So of course we want to know what the list is, but by the time we get to it on page 7 we find the list is actually derived from another paper (Liu et al., 2020, which compares them between Chinese and U.S. based instructors) and this paper measures Canadian faculty and student rankings of them (there's also an appendix with each practice described in more detail). At the top of the list is "students' and faculty's shared contempt for disrespect", otherwise, I feel (based on my reading of the two lists) faculty emphasizes unprepared teaching while students stress ineffective teaching. 18 page PDF.
Today: 297 Total: 297 Lynne N. Kennette, Morgan Chapman, 2024/05/14 [Direct Link]Select a newsletter and enter your email to subscribe:
Stephen Downes works with the Digital Technologies Research Centre at the National Research Council of Canada specializing in new instructional media and personal learning technology. His degrees are in Philosophy, specializing in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of science. He has taught for the University of Alberta, Athabasca University, Grand Prairie Regional College and Assiniboine Community College. His background includes expertise in journalism and media, both as a prominent blogger and as founder of the Moncton Free Press online news cooperative. He is one of the originators of the first Massive Open Online Course, has published frequently about online and networked learning, has authored learning management and content syndication software, and is the author of the widely read e-learning newsletter OLDaily. Downes is a member of NRC's Research Ethics Board. He is a popular keynote speaker and has spoken at conferences around the world.
Stephen Downes,
stephen@downes.ca,
Casselman
Canada
I think this is a useful exercise that should be watched by educators. "We wanted to come up with a method to encourage people watching videos to do what's called 'lateral reading,' which is that you go look at other places on the web to establish whether something is credible or true, as opposed to diving deep into the thing itself," says Amy X. Zhang, one of the authors of a paper (20 page PDF) describing the project. Creating the mechanism is only the first step, though, as the authors need to consider things like bad actors and circular citation networks.
Today: 230 Total: 230 Stefan Milne-U. Washington, Futurity, 2024/05/14 [Direct Link]"When will the first American college or university charge $100,000 or more to attend?" asks Bryan Alexander. "What might that mean for higher education?" There's a number of them in the $US 90K range already, so it's probably not long now. The survey paints a picture of an education system that has gone very wrong, and is designed to preserve privilege rather than advance the interests of society.
Today: 216 Total: 216 Bryan Alexander, 2024/05/14 [Direct Link]The gist of the story is this: "Broadcasters have been focused on fitting the streaming TV business into the traditional TV mold. Meanwhile, YouTube has shattered the mold with its democratic approach to TV and is eating the broadcaster's lunch!" Almost all the video I watch online (and I watch a lot) does not fit into the traditional TV mode. "YouTube has figured out how to harness the creativity of anyone with talent and get them onto the TV screens of just about everyone... Disney spends $30 billion a year on content destined for television. YouTube doesn't pay anything for its content. Instead, it relies on many creators to keep viewers coming back." At some point, we'll see educational media follow the same path (things like TeachersPayTeachers were trailblazing in this way).
Today: 412 Total: 412 Colin Dixon, nScreenMedia, 2024/05/14 [Direct Link]This post offers an overview of GPT-4o, the new model released by chatGPT. "GPT-4o appears to be a step up over GPT-4 and is the smartest model I have used. However, it does not represent a major leap over the previous version of GPT-4, the way that GPT-4 was a 10x improvement over the free GPT-3.5." That accords with my own experience. Also, "soon everyone, whether they are paying or not, will get access to GPT-4o." I've been paying for GPT-4, and will probably keep paying, but as Ethan Mollick says, "that $20 a month barrier kept many people from understanding how impressive AI can be, and for gaining any benefit from AI. That is no longer true."
Today: 237 Total: 237 Ethan Mollick, One Useful Thing, 2024/05/14 [Direct Link]"I was at an event recently and a speaker was late so was asked to do a 20 minute slot, unscripted, no props/slides etc.," writes Andrew Jacobs. "If it happened to you, what could you do a tight 20 on?" My answer - and it should be your answer too - would be "anything". That's the different between knowledge as 'remembering' and knowledge as 'learning'. Anything I've ever heard about, I could talk about for twenty minutes simply by organizing and presenting my thoughts on the topic. Do a 'quick three' - past, present or future; my view, your view, synthesis; etc. For each six minute segment, build the case - something concrete, something general, a conclusion to be drawn (or: an odd phenomenon, a general principle, an explanation to be given). Each of these is only two minutes, and you'll be pressed for time to make the point, but try: a couple points of reference or evidence, and the point is made. Anyone can do this about anything - if they've learned how. And if they've learned how, they know how to learn about any new subject they encounter.
Today: 150 Total: 288 Andrew Jacobs, Lost and Desperate, 2024/05/14 [Direct Link]Web - Today's OLDaily
OLDaily Email - Subscribe
Web - This Week's OLWeekly
OLWeekly Email - Subscribe
RSS - Individual Posts
RSS - Combined version
Podcast - OLDaily Audio
Websites
Stephen's Web and OLDaily
Half an Hour Blog
Leftish Blog
MOOC.ca
Stephen's Guide to the Logical Fallacies
gRSShopper
Let's Make Some Art Dammit
Email: stephen@downes.ca
Email: Stephen.Downes@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Skype: Downes
Professional
National Research Council Canada
Publications
Presentations
All My Articles
My eBooks
About Stephen Downes
About Stephen's Web
About OLDaily
Subscribe to Newsletters
gRSShopper
Privacy and Security Policy
Statistics
Archives
Courses
CCK 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012
PLENK 2010
Change 11 - 2011
Education Futures - 2012
Learning Analytics - 2012
REL 2014
Personal Learning - 2015
Connectivism and Learning - 2016
E-Learning 3.0 MOOC - 2018
Ethics, Analytics - 2020
Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
stephen@downes.ca
Last Updated: May 14, 2024 10:37 p.m.