This week we discussed Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR). This topic actually had me thinking about the use of scenario-based games and simulation in Medical Education. We currently use standardized patients to provide students with mock clinical experiences. Much like a Virtual or Augmented Reality, the use of standardized patients can can give…
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Universal Design of Learning (UDL)
Week 7 focused on the UDL framework and steps for making learning accessible for a diverse population of learners. As someone who has been designing learning materials for a long time, I thought I had a good understanding of UDL principles and try to apply them when creating multimedia learning tools. This includes the basics…
Humanness in Online Communication
Week 6: Communicating in CMCs This week we discussed new literacy and social practices that have evolved as a result of digital communication. The concept that I was most interested in exploring was the idea of digital storytelling and remaining human in a digital environment. This idea directly related to the first of my exploratory…
Community & Conformity
This week, the critical discussion around the concept of community was very interesting to me because up until now most of the discourse around community (in both the Community of Inquiry framework and in discussions of Communities of Practice) have been neutral or positive. I had not considered the potential of communities to suppress differences…
Legitimate Peripheral Participation in Education
This week I co-faciliated the discussion on Assessment. It was a really interesting week to lead a discussion on because assessment is such a multifaceted topic. The pragmatic parts of the discussion were around the logistics of assessment in an online environment. Some of the more critical discussion points were around the purpose of assessment…
Digital Communication
This week’s discussion on difference social media and communication tools provided an interesting lens through which to examine one of my guiding questions from week 1: How does computer mediated communication differ from face-to-face communication in the development of a community (of practice or of inquiry)? This week, students reviewed a number of different tools,…
Social Presence & Co-construction
Although there are differing definitions of Social Presence (see Lowenthal & Snelson, 2017), I found Garrison and Arbaugh’s definition of Social Presence within the Community of Inquiry framework to be a useful starting point; they define social presence as the ability of members of a community to establish themselves as ‘real’ people; but they expand…
CTL1609 – Computer Mediated Communication
‘What does CMC mean to me and my thinking about teaching and learning in an online context? I understood Computer Mediated Communication, in a very literal sense, to be communication conducted through technological devices – text messages, video chat, email, discussion boards, social media, etc.In Education, I think CMC is often conflated with online/digital learning…