Dimas Prasetyo
Presented in The 5th Partners Meeting of the "Academic of ICT Essential fo Goverment Leaders" held by APCICT-ESCAP
www.unapcict.org/
http://www.ut.ac.id
To Analyze the Potential of e-Learning in Indian Education System
e-Learning is defined as acquisition of knowledge and skill using electronic technologies such as computer, Internet, local and wide area networks.
e-Learning may also be referred as the use of Information and Communication Technology to deliver learning and training programs to enhance and support the tertiary education.
For more details please visit
www.iicecollege.com
e Learning is the most impacting and cost effective method of training available for organizations today. HR professionals can improve their efficiency and effectiveness of training programs they conduct by adopting e Learning.
According to the newest concepts, thanks to the Internet, our work and social life have been radically transformed, as well as have changed our instruction scheme. Technology is now a guiding principle in modern education. Do we forget about the human touch?
Moreover, this progress in technology not only puts an emotional impact on the users who directly have access to information, but also generates countless access to education around the world.
Teaching resources are now reachable virtually to everyone very often for no fee.
Does existing know-how use the human touch or education has just become a technical structure?
Social Teaching Strategies for Engaging Today's Active LearnerJason Rhode
The prevalence and widespread use of social media tools make possible a seemingly endless array of ways to share ideas and build new knowledge. During this keynote presentation on March 29, 2013 at Western Illinois University Symposium on Teaching, Research, and Creative Activities by Jason Rhode, we considered how students today are using social media in their daily lives and explore together how social media can be used to actively engage students in the learning process, both in and outside the classroom. A social teaching framework was shared as well as principles and best practices for leveraging social media in teaching and learning. Participants were encouraged to bring their own device to actively participate in the conversation!
Online and mobile versions of the handout accompanying the slides is available at http://j.mp/socialteaching
Session hashtag, for tweeting or other social media uses: #socialteaching
ASAC Presentation for 2015 WSHETC (Final)Dave Dean
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Final presentation for Chuck Eesley's 'venture lab' Stanford online course on technology entrepreneurship.
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Integrating ICT in TVET for Effective Technology Enabled LearningGreig Krull
Integrating ICT in TVET for Effective Technology Enabled Learning Presentation at the ICT and FET Partnership Conference, Emperors Palace, Johannesburg, 18-19 March 2013.
Enabling and enhancing student learning and support through technologyJisc
A presentation from Connect More 2020 by Peter Francis, deputy vice-chancellor, Northumbria University.
In recent months universities have rapidly implemented significant and often unplanned changes to the ways in which education is delivered. In large part, the nature of such changes will be temporary, although the significance of such changes may be longer lasting.
But this has also allowed universities to explore opportunities that otherwise may not have been considered. One can foresee that many universities will need to focus more time and energy on their approach to technology for student learning, and as a result their digital leadership. Yet technology on its own is not the solution; it is an enabler.
In this session Peter will reflect briefly on his own institution's journey towards technology-enhanced learning and support, one that encompasses a broad array of technological developments, and involved many colleagues and students, the aim of which is the delivery of a high-quality and inclusive student experience for all.
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Recap of business plan development; Detail your e-learning project goals; Describe critical competencies; Outline your project; Validate with major stakeholders
The 4th Annual eLearning Innovators Conference & Expo (ELICE), an international conference for mobile educators, researchers, innovators & leaders, was held between 12th-16th September at KICD in Nairobi. This year's event attracted over 300 delegates during the five day event.
The 2016 theme, Powering Growth, saw us kick off conversations about mobile learning, competency based learning and digital literacy. From key notes - on gamification in learning, collaboratively building capacity for financial inclusion and using big data to empower decision making and M&E - to workshops and a networking mixer; the conference was a great opportunity to discover and discuss trends in the industry, network and build potential partnerships. www.elice.co
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
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Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
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2. #1
You have joined an institution that is focused on
“expanding opportunities for personal transformation
through excellence in learning” (EWU Mission Statement)
2
3. EWU Mission
EWU expands opportunities for personal transformation through
excellence in learning.
EWU achieves this mission by:
• fostering excellence in learning through quality academic programs, undergraduate
and graduate student research and individual student-faculty interaction. Students
extend their learning beyond the classroom through co-curricular programs, life
skills development, internship programs, volunteering and service learning.
• creating environments for personal transformation that enrich the lives of
individuals, families, communities and society at large.
• expanding opportunity for all students by providing critical access to first generation
students, underserved populations, place-bound students, and other students who
may not have the opportunity for higher education.
