📣 If you are interested how to find European research funding, don't miss this webinar organised by the ASPIS Academy! ONTOX coordinator Mathieu Vinken will share his insights on how to polish your skills to write competitive research proposals.
March is National Reading Month! What better way to conclude this month than by registering for our upcoming Science of Reading and MLLs webinar? While this webinar is part of a series, each session is valuable on its own. Plus, when you sign up, you'll receive recordings of previous sessions.
Register here: https://lnkd.in/eJuMTGXY#scienceofreading#MLL#ELL#bilingualeducation
enabling digital services for Student Loan related activities while maintaining the highest security standard, the most compliant personal data protection and customer-centric data-driven innovation.
🌟 Excited to share our latest blog post on "Aligning Individual and Collective Objectives in Multi-Agent Cooperation." This work delves into the challenges of mixed-motive cooperation in multi-agent learning and presents a novel optimization method, Altruistic Gradient Adjustment (AgA), to align individual and collective objectives. Our theoretical proof and visualization of learning dynamics demonstrate AgA's success in achieving this alignment. Check out the full article here: https://bit.ly/3UNRVBr#research#multiagentlearning#cooperation
The latest TOK newsletter is now out!
This month's edition will help your students to distinguish between lazy scientific advice, and advice based on rigorously-generated data, offer them seven ways to spot a conspiracy theory, get them discussing why Beyonce's Cowboy Carter is such a great work of art, and invite them to decipher the message behind politicians' clothing.
It's designed for EVERYONE - not just your TOK team - and will enable all members of your faculty to add an epistemological layer to their teaching, link their subject to the latest events and issues going on in the world, and help their students become effective critical thinkers.
As well as the eight stories you see here (three of which we've turned into mini-lessons and knowledge journeys), this month members of the site also explored the following questions via other authentic contexts -
*Should we reject all sources of historical knowledge not based on personal experience?
*How easy is it for students to answer the question, What would it take for you to believe your perception was wrong?
*Is great art and literature about ‘defiance’?
*How does rethinking our definition of ‘agency’ change our relationship with the natural world?
*How does the concept of sainthood support John Paul II’s assertion about the relationship between faith and reason?
*What gives art its value?
*Why does our knowledge of mathematics need to improve if we are to construct a safe and secure online environment?
*What makes a person an ‘artist’?
*Do emojis widen the possibilities in terms of communicating knowledge about the world?
*How can we navigate a path between toxic positivity and fearful pessimism?
*Does technology support or undermine the integrity of art?
*What steps should we go through to arrive at a conclusion about an ethical issue?
To access all of this, every month, join us here - https://lnkd.in/gH_u9NX#TOKNewsletter#TOKMiniLessons#AuthenticCriticalThinking#IBDiploma
PhD. Educator. Researcher. ➖ 1️⃣ I research 🧐 higher education, TEL, and research design. 2️⃣ I train 👩💻 teachers on using edtech. 3️⃣ I teach 👩🏫 research skills
For #CFPTuesdays this week, the call is about #creativity! A hot topic these days with #GenAI redefining how we perceive and define creativity in the context of teaching and learning.
The call is for the 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐝𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞. It is an #openAccess journal 🤩, and you are not charged for submitting or publishing with them. The call accepts different kinds of pieces, not limited to original or empirical research.
The #video below gives some information, but I highly recommend checking out the #link in the comments.
#sebahspicks#phdchat#callforpapers#cfp#research#highered#edchat#publication
Alhamdulillah day#75 task completed,
Day-75 Task: Read the following Article with interactive videos about How does the internet work? behind the scenes what happens, etc. How does the internet work?
my repo: https://lnkd.in/dy5frNQW#100daysofcodingchallenge.
#typescript practice and learning,
#GIAIC course!
Validity of simulations is essential to advance experiential learning. 🚀 This means the dynamics of the simulation should be comparable to actual real life. And skills that make the difference in reality, also make the difference in the sim.
So how do you create simulations, based on actual validated expertise? This requires analyses o and a sound validation process ✅ , which are the center of a scientific paper that we wrote together with our wonderful collaborators Dr. Natasha Gousseva and Dr. Mark Pluymaekers from @Zuyd Hogeschool | Zuyd University of Applied Sciences.
#collaboration#science#publication#communication#zuyd
I'm happy to announce that our manuscript “Creating authentic and effective practice scenarios for digital simulation-based conversation training” has been accepted for publication in the journal Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning (RPTEL).
In this article, we described and illustrated a five-step process model for designing practice scenarios for digital simulation-based conversation training, in which learners practice challenging conversations with a virtual character.
This project was the result of a fruitful collaboration between Michiel Hulsbergen (DialogueTrainer), Mark Pluymaekers (ZUYD University) and myself (ZUYD University). It’s a testament to the power of teamwork and I am very grateful to be a part of this team.
#zuyd#dialoguetrainer#communication#digitaliziingsociety
I explore and test AI tools for academic research, saving you the hassle! | Speaker with 15 Years of Expertise (Academic Research) | AI Tools and Tips for Academic Research
We definitely did a thing!
Koutropoulos, A., Stewart, B., Singh, L., Sinfield, S., Burns, T., Abegglen, S., Hamon, K., Honeychurch, S. and Bozkurt, A. (2024) ‘Lines of Flight: The Digital Fragmenting of Educational Networks’, Journal of Interactive Media in Education. https://lnkd.in/g9SRg2Pk
Abstract
With the precipitous changes of the platform formerly known as Twitter, brought on by the change of ownership in late 2022, many networked educators sought, and continue to seek, new digital spaces to continue fostering and developing their digital practice. The authors of this article had all been actively networked on Twitter, and wanted to explore these changes in their professional worlds. As we sought out these spaces we critically began to interrogate our own practices on this platform to gain a deeper understanding of our practice going forward. We’ve approached this exploration through three vectors: an examination of the terms we use to describe movement from platform to platform, digital identity formation and disruption, and building human connection in digital spaces. The findings from our exploration yielded the following conclusions: (1) With regard to metaphors of movement (i.e., “migration”) we leave space open as to which metaphor to use as no metaphor is a perfect fit to explain the complexity of this phenomenon. (2) Digital identity/ies are multifaceted and sometimes place-specific, but some networked affordances seemed to encourage an ever-evolving digital identity more than other spaces. (3) Finally, digital spaces afford us the ability to carve out our own communities from the wider academic community, in the process developing a more owned and voiced identity. However as social media platforms are fleeting, those connections – and identities – are in danger of getting co-opted or deleted as platforms rise and fall.
Apostolos Koutropoulos | Bonnie Stewart | #LenandlarSingh | Sandra Sinfield | Tom Burns | Sandra Abegglen | #KeithHamon | Sarah Honeychurch | Aras Bozkurt
We did a thing, and it's out now! --
Koutropoulos, A., Stewart, B., Singh, L., Sinfield, S., Burns, T., Abegglen, S., Hamon, K., Honeychurch, S. and Bozkurt, A. (2024) ‘Lines of Flight: The Digital Fragmenting of Educational Networks’, Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2024(1), p. 11. Available at: https://lnkd.in/e7YG8iCs.
Very happy to have collaborated with such awesome folks :-)
Also, a big thank you to JIME and the editors of the special issue for their feedback :-)
