A3 – Adventure ABC
During the pandemic, more than 70% of after-school tutoring businesses in China said they experienced severe cash flow shortages due to a sharp drop in student enrollment, while more than 60% of business executives in the sector said they expect the negative impacts of the outbreak to continue to the end of the year. For […]
A3: JournEd
Hello! And welcome to my Assignment 3. Our data-driven digital landscape is becoming more personalized by the day. Tomorrow’s industries are not looking for mass-produced, standardized workers. Until now, educators have struggled to keep track of their learner’s progress when each one is on their own unique path. Meet JournEd. The tool that uses cloud […]
Community of Learning
Community of Learning – Open Digital Badges for professional development of Educators. With over 128 000 teachers in the province of Ontario, the tracking of specific skills sets can be a challenging task. Every year educators are continuously learning and increasing their skill sets. Their learning often goes unrecognized and unnoticed as there is a […]
A3 – Thinking out loud
With how our work environment has evolved, one job till retirement is no longer the norm. At the same time, with open educational resources and other advance technology, people are learning new skills constantly to make themselves more competitive in the workforce. However, career navigation can be challenging for students with limited life experience and […]
A3 LabPal – A One Stop Solution for Makerspaces
Makerspaces have become very popular with educators and learners alike. It is not uncommon to find them embedded within libraries, schools and community centres. Furthering this point, the maker movement has gained so much momentum that makerspaces are also being created with profit driven business models and found in unconventional locations like coffee shops, shared […]
Exploring Open Education: OE Global 2020 Makes All Their Recorded Sessions Openly Accessible and Opens Up OEG Connect
Last week Jessica Daicos asked me to give her more information on OE Global in her response to my questions on OERs for my workshop, and I am happy to say that OE Global is delivering on that ‘more information’ by making all of their recorded sessions openly accessible on YouTube and opening up their […]
An Invitation to a Building OER Awareness Initiative and a Place to Share Your OERs Beyond the Course
I greatly enjoyed participating in the OE (Open Educational) Global Conference this past week. As I asked a question on here with regards to planning the workshop I was facilitating on Drawing Eyes and Building Awareness Around Open Educational Resources, I thought I’d share the workshop recording and some of the challenges of OER awareness, […]
Week 12: Data Visualization
Hi everyone and welcome to our OER on Data Visualization (https://juliopalacios3.wixsite.com/etec522). The goal of this OER is to provide you with a general understanding on how data visualization reflects how we interact with not only information, but with the world around us. Furthering this point, we will like to examine the impact data visualization has […]
A Time Sensitive Question for My OE Global Workshop on Thursday
Hello Everyone, I am facilitating a workshop this week, as a part of the OE Global, in which my goal is to start building a community public outreach campaign around OERs. I’d love your insights for it. Seeing as we’ve all been building OERs for ETEC 522 and other MET courses, I’d love your thoughts […]
Week 11: Personalized Learning
In the early weeks of ETEC 522 the emerging market poll prophesied that personalized learning (PL) is in demand in education; our OER hopes to substantiate these claims. As you join us in our venture through PL, you will find out that it is not about whether PL will hit the main stage, it’s more […]