Digital Learning - beyond eLearning and Blended Learning

Try the 5P approach. This is a set of five strategies that will help you create a positive and engaging learning environment for your online students.  

Something that surprised us was how active online students were in terms of asking questions about their instruction.

Video lectures may have worked as a stop-gap measure in the emergency move to online learning, but they just don't cut it for the long term. Here are nine ways to bring distance education courses to the next level.

KF:  This edition (006) looks at "student engagement" - 5 minutes of video that might just introduce a few new ideas about getting students to engage.

Gave a Keynote at City of Glasgow College on 'AI for Learning'. I've rarely seen an audience m ore engaged, the question and answer sessio

From engaging on social media to attending virtual conferences, across the globe, academia has experienced how digital spaces have allowed us to connect and become more fully human in solidarity wi…

Teaching online but you don't want to be on camera? You have several off-camera options for teaching online. Check out the whole series! New videos posted every week.

E1: 10 Tips Beyond Zoom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7vooDcxUaA

E2: Super Simple Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0lQJvBC_1I

E3: Learning from YouTubers: Off-Camera Options
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nQn8D0yUnc

E4: The MixTape : Audio Options
https://youtu.be/gJdEQfvgww8

Featuring awesome eduTubers like  @Knowing Better   @Taran Van Hemert   @Destiny   @ContraPoints   @The School of Life   @Rationality Rules   @Philosophy Tube   @Jabrils   @Sally Le Page   @Mark Rober   @Gawx Art   @You Suck At Cooking   @CGP Grey   @PolyMatter   @Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell   @PowerPoint School   @Leila Gharani 

2:00 Journey to YouTube University
3:35 5 Options when you don't want to be on camera
3:40 POV
4:12 Stock Video and Stock Audio
Videvo.net, Pixabay.com, Pexels.com, YouTube Audio Library https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music
4:37 Graphic Design
Tutorials for Merge Shapes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laV-u0KwgVg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKyjRgDR92w
Awesome Series by Polymatter
https://www.skillshare.com/classes/How-to-Make-an-Animated-YouTube-Video/1143408374/classroom/discussions
Flaticon.com, Graphicburger.com, Biorender.com, Coolors,com
5:24 Animation
PowerPoint Animation tutorials (Morph Transition)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7jbBLJZ6a0
6:13 Screen Recording
6:28 Video Editor Recommendation: DaVinci Resolve
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
Resolve Tutoial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-GzbvmTMn8
6:54 Storytelling
7:23 The Y & the XY Formula of Storytelling
7:36 Y1 - The Surprising Fact
8:10 Y2 - Eelavate a Great Example
8:52 Y3 - The Hero's Journey
9:10 The Gloria Gaynor Hero Cycle
10:00 Invite them into the Journey
10:15 Jabril's Story

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Several years ago, when it first became clear that online education was becoming more prevalent, questions were asked about the format of educational content. At the time, in the early years of online education, we witnessed teachers taking content that had been traditionally delivered, and pushing it across into the online environment. This practice quickly became known as 'shovelware' because teachers were ultimately shovelling their content across to the online platform. Quantity was more important than quality, because a rapid population of new digital spaces was deemed to be expedient - the pedagogy could wait.