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Jon Dron uploaded the file Technological distance - my slides from OTESSA '23- Alexander Gorgi uploaded the file Final Submission Portfolio
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- Sydney Carroll published a blog post Unlearning
- Emily Cargan commented on the blog Adapting to online learning
- Emily Cargan commented on the blog 3 Tips for staying on track with 2 courses
- Kyla James published a blog post Adapting to online learningComments
- Adele Tremblay published a blog post 3 Tips for staying on track with 2 coursesComments
Hello Adele,
Thank you so much for this excellent post. These are wonderful tips that will prove very beneficial to anyone who reads and adopts them. I'll be adopting some of them myself as I have definitely felt as though I am facing a mountain this past year when trying to juggle study and work!
Your post has also reminded me that I promised to create a cheat sheet for students regarding deadlines for the course. I'll do that later today!
With all best wishes,
Emily
Emily Cargan May 28, 2023 - 8:31am
- Jon Dron commented on a bookmark The DIKW hierarchy as interpeted by ChatGPT
The DIKW hierarchy as interpeted by ChatGPT
By Eugene Griffin 4 May 2023 @ 8:42pm Comments (2)www.researchgate.net - The DIKW hierarchy Many web-based resources discuss DIKW, Li & Duan's [1] paper explored the usage of DIKW by ChatGPT [2]. The process, as interpreted by [2], provides valuable insight into the extraction and interpretation of Data,...
Fetch-Decode-Execute Cycle: If you're a visual learner you'll want to watch this video
Last updated March 3, 2023 - 4:11pm by KevinThe Fetch-Execute Cycle: What's Your Computer Actually Doing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5JC9Ve1sfIPreparing for peer review
By Christopher Daniel February 9, 2021 - 4:56pmI plan to conduct peer review based on what Elbow has identified as the four qualities being reviewed in a criterion-based feedback (253-254) and interpret each standard to match the requirements under the writing rubric for MAIS 606.My latest paper: On the Misappropriation of Spatial Metaphors in Online Learning
By Jon Dron 3 January 2023 @ 12:49pmjournal.otessa.org - This is a link to my latest paper, published in the closing days of 2022. The paper started as a couple of blog posts that I turned into a paper that nearly made an appearance in the Distance Education in China journal before a last-minute regime...Decoding Prehistoric Art
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown January 16, 2018 - 10:01amANTH 277 Students: Check out this CBC Ideas episode about prehistoric art http://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/old-masters-decoding-pre-historic-art-with-jean-clottes-1.4487646Can GPT-3 write an academic paper on itself, with minimal human input?
By Jon Dron 2 July 2022 @ 12:48pmhal.archives-ouvertes.fr - Brilliant. The short answer is, of course, yes, and it doesn't do a bad job of it. This is conceptual art of the highest order. This is the preprint of a paper written by GPT-3 (as first author) about itself, submitted to "a well-known...Unit 2: Food for Thought
Started by Gregory McDonald September 19, 2022 - 10:17am Replies (8) Last reply by Abeba Yitbarek October 8, 2022 - 12:19pmFood for thought for Unit 2 (as copied from the Instructor's Notebook): 1. How much do you personally trust the various search engines? What are some of the benefits of a popular search engine? What are some of the pitfalls. 2. Describe the...We need help: Athabasca University is facing an existential threat from the government of Alberta
By Jon Dron 5 August 2022 @ 4:26pm Comments (1)www.youtube.com - This video from Peter Scott, president of Athabasca University, is a clear, eloquent, and passionate plea to save our university and the education of its students from imminent destruction at the hands of a brutal, self-serving, short-sighted...We shape our buildings and, afterwards, our buildings shape us: some lessons in how not to build an...
By Jon Dron August 14, 2022 - 1:44pmThis is an analysis of the problems that currently beset Athabasca University and a plea to prevent it but, more generally, it is a discussion of the ways that the decisions we have made affect who we are, and how we develop.Communities we live in and serve: universities and places
By Jon Dron October 6, 2022 - 10:55pmVoluntourism, geoarbitrage, and digital nomadsReasons to be Cheerful is among my first ports of call for news most mornings because I hate to start the day on a negative or banal note. The news is mostly good, but it's never trivial, cute, or...
