Mueller-Eberstein, M (2018). Coursera. https://www.coursera.org/learn/new-technologies-business-leaders/lecture/3Jewq/what-will-we-learn-about-virtual-mixed-and-augmented-reality Individual Critical Academic Reflection of my Coursera Experience This reflection piece looks at my experience with using Coursera, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), to explore one module of a larger course called “New Technologies for Business Leaders.”...
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By Rebecca Coyle, Nicole Croft, Michal Gerov & Shazia Khokhar For assignment one, part two of LRNT 526, we were tasked to critically analyze a learning event on a topic delivered through a learning technology of our choosing. Our team, Digital Dreamers, selected the “Virtual, Mixed, and Augmented Reality” module, the second module in a larger course called “New Technologies for Business Leaders” through Coursera, as the...
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Team Three’s Initial Summary of Virtual, Mixed, and Augmented Reality Delivered through Coursera and Our Approach to Critical Inquiry Created by Rebecca Coyle, Nicole Croft, Michal Gerov & Shazia Khokhar As part of LRNT 526, we were tasked to critically analyze a learning event on a topic delivered through a learning technology of our choosing. Learning Event and Delivery Technology As our learning event, we selected...
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Photo by Lewis Keegan on Unsplash Coursera is a MOOC that can deliver affordable education in a micro-learning digital environment. It mixes flexibility and practicality with relevance. I will critically reflect on Coursera as a MOOC and my experience with micro-learning technology. Coursera rates well on my personal scale in terms of its ability to provide a global audience with workplace skills that are in demand now Cappelli...
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Final Reflection Photo by DeepMind on Unsplash The timing of this post coincides with a time when the world has just introduced GPT4, and it’s rather exciting. Just this week, as I prepared our workshop agenda, I began reflecting on some of the highlights of this past week as we dove into understanding the planning required for implementing change. One particular area that stood out for me was “Group A’s” toolkit (Gamella, 2023),...
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Toolkit co-created byNicole Croft, Heather de Lange, Giulia Di Giovanni, Alexandra Samur, and Darren Wilson Please follow the link below to view the toolkit https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSNws1oxnVa1cfrc7OJNkXPxXE-cSa4iBbCLpUMnV5YN5pcO0hjsHUc2CWXVEY1a76wXoumVKQfqT1v/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&slide=id.p
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Photo by fauxels from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photo-of-person-holding-pen-3184635/ Thinking back to when the corporate technology company I work for recently implemented a time-tracking software to record project and facilitator costs. The problem was that planning, consulting and facilitator costs were not tracked and recorded consistently. Scope creep, poor project set up and lack of accountability aided in creating a...
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“Big Data Analytics” by Kenith Cate CC BY 2.0 Today’s entry is a review of a past reflection piece I wrote based on the 2013 post by D’arcy Norman, Ph.D., called “Lessons learned: AV systems design in the Taylor Institute.” I will again use this same piece as I consider how administrators might go about understanding and evaluating how users have adopted the audio-visual (AV) system, specifically understanding the...
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Each of the interviewees in the corporate organization I interviewed disclosed that each department is very reliant on each other and the experts within each of their teams in terms of both dependencies on each other and as contributing stakeholders and Subject Matter Expertise (SME). I will highlight insights from the two interviews collected, personal experience and course material while using Lewin’s unfreeze, change, and...
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Ed White Photographics (2016) D’arcy Norman describes the benefits for many individuals in various roles who are welcome to use the newly designed Audio-Visual (AV) systems that are offered in the Taylor Institutes’ new building located on the University of Calgary’s campus. Norman Highlights that roles aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive. Think about the instructor that works alongside the support of a student that has...
Read MoreAlexandra, Darren, Giulia, Heather, Nicole We all agreed that we found this activity challenging! This is because arguably, all of these characteristics could be valuable for a leader to have. We could generally identify our top five and our bottom five of most and least valued characteristics, but we had trouble ranking the other 10 characteristics. In part, this is because certain characteristics such as “fair-minded” and “honest;”...
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Does being a leader in a data technology field require different skills than running a farm during lambing season? I am part of a larger leadership team made up of executive vice presidents, vice presidents, and managers. Together this team ensures day-to-day operations run smoothly, we are on target to meet business goals set quarterly and yearly, and we stay up to date on current events, competition and tools that can aid our...
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Hello, I’m Nicole. I live in Langford with my partner, son and uncle. I am originally from Sidney; I spent most of my adult years raising a family in Calgary and have been back on the island for about a year and a half. The picture is of our move from Alberta to BC; we sold our belongings, packed what we could into the back of the truck, and headed for the west coast. It was a stifling 44 degrees as we drove through Merritt. We have...
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Youtube URL if this video does not load: https://youtu.be/ho4XozBcvTM PDF of presentation below: Nicoles-design-principles2023pdfDownload
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Created by: Rebecca Coyle, Nicole Croft, Giulia Di Giovanni
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Photo by UX Indonesia on Unsplash Understanding and using a design-thinking process is a learning innovation that emerged over five decades ago. According to Dam and Siang, design thinking concepts were discussed in an early book by Herbert A. Simon as early as 1969 and incorporated concepts such as observation, prototyping and testing (2022). To investigate this innovation further, I will define the design-thinking process and...
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“FLL Small, Medium, & Large Trophies” by dluders is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Evidence suggests that digital badges still pose a degree of uncertainty when it comes to evaluating the effectiveness of learning performance, according to recent research by Newby and Cheng (2019). When we think or discuss digital badges, they are primarily associated with micro-credentials; in fact, when I conducted several scholarly...
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Photo by DeepMind on Unsplash When considering the role of learning outcomes in instructional design, the first question that came to mind was: are learning outcomes a necessary component of instructional design? Gustafson and Branch (2002) state that all instructional designs should incorporate six characteristics: Instructional design is learner-centered: Learner and his/her performance are the focal points.Instructional design is...
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