At recent workshop that I facilitated, a group of participants were projecting their work on a screen so that they could work together. They were creating a storyboard outlaying it in powerpoint. They connected three different laptops. They rebooted them several times. The projector was swapped out. They even tried different cables from the projector …
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Data. Big data. People talk about data these days as if they know what they are talking about. They have no idea. What we do know is that the amount of data has grown exponentially with new systems and techniques, resulting in new types of data. I find it fascinating that it is making possible …
When I first learned about xAPI, I knew intrinsically its value and couldn’t wait to find a project to use it. It took two years. A project in Zambia had put in their workplan to take data from eLearning AND mentoring applications and put in one database. Ah-ha! I thought. That’s what xAPI does. First, …
Recently when I was in West Africa, I was chatting with someone who is the head of a local organization about technology project. The project would benefit agriculture in a rural community. The organization’s solution is good, she was saying, “So how do you get people, in particular the BBCers (born before computers) to use …
Getting people to use your technology: Thank you but no thanks Read More »
You hear alot that people want to use technology in learning to reduce costs of face-to-face learning. It is true. We do have to decrease them for a range of reasons: costs too much to bring the people together, takes away from their work, people can’t remember everything that they learned when it is all …
Technology AND People is GREATER THAN Technology MINUS People Read More »
When I lived in The Gambia, to ask someone to turn a light or anything off, people would say “off it.” I thought of that expression when I was writing this post. What about “off-it” referring to the internet? Either people have been so consumed with being online, they need to “off it” to come …
“Strengthening Health Information System toward Interoperability in West Africa Region” was a conference that brought together stakeholders to look at health systems and lessons learned from the Ebola crisis. Being the non-technical person that I am, my take-aways were about the people. Capacity Building. What is needed to train people in skills to manage systems …
Capacity Building: Learnings from ‘Strengthening Health Info Systems’ Conference Read More »
I am loving this from EDUCAUSE REVIEW: “Our thinking about digital technology in higher education is shifting away from seeing it as IT infrastructure and instead toward conceiving it as a digital learning environment.” YES! It is not about the technology. It’s about technology supporting learning. The article described six trajectories about digital technology in …
My first job in learning technology was as a computer teacher in an international school teaching 7th graders in West Africa. I entered the field of technology through education. My expertise is in how technology and learning work together. That is what I do. But is it my job? Our team recently did a “motivational …
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu In the work that I do in eLearning, I find that people “don’t know what they don’t know.” They know some buzzwords like LMS and eLearning. They think technology is a cool thing to do. For many, technology is a learning solution …