Unit 5 - Javascript Learning Diary
By Hassan Jasim in the group COMP 266 August 25, 2022 - 2:15pmPosted to group: COMP 266In this unit, I tackled JavaScript more in-depth. I defined 4 functions that I was going to develop, created workflow diagrams for each and pseudo code for them as well. This was a little different than what I am normally used to as with most...Thanks @demetriosnAB for your generous offer. We completely misunderstood that you wanted to help...
By Jon Dron August 8, 2022 - 10:00amDear Demetrios NicolaidesYou say,“I’ve offered to provide any kind of assistance that the university needs. They haven’t asked for any.”This is very kind! I am sorry for all the very, very, very bad thoughts I have been...My latest paper, "Learning, Technology, and Technique", now online in the Canadian...
By Jon Dron 10 August 2022 @ 7:50pmcjlt.ca - This is my latest paper, Learning, Technology, and Technique, in the current issue of the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology (Vol. 48 No. 1, 2022). Essentially, because this was what I was invited to do, the paper shrinks down over...The limits and limitations of business requirements
By Jon Dron July 28, 2022 - 4:11pmAthabasca University's Digital Governance Committee recently got into a heated debate about whether and why we should support Zoom. It was a classic IT manageability vs user freedom debate and, as is often the way in such things, the suggested...
A guide to the Student Server
Started by Kimberly Lindsay in the group COMP 266 January 29, 2022 - 3:15pm Replies (9) Last reply by Shivam Vyas April 20, 2022 - 3:43pmPosted to group: COMP 266Hey everyone, I really struggled with this incredibly simple task for way too long and had a lot of responses that didn't fully answer my questions, so I made a quick reference guide for the newbies who aren't sure how to upload their .html files to...Just a Game? Study Shows No Evidence That Violent Video Games Lead To Real-Life Violence -...
By Jon Dron 6 November 2021 @ 11:32amneurosciencenews.com - This is a report on a plausible US-based study on the effects of violent video games, with a fairly large number of subjects (all boys for the detailed study, though also investigating broader patterns across genders). It finds no causal...JavaFX .bat files for ease of use (Windows 10)
Started by Daley April 20, 2021 - 11:50am Replies (3) Last reply by Caterina July 24, 2021 - 10:27amHello everyone, I set up JavaFX on my computer when I first started the course, but hadn't used it any serious capacity until just yesterday. While I was using it, I made use of 2 batch files to call the appropriate commands required on windows...
The DIKW hierarchy as interpeted by ChatGPT
By Eugene Griffin 4 May 2023 @ 8:42pm Comments (2)www.researchgate.net - The DIKW hierarchy Many web-based resources discuss DIKW, Li & Duan's [1] paper explored the usage of DIKW by ChatGPT [2]. The process, as interpreted by [2], provides valuable insight into the extraction and interpretation of Data,...View of Speculative Futures on ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Collective...
By Jon Dron 13 March 2023 @ 12:49pmwww.asianjde.com - This is a remarkable paper, pubished in the Asian Journal of Distance Education, written by 35 remarkable people from all over the world and me. It was led by the remarkable Aras Boskurt, who pulled all 36 of us together and wrote much of it in the...Petition · Athabasca University - Oppose direct political interference in universities · Change.org
By Jon Dron 6 February 2023 @ 10:26amwww.change.org - I, like many staff and students, have been deeply shaken and outraged by recent events at Athabasca University. This is a petition by me and Simon Buckingham Shum, of the University of Technology Sydney, Australia to protest the blatant interference...
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Hi Kyla,
Thank you for this excellent blog post! It can definitely feel intimidating to post on online discussion forums but no one on this course is judging other people's post; instead, I think everyone is grateful to have others to talk to about their own anxieties about taking further education and juggling this with all of their other responsibilities.
As shown by this post, you have important things to say and a lovely way of expressing yourself, so just post when you can and know you will have delighted and engaged readers!
It can take a while to get oriented to online learning platforms. I still struggle finding my way around the AU MAIS 606 site! Just know you're not alone in this. Check under Communications > News and Announcements every week for my notifications as I try to provide a summary of each week's work there.
All the very best for now!
Emily
Emily Cargan May 28, 2023 - 9:01am