Here you’ll find stories and audio reviews (see below) on Learning Design in practice for everybody. It should be seen as the fifth part of the book with the same title.
Episode 1: The impact of emotions
Two areas where Artificial Intelligence will have a considerable impact on education is with its adaptive sequencing capabilities. The other is how AI transform pedagogical models. The first means artificial intelligence that is embedded in content that help students learn in a self-directed manner. That improves the learning process. Both …
Not more but different to upgrading media literacy education is required to equip people to be able to handle the evolving media landscape is one of Mike Caulfield that heads the Digital Polarization Initiative at the American Democracy Project messages in an article in niemanlab.org. He writes: “Recent studies seem …
According to Neuroscience all learning depends on the rewiring of neurons into new patterns. From this prerequisite, it takes 10 000 hours of learning to become an expert within a certain field according to recent research. The new rewired patterns in the brain once established creates a new unconscious competence. …
Cognitive science shows that the more senses involved when you are learning the more you remember. With this conclusion, a well-developed digital learning environment will become a perfect starting point for learning. This is improved by the prospects of developing content that besides qualitative knowledge-creation also intend to empower the …
Scenario-based learning in different forms of role-play simulations has a great potential to transform major parts of school education. Similarly, to what it has done with professional learning in accordance with the progress of digital technologies. As the basic pedagogy is focusing on to get an understanding of dynamics and …
Pedagogical innovation is driven by discoveries in neurological research and teaching-skills-development research. In addition, today pedagogical innovation to a large extent takes place in interplay with the development and use of edtech. The last contribute and sometimes is critical to be able to implement the latest findings of pedagogical innovation …
Maria Bot is a socially advanced AI Android teaching assistant that with Professor William Barry, education futurist and AI ethicist, during the past months has formed the first human-Robot-teaching-team. They are teaching about UN Sustainability Goals as well as artificial intelligence etc. During Covid-19 pandemic, 10 000 people all over …
Swedish authorities, employers’ organizations, the unions, and business are joining forces to combat unemployment in the shadow of covid-19. In a pilot project, they are now launching a hub for learning and competence development with free digital courses. The project is financed by the EU Social Fund. Besides combating the …
A research project of Helsinki University focuses on the use of Augmented Reality technology for learning. It is directed on the motivational and cognitive aspects and shows promising results. The outcome is based on 146 participants, 12-year old Finnish pupils, that was visiting a science centre exhibition. Professor Hannu Salmi …
Psychology research of a virtual reality environment with eye-tracking shows according to Professor Melissa Le-Hoa Vo, a psychologist at Goethe University Frankfurt, that: “When we search for a specific object in a scene, we seem to have developed a precise idea of where to look for and find certain things.” …