• developing faculty and staff by growing and strengthening an intellectual community
and supporting professional development.
3
4. Distance, Online, Technology Use
4
EWU Strategic Plan - Institution of Innovation
Actions:
• Utilize eLearning to offer degree Programs/Certificates
• Expand faculty use of technology
Metrics:
• Number of new programs/degrees for online/hybrid delivery that meet regional
and statewide needs
• Number of certificate and program training options offered through the Virtual
College
5. Distance, Online, Technology Use
5
EWU Strategic Plan - Institution of Innovation
Goal: 30% of EWU course offerings, available via fully online
or blended delivery modes
7. #2
• While information technology (IT) is the medium through
which disruption of the academic enterprise is taking
place that disruption is not about IT. … What is most
important for higher education is the transformation of
teaching and learning. The “techies” are indeed
backstage, making things happen, but the “stars” on the
stage are the faculty and instructors. This revolution is
not about IT. It is about teaching and learning.” – Brian
Voss, 2013
9. #3 Areas of Focus
• How do I teach using
technology?
• How do I teach online
or in hybrid/blended?
• How does the tool
work?
• Why isn’t the tool
working?
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Academic Affairs Information Technology
12. Infrastructure &
Communications Services
Karl Riel
Data Center Services
Matt Brown
Technical Support Services
Eric Rux
Security Services
Colin Turnbull
Project Management
Services
Vacant
Greg Crary
Chief Technology/
Security Officer
Enterprise Application
Support Services
John Kissack
Application Development
Services
Danny Messina
Decision Support &
Business Intelligence Services
Todd Hoffman
Database Administration
Services
Matt Brown
Web Server
Administration Services
Matt Brown
Vacant
Associate Chief
Technology Officer
Instructional Technology
Services
Jeff Healy
Technology Training
Services
Dave Dean
Director
Administrative and
Budget Services
Budget &
Administration Services
Denise Campitelli
Executive Associate to
the Vice President
Gary L. Pratt
Vice President for
Information Technology
and Chief Information
Officer
Design & Development
Services
Jeff Healy
Enterprise Infrastructure and
Technology Services
Instructional Technologies,
Design, Development and
Decision Support Services
Identity Management
Services
Matt Brown
Information Technology
14. Partners in Student and Faculty Success
Virtual Campus
Pedagogy, Cognition,
Educational Theory
Curriculum Design
Standards
Rubrics
Methods of instruction online
and in the classroom
Classroom management
strategies
Investigation of new
instructional methods
Collaboratively
Curriculum & Instructional Design
Development of standards & practices in
the use of instructional technology
Access to Scholarly Resources
Instructional Tech & Design Consultations
Faculty Development
- Summer Faculty Boot Camp
- Fall Teaching and Technology Sampler
- Spring Teaching and Technology
Showcase
Canvas
Instructional Technology, Design
and Development Services
Technology Tools for Teaching and
Learning:
– Canvas operations
– Media (Photos, Movies – Tegrity,
iMovie, Windows Movie Maker)
– Web Conferencing
– Voice and Video Conferencing
– Streaming Media
– Plagiarism Detection
– Online Test Authoring
– iTunes University
– Blogs, Wikis, Social Tools
– Collaboration (Google Docs)
– Tablet Computing
Other Services
– Visual & Graphic Design
– Photography
– Learning Analytics
– Infographic
– Investigation of and Setting Standards
for new instructional & classroom
technology
15. #3 Cases
What Inst Tech
Team
Virtual
Campus
Enhance my face-2-face instruction w/ technology Primary
Instructional methods consultation Primary
Use and best practices of technology tools Both Both
Consulting regarding selection of instructional design
construct
Primary
Help with photography and instructional media Both Both
Hybrid and online program and course development Primary
Physical instructional space design help Primary
Acquire and test new technologies Primary
18. #4 Involvement in Advisory Role
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Academic Systems
Advisory Committee
Education Sub-committee
Responsible for the investigation
and recommendations related
to instruction, classroom
and pedagogic issues, and
distance education delivery
and pedagogy
Standards for teaching in a blended or fully
online format
Course design & development service and
support for technology-based or enhanced
classes
Faculty development activities
Instructional technologies employed in online
and hybrid courses (for example, LMS)
Research/development of new pedagogic
techniques related to technology
Technology Sub-committee
Responsible for the investigation
and recommendations
related to technology
Faculty Computer Replacement Program
Administrative systems
Technical support
Training and development – in support of
office and administrative systems
Software licensing
Software/Hardware Recommendations
Hardware Recommendations
Classroom and laboratory technology
Research and development of new
technologies related to pedagogy
19. What’s Next – FY14
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9
• Partner to provide teaching and technology events
• Development of online programs with a US West Coast
and Pacific Northwest reach
• Continued development of scholarship and thought
based around the new paradigms of higher education
• Develop learner analytics to support student success
• Deploy Faculty Technology Innovation Lab
20. #5 Who to Call…
Ben P. Meredith, Ed.D.
