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What Is Open Pedagogy? Identifying Commonalities
Phil Tietjen, Tutaleni I. Asino, International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021/05/21

This article (20 page PDF) reports on a literature review designed to look at recent debates on the meaning of 'open pedagogy' (I would have preferred the wider 'open educational practices' (OEP)) to identify commonalities within it, proposing "a five-part framework that encourages the long-term sustainability of open pedagogy." The discussion is pretty loose and it's hard to find a line of reasoning connecting the different accounts and the framework; indeed, far from being a set of commonalities, it looks more like they drew elements from each approach to create a union, not an intersection, or the perspectives represented.

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An Analysis of Digital Education in Canada in 2017-2019
George Veletsianos, Charlene A. VanLeeuwen, Olga Belikov, Nicole Johnson, International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2021/05/21

This article (16 page PDF) offers an interesting look at some trends but is disappointing in that it surveys only higher education institutional leaders. These perspectives represent only one aspect of a much more diverse and richer digital education landscape in Canada. The survey also appears to focus more on digital technology as used in courses and programs, which may fail to capture many individual practices, though it does note, for example that "OER use often appears to arise out of individual efforts and from a bottom-up approach." The focus on institutional leaders may skew the results. For example, "the most frequently mentioned emerging educational technology (60 coded responses) was virtual, augmented, or extended reality (VR/AR/XR)." I would expect expensive and narrowly focused technology like this would be less widely reflected in day-to-day teaching and learning or in government, corporate and personal learning.

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Investigation of Emerging Trends in the E-Learning Field Using Latent Dirichlet Allocation
Fatih Gurcan, Ozcan Ozyurt, Nergiz Ercil Cagitay, International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 2021/05/21

Today's concept of the day is the latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), which is the method used in this paper (18 page PDF) to analyze 41,925 journal articles published between 2000 and 2019. Basically the method uses an algorithm to group clusters of word stems into underlying topics. The study identified 16 topics reflecting "emerging trends and developments". Based on this, the authors say, "the next decade of e-learning studies will focus on learning factors and algorithms, which will possibly create a baseline for more individualized and adaptive mobile platforms." I think this is interesting but (perhaps unavoidably) vague. Terms like 'learning factors' and 'algorithms' are not very precise. Contrast with the "three main strands of DE research" identified in another IRRODL paper in the same issue: open education, online DE, and educational technology. The topics also overlap, meaning that the same trend is reported more than once by various topics.

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One Chart at a Time
Jon Schwabish, YouTube, 2021/05/21

This is something for your data literacy toolbox: a series of 56 videos hosted by Jon Schwabish on different types of data visualizations and charts. "This series will help you learn about more than just the standard bar, line, and pie chart. Join experts from all walks of the data visualization field--researchers, practitioners, freelancers, government, media, and the private sector--to learn more about how to effectively communicate your own data." This is what online learning looks like in 2021. Via Mike Taylor.

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