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ABC Learning Design on a Speadsheet
François Jourde, Erwan Gallenne, 2020/12/17

This is a Google Sheets learning design template shared by François Jourde today on Twitter. He writes, "Hello learning designers: version 3.4 of ABC LD spreadsheet (G Sheets) is more fluid and complete. Translations can now be modified." To try it out, make a copy in your own Google account. There are some interesting features, including especially the translation mechanism (go to the Info tab and change the language in the upper left corner) and the dashboard. It's based on the ABC model of learning design, but you could edit it to support your own model. You still need to do a fair amount of work to do your course design, but this tool standardized it and makes it sharable.

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Building Self-Efficacy: How to Feel Confident in Your Online Teaching
Jill Lassiter, Faculty Focus, 2020/12/17

This article takes as its point of departure Bandura’s self-efficacy theory. This theory, as the author writes, " suggests there are four major sources for building confidence to perform and persevere at a task: mastery experience, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion, and emotional arousal." It left me wondering where my own sense of self-efficacy came from. Bandura's guide isn't much help, because it feels like it covers all possible influences for anything. What distinguishes me from other people? Was it free access to wood and tools as a kid? Was it my years as a Boy Scout? Was it my newspaper route or experience selling greeting cards door-to-door? If I had to say anything, I'd say self-efficacy depends on opportunity as much as it does on anything else. But that's just me saying it.

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Self-directed open educational practices for a decolonized South African curriculum: a process of localization for learning
Jako Olivier, Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, 2020/12/17

I found this article (9 page PDF) to be immediately useful though I almost didn't make it past the introduction. 90% of this article is well-written, clear and informative; the introduction, by contrast, is a jumble (so just skip it and move directly to section 3). It begin with self-directed learning as defined by Knowles (1975), draws the connection to open educational practices, and in the main discussion section applies the concept of decolonization to both. It recommends that open educational practices "need to extend beyond retaining, reusing, revising, remixing and redistributing but also recontextualizing," and that "network-driven, participatory practices and collaborative authorship" inform community-driven OER and OEP initiatives.

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That Op-Ed About Jill Biden Is Awful. Northwestern’s Response Might Be Worse.
Steven Lubet, Andrew Koppelman, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2020/12/17

This is an irresponsible article about academic freedom published in the Chronicle of Higher Education (where else?). It's irresponsible because it (deliberately?) confuses some basic concepts. The authors write, "we believe that it is a serious violation of academic freedom to penalize a faculty member, including an emeritus one, for expressing unpopular views." It's one thing to express an unpopular opinion and quite another to offer the sort of misogyny published in the Wall Street Journal. And it's one thing to punish someone and quite another to stop promoting and celebrating one's association with someone. Academic freedom does not entail endorsement. To suggest it does expresses a sort of entitlement that casts suspicion on the entire professoriate.

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Against Surveillance
Jesse Stommel, Beautiful.ai, 2020/12/17

This is a slide deck from Jesse Stommel for a talk at the recent #AgainstSurveillance teach-in. I'm including it partially because the content is relevant but also because of the platform being used, the very interesting Beautiful.ai slide authoring and sharing site. "It’s an expert deck designer, so you don’t have to be." I don't see any evidence that the service is built on AI, despite the suggestion in the URL. It would be interesting, though, if it were, given the perspective in Stommel's talk.

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3 Tools to Amplify Your Video Conferences
Shelly Sanchez, Teacher Reboot Camp, 2020/12/17

The tools are: first, Google Jamboard , a whiteboard you can use while videoconferencing (I've used it before and find it as useful as any digital whiteboard); second, Peardeck for Google Slides (similar to H5P, it adds interactive elements to web-slide pages); and third, Nearpod, which does the same.

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