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  • Buzzwords Worth Knowing

    The first preconference session for explore 2007 (5th Annual Canadian E-Learning Conference) is “Buzzwords worth knowing” by Brian Lamb, Emerging Technologies Discoordinator Office of Learning Technology, University of British Columbia. It’s looking to be a good session – I’ll notify it in real time… so this is going to be a different type of post…

  • Some musings on ePorts

    I’ve been invited to be part of a panel talking about eportfolios this week at the Canadian eLearning  Conference (nee WebCT conference) and taking the role of the instructional designer, I’ve been thinking about eportfolios and some of the things that I might say are/might be guided by: If they are implemented in more than…

  • STHLE Day 2 – Keynote, Web2 and Technology Integration

    Well today was an interesting day, attending one of the few non ed, education conferences; seeing how the non ed world is using and “discovering” what many of us with an education background have known and used many times over. So with that in mind, my refections on the day are not to explore the…

  • Curriculum Mapping Pre-Conference Session – STLHE

    While the session I wanted to go to this morning was canceled, but the session ( Curriculum Mapping: The Path to Improving Student Learning and Faculty Effectiveness Through Curriculum Alignment – John Mahaffy, Gloria Svare and Karen Kopera-Frye, University of Nevada, Reno) that I wanted to go to in the afternoon was really well done…

  • Reinforcement Learning – Behaviouralism for the Machine?

    I was at a day long seminar/conference on campus yesterday showcasing a variety of technology projects that are running on campus. One of the sessions that I went to that was somewhat interesting (if poorly presented) was on reinforcement learning (RL). Basically they have the machine/program hunt for a maximal reward signal and from there…