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  • Comments on Peers’ posts

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    My comments: Hi Anna, thanks for introducing me to the concept of open pedagogy, this is new to me and sounds like a good approach for covering different topics to different learners. I’ve always believe that a good instructional resource would allow for ownership sharing between the learners and teachers. Although, I would suggest adding…

  • Inclusive Design: Enhancing interactive learning resource and web-based accessibility

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    On this week’s blog post, we’re covering the topic of Inclusive Design, I wanted to cover the topic of how we are designing our interactive learning resource through answering the question “How will your interactive learning resource specifically ensure that the needs of all learners can be met?”. What is our interactive learning resource? We…

  • Learning Design: Experimental Learning

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    My chosen approach to write about is Experimental Learning! Overview Experimental Learning is described as placing emphasis on hands-on, self-directed and experiential learning processes. Some key characteristics of this approach includes: Based on these definitions from the California Learning Resource Network (California Learning Resource Network. (n.d.)), I can provide some examples on Experimental Learning: Alignment…

  • Learning, motivation and theory

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    After reviewing Chapter 11 of Foundations of Learning and Instructional Design Technology, I faced some difficulties in grasping the concept of Constructivism in learning. According to the textbook, constructivism is described as a method of learning that “creates meaning from experience”, I found this explanation to be confusing since behaviorism can also be described in…

  • Reflection: Resources on work-from-home well-being and Ergonomics

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    As someone who has been working from home for around 3 years now, I wanted to take a look at the resources provided by UVic and reflect on my own Ergonomics. I do own an anti-bluelight set-up, standing desk and auto dimming monitor light, so I’m quite excited to see what I can learn and…

  • Reflection: Talk on Waniskâw Foundation by Nodin Cutfeet

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    The Concept This week’s content is focused on an Indigeous platform that empowers creativity and self-expression through digital art and coding. Nodin highlighted within this talk that the system that they created focuses on compiling contributions across different learners. A “Peer-to-peer” knowledge transfer system. This point resonated quite well with me, majority of the technology…

  • Reflection: Talk on “datafication” and algorithmic decision-making

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    Overview One of the most memorable points I retained from this talk is the concept of “datafication” how all of our services and our public service platforms are all now digitalized, by extension making all our inputs available as data points. The speaker argues that since there are more data, the algorithmic decision-making process becomes…

  • Reflection: BC Digital Learning Strategy Priority 1

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    BC’s Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills compiled a list of strategies for supporting post-secondary systems with digital learning in BC. This is available at https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/education-training/post-secondary-education/institution-resources-administration/digital-learning-strategy. For this reflection I wanted to focus on a point that I think is the most important, modernization of Policies and Processes in education. This list covers 3…

  • Reflection: Inquiry process and talk with Jeff Hopkins

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    The concept of inquiry During the talk with Jeff Hopkins on Inquiry-based learning, I ended up reflecting on my approach to studying and learning new skills. Personal interest and curiously has always been my main drive for learning, Jeff expanded it by framing the questions that I would ask myself rather than focusing on topics.…

  • Reflection: Digital Citizenship talk with Jesse Miller

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    Reviewing Jesse’s talk gave me quite a bit of insight into technology and privacy. For this reflection I do want to focus on the point that resonated the most with me: how technological evolution improved our connections but breaks down our privacy walls. This made me think about modern networking platforms like LinkedIn, specifically the…