Emerging Markets Poll Results
We have the results of the Week #1 Emerging Markets Poll, so all of you have also received an email message under separate cover introducing you to the topic you will be covering for Assignment #2, and your team. Please let me know immediately if you haven’t received your topic/team assignment, or if you have […]
Welcome to Week #2
One week down, twelve to go… First, I want to say, “wow!”, I’m impressed with the crew we’ve got! I enjoyed reading your introductory posts and am blown away by the breadth of experience and perspective we’re lucky enough to have with us. I’m looking forward to learning lots from you! The end of each course […]
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 […]
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 […]
Objectives
Education needs more bold, skillful pioneers, and we’re doing everything we can to encourage and equip you for this worthy calling. The learning objectives of 522 can therefore be summarized as follows: Savvy: A working knowledge of the design principles and market processes impacting the success of learning technologies ventures in the public and private […]
Course Manual
The 522 course weblog using WordPress is the site where most course content, activities and discussions will take place. Once you have logged into the weblog (using the instructions that were emailed to you), you will be able to view all of the material, post new topics and comment or respond to existing posts that have been […]
Weekly Schedule
Click on each week to view detailed schedule information. On to Assignments
Assignments
Within 522‘s networked, participatory scholarship model the following four assignments are designed to provide challenging yet relevant, fair, and valuable demonstrations of your mastery of course concepts. 522 is also based on an open learning model, meaning that all of your work is intended to be published online as professional-quality Open Educational Resources (OERs) designed […]
Participation Guide
The following sections introduce the design philosophy of 522 along with guidelines for your successful participation. Discussion Guidelines Content Curation Guidelines Content Curation is confined to single zone of 522 – the “Forum” – all of the links there take you to curated content. Everywhere else, the course works in Discussion mode. You can think of Curated Content in 522 as a structured, hierarchical […]