Predictive Technologies and AI in Education AI has been around for many years now, but there has been a recent boom due to ChatGPT and its latest public releases. Its a large language model that has been trained on such a large dataset, that you can have natural language conversations with it, and receive back […]
Blog Post #4 – Open Pedagogy and Open Educational Resources (OER)
Open Pedagogy Open Pedagogy builds off of the concept of Pedagogy which I had previously explored in a blog post: With Open Pedagogy though, we have this new emphasis on top of those concepts toward the shared and collaborative nature behind the learning resources. Typically in a learning environment, a teacher may have their own […]
Blog Post #3 – Universal Design for Learning, Accessibility, Ethical Considerations
What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)? UDL is a framework that is intended to be used to improve teaching and make learning more accessible to students. It is a combination of a variety of aspects to ones teaching methodologies, and centres around three key principles. This is the ways in which you engage students, […]
Blog Post #2 – Pedagogy, Learning Theories, Digital Spaces
Pedagogy This is a word I’ve heard before, but wasn’t familiar with its definition before going through this module. After reflecting on the definition, I understand it to be the ideology one holds behind how they teach. This encompasses one’s approach to teaching, how one goes about this, and includes why as well. For myself, […]
Blog Post #1
About Me Hey everyone! My name is Josh, I am a fifth-year student here at the University of Victoria in my final semester, aiming to earn my Bachelor of Science in Computer Science by the end of this year. I’ve had the (dis)pleasure of navigating through university courses from the beginning of COVID through to […]