Educational Technology and Design

Directory curated by Contact North: https://teachonline.ca/tools-trends/journals

We’ve been updating the list of readings in the resources section: https://sites.usask.ca/etad/resources/#reading

 

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

11am – Noon (Eastern Time)

Register now! 

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the education system in Canada and around the world received an unexpected shock as schools, colleges and universities closed and people began working and learning from home. As faculty, instructors, students, administrators, policy-makers and funders, we learned a lot. But what can we expect in the future?

In this webinar, Contact North I Contact Nord Research Associate Stephen Downes discusses the 10 major educational technology tools, methods and developments that are expected to be more widely adopted within two to three years and will likely be mainstream by 2030.

Our Host:

Stephen Downes
Research Associate, Contact North | Contact Nord

November 1 – 3, 2022 – Virtually
November 14 -17, 2022

Onsite – Orlando, Florida

The Online Learning Consortium’s Accelerate 2022 conference, Reflecting Onward: Evidence for a Changed World, emphasizes innovative and impactful research and effective practices in the field of online, blended, and digital learning. Supporting administrators, designers, and educators alike, this conference offers attendees a comprehensive list of sessions and activities tailored to addressing the challenges and goals of our entire community.

The Accelerate 2022 tracks include:

• Access, Equity, and Open Education
• Blended Learning Strategy and Practice
• Engaged and Effective Teaching and Learning
• Instructional Design
• Leadership and Institutional Strategy
• Research, Evaluation, and Learning Analytics
• Student Support and Success
• Technology and Future Trends

For more information and to register

Thanks to the Contact North for the info . . .

CFP for next year’s 39^th Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference, June 14-16, 2023, Kelowna, BC, Canada.

In addition to the call itself, we are very pleased to announce the plenary speakers for 2023.  Dr. Stefan Timmermans (University of California-Los Angeles) will give the keynote address while Dr. Kishonna L. Gray (University of Kentucky) and Dr. Hannah Wohl (University of California-Santa Barbara) will join us as featured speakers! As always, visit our website, www.qualitatives.ca for the most up-to-date information.

We look forward to seeing many of you join us again this year, in Kelowna.

The 39^th Qualitative Analysis Conference

Are We Talking in Circles? Expanding Ideas and Perspectives in Qualitative Research

University of British Columbia-Okanagan

Kelowna, B.C., Canada

June 14-16, 2023

Abstract Submission Deadline: October 15, 2022

“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth, that around every circle another can be drawn … The extent to which this generation of circles, wheel without wheel, will go, depends on the force or truth of the individual soul.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles, 1841.

The metaphor of the circle is a powerful one, in life, intellectual ideas, and indeed, in our world of interpretive theory and qualitative research. As Emerson reminds us, our circles of comprehension provide a sense of completion and wholeness, yet nature, no less the obdurate empirical social world we study, often refuses to remain within their limits.[1] Our traditional paradigms may thus require revision and extension as we grapple with emergent problems and issues. Circles may also stand as useful representations of cultural symbolism and forms of social organization, such as collaborative circles, social/intellectual circles, and broader circles of influence through subcultures and networks. We often use circles as tools to map the structures and dynamics of the social worlds we study.[2] If the circle points to social, virtual and conceptual space, then the wheel points to the progress of our perspectives over time. It is often important to revisit and challenge old (and new) ideas across generations, and similar patterns can be seen within our own research projects. For example, Kathy Charmaz emphasized the need to revisit field sites, qualitative data, and conceptual codes and theories, putting them in creative dialogue to generate novel insights and breakthroughs.[3]

Finding inspiration in the metaphor of the circle, we invite a range of theoretical, methodological, and empirical papers under the broad umbrella of interpretive and qualitative research. How do our theoretical perspectives invite us to draw conceptual boundaries, which provide resources but also create challenges in the face of emergent data? How might the metaphor of the circle help us to understand the social and cultural makeup of the groups we study? And, how do our ideas evolve, through dialogue with old and new thinkers over generations, but also in the process of our own emergent research projects? We invite papers on this theme, but also welcome submissions on all aspects of interpretive theory and qualitative research from a broad range of academic disciplines.

Abstracts can be submitted online at www.qualitatives.ca/submit-abstract. If you have any questions, please contact us at thequalitatives@gmail.com.  See you in Kelowna in 2023!

In partnership with AWB, African Development University (ADU) is seeking volunteers to collaborate on the development of an online workshop for faculty on competency-based learning.

This is a virtual project with ADU, a bilingual not-for-profit university located in Niamey, Niger.

The volunteer(s) will begin the project by working with faculty to conduct a needs assessment. The work will continue with collaboration on the design and development of the workshop. The volunteer(s) will further support the faculty and management at ADU by advising on the development of guidelines for the implementation of competency-based learning throughout ADU.

We are looking for 1 or more volunteers.

Ideally, we are seeking a volunteer with a PhD or master’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent academic qualifications and teaching experience and expertise in online instruction. Applicants who are bilingual in English and French are especially encouraged to apply.

Application deadline: September 28, 2022

More information:  Visit here

List by Clayton Wright, May 2022 to December 2022

Professional Development Opportunities 47, May 16 to December 2022, Clayton R. Wright