ben zaporozan
Peer Network Effects for Knowledge Workers in an Online Economy
This brief reflection began as a two-part conversation (one professional, one academic) about network effects in the knowledge economy and was intended to be a podcast. A knowledge worker is a person whose effectiveness is determined by the use of critical thinking and their capacity for decision making (brainpower). Creating a podcast about this would […]
eCampusOntario: An Innovative Cluster of Mobile OER, Micro-Credentials, & Partnerships
I have been working with online courseware and learning applications in Pearson’s higher education group in Canada for over a decade. Pearson is a global, for-profit education company that understands the importance of resource scalability, and it is committed to providing services to learners, educational institutions, employers, and governments to enhance employability and fill the […]
xAPI and Experiential Learning
Experiential Learning is tracked (sometimes), on mobile devices (sometimes), openly (sometimes), and sometimes offline. xAPI is an e-learning specification that enables data collection about people’s online and offline experiences. Shared formats of sending and receiving data makes it an emerging tool for sharing learning experiences across multiple systems, yet while it is not new it […]
Ben Zaporozan
Hello everyone, I have been working at Pearson Education Canada in Toronto for the past thirteen years, mainly focused on digital content development, authoring tool evaluation, and the end-to-end uses and abuses of learning applications and learning management systems used in Higher Education. My main areas of interest are with adaptive learning technologies, learning analytics, […]