Executive Director, Online and
Off-Campus Programs
(Virtual Campus)
359-6010
Dave Dean, Ph.D.
Director, Instructional Technology,
Design, Development and
Decision Support Services
359-2256
Editor's Notes
BEN: On behalf of Dave Dean and myself, I would like to welcome you to the EWU New Faculty eLearning Workshop. Over the next few days, you will be a part of ongoing conversations around the use of technology in the classroom and at a distance. DAVE: I am guessing that you are plugged into current teaching and technology topics. You likely recognize that higher education is under pressure to change. Social and technological demands are forcing universities to change the way courses are studied and delivered. Ben and I have teams that focus on the purposeful use of instructional technologies to support teaching and learning. Without taking a ton of time, we want to hit some key points so you’ll understand the resources available to you.
Ben: We want you to know, and you likely do, that Eastern Washington University is an institution focused on expanding opportunities to students through excellence in learning. As faculty, you have the ability to change lives. Dave and My teams are here to support the things you do to create excellence in teaching and learning and to promote student success.
Ben: Here is more about Eastern’s mission. [Hit the high points from this slide]
DAVE: Both of our teams realize that you are the show. Our teams are here to support your teaching and learning activities.
DAVE: Brian Voss, the CIO of the University of Maryland and the outgoing President of Educause, in a report this year concerning Massive Open Online Courses wrote, DAVE: “While information technology (IT) is the medium through which disruption of the academic enterprise is taking place that disruption is not about IT. … What is most important for higher education is the transformation of teaching and learning. The “techies” are indeed backstage, making things happen, but the “stars” on the stage are the faculty and instructors. This revolution is not about IT. It is about teaching and learning.”BEN: Dave’s team and my team are part of what takes place “backstage.” We will work to help you be successful “on stage.”
DAVE: The third point we want to make is that we want you to call us or to stop by for help. And we encourage you to do so BEFORE you get frustrated. Don’t spend hours struggling with a technology or instructional question. Call someone. Ask for help. If you catch the wrong person they will point you in the right direction for assistance.
DAVE: Both of our team can help you with using technology tools. If your question tips toward HOW to use a technology, or if a technology is not working as advertised, please catch my team. If your question is more focused on teaching methods or if you have questions about fully online or hybrid/blended delivery, Ben’s team are the experts.
BEN: [talk through this slide]
BEN: [describe your team]
DAVE: [talk through this slide]
DAVE: This is the instructional technology, design and development team within Information Technology. They are located on the third floor of Monroe Hall. [I will introduce names and roles.]
DAVE: This slide is a bit wordy but it is Ben and my attempt to put on one slide a kind of “Map” for you so you can get a better idea of the breadth of services available to you and see who to tag for assistance.BEN: [Talk through the Virtual Campus bullets]DAVE: [Talk through the ITDDS bullets]BEN: [Talk through the Collaboration bullets]
DAVE: Here is a shot at “wayfinding” that is pointing you in the right direction for help – depending on your question or area of help needed. [Talk through the cases.]
BEN: A couple more points before we close. We are looking for faculty trailblazers. If that is you, there are many way you can help our two teams center our services more effectively.We are interested in innovative teaching models. With a campus focus on student success, we would love to see what you are doing that is innovative and that could be shared with a group of scholars.
BEN: Faculty have a voice in many different forums at Eastern, one of which is the Academic Systems Advisory Committee – actually that group is being renamed the Educational Technology Advisory Committee effective this Fall. I would encourage you to consider either joining this group – there is one faculty representative per college, plus a representative from the faculty union and one representative from Academic Affairs, that is me, and one representative from Information Technology, that is Dave. You are welcome to attend or provide input to this group even if you are not a standing member of the committee.
DAVE: Here is a short list of “coming attractions” for the school year. [Hit each bullet.]
BEN: Last point to make is that Dave and I and roughly 20 staff are here to support you in your traditional teaching and in your online teaching. When in doubt, please catch Dave or myself.