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Welcome to my personal website, where I will document my journey through the Master of Arts in Learning and Technology program at Royal Roads University and blog about topics that are meaningful to me such as Open Educational Resources (OER), online learning, and educational technologies.
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Building an entire post-secondary course using Open Educational Resources
This post is an adaptation from a previous conference presentation, Building an entire post-secondary course using Open Educational Resources - Online Learning 2018. This post will discuss my personal experience building a course solely using Open Educational...
Diving deeper into Open Educational Resources
Photo by rawpixel.com from Pexels When I first registered into the Master of Arts in Learning and Technology (MALAT) program, I never envisioned discovering a topic that I would become so passionate about, and that would change my life so much in one year....
My growth as a Leader
Taking the LRNT 525 – Leading Change in Digital Learning course could not have come at a more appropriate time in my professional career. In early March, I started in a new role at eCampusOntario where I will be a project manager to lead a significant digital change...
Change Management in Digital Environments
Assignment two of LRNT 525: Leading Change in Digital Learning tasked students to use their learning network to reach out to colleagues to discuss their experience with change management. As an approach to garner authentic responses, I decided to use a combination of...
Leading Change in Higher Education and Digital Learning Environments
While reviewing the readings for unit two on the topic of leading change, I found myself reflecting on my past two years working within the Centre for Academic and Faculty Enrichment at Durham College. Within my first year in the department, I reported into five...
Digital Leadership Within the Field of Education
Unit one of the LRNT 525 – Leading Change in Digital Learning course contained several readings that I was able to relate to in my roles as a Learning Technologies Specialist and Part-time Professor at Durham College. For the purposes of this post, I will focus on my...
Selecting the Theory that Effectively Helps Students Mastery a Specific Task
After reading Ertmper and Newby's (2008) article "Behaviorism, Cognitivism, Constructivism: Comparing Critical Features From an Instructional Design Perspective", I found myself captivated by Ertmer & Newby's statement The critical question instructional designers...
The Disadvantages of Open Educational Resources
When reviewing the unit 1 readings, I was pleased to see Teaching in a digital age by Tony Bates listed. I previously secured a hardcopy edition of Tony's book at the 2017 World Conference on Online Learning and looked forward to the opportunity to read the book...
Design Solution: Using Video-Based Discussion to Build Online Learning Communities
"Learning is not safe. In fact, to learn is to take a risk, to become an aerialist, to put your head in the lion's mouth. Learning is a death-defying act. And though it takes place largely within the confines of silent classrooms and sterile learning management...