W01: Course Description
Ventures in Learning Technologies ETEC522 is an online immersion in the global learning technologies marketplace with particular emphasis on the creation and assessment of original for-profit and not-for-profit ventures that seek to harness the prospective learning potentials of emerging technologies. More simply, the course is about the digital frontiers of learning, and the skills required to […]
Hi from David Vogt
OK, so I’m your instructor, and I’m also the author of this course and ETEC523. Please call me David. I’m not an academic or an educator by any traditional standard. I have a PhD in astronomy and I began my career as Director of UBC’s Astronomical and Geophysical Observatories. When my kids were young I […]
A Special Focus on AI
I wanted to offer a few words about the special focus on Artificial Intelligence I intend for this section of ETEC522. There’s a huge AI buzz on. Deservedly so, IMHO. I’m old enough to remember what the world was like before social media, before mobile phones, before computers and before TV. AI is barely nascent […]
Welcome to ETEC522 Jan 2024
Hi everyone! Welcome to yet another exciting MET learning adventure… I am your instructor – David Vogt – you can reach me whenever you wish at david DOT vogt AT ubc DOT ca via email. There are some things you need to know about this Wordpress environment we’re going to share. First, appropriate to the innovative spirit of 522, you’re in an experimental version of WordPress that happens […]