informal learning
Expanding AI Awareness Through Everyday Interactions with AI: A Reflective Journal Study
As the application of AI continues to expand, students in technology programs are poised to be both producers and users of the technologies. They are also positioned to engage with AI applications within and outside the classroom. While focusing on the curriculum when examining students' AI knowledge is common, extending this connection to students' everyday interactions with AI provides a more complete picture of their learning. In this paper, we explore student's awareness and engagement with AI in the context of school and their daily lives. Over six weeks, 22 undergraduate students participated in a reflective journal study and submitted a weekly journal entry about their interactions with AI. The participants were recruited from a technology and society course that focuses on the implications of technology on people, communities, and processes. In their weekly journal entries, participants reflected on interactions with AI on campus (coursework, advertises campus events, or seminars) and beyond (social media, news, or conversations with friends and family). The journal prompts were designed to help them think through what they had read, watched, or been told and reflect on the development of their own perspectives, knowledge, and literacy on the topic. Overall, students described nine categories of interactions: coursework, news and current events, using software and applications, university events, social media related to their work, personal discussions with friends and family, interacting with content, and gaming. Students reported that completing the diaries allowed them time for reflection and made them more aware of the presence of AI in their daily lives and of its potential benefits and drawbacks. This research contributes to the ongoing work on AI awareness and literacy by bringing in perspectives from beyond a formal educational context.
eLearning Trends In 2020 To Look Out For - eLearning Industry
In December 2019, I began work on my eBook and this article on eLearning trends in 2020. This is the ninth in a series of articles and eBooks on eLearning trends since 2017. Here is my list of eLearning trends in 2020. I believe all of these will be an integral part of workplace learning in the near future. Given the large number of trends, I have logically grouped them into 3 sections.
#ectel2019 #mlearn2019 keynote @GeoffStead on #informal learning at scale #languages #AI
Geoff Stead (@geoffstead) takes the stage with a headset, a black shirt and walking like a fit Californian surfer (looking great). As chief product person of the Babbel language corporation, he talks about informal learning at scale and will offer insights. Well over 1 million subscribers (of which I am one - Spanish). Digital scale and reach Team of 10 people can start the magic of the web. How can we ensure Quality?
Why AI Changes Your Relationship With LMS - eLearning Industry
Voltaire once said that the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. We don't have to go quite as far in acknowledging the imbalance in the constituent parts of Learning Management Systems. And the learning that is there isn't delivered when learners really need it, nor in the form they need it. We need a new type of LMS for the way we want and need to learn today. With AI we have the potential to put learners at the center and at the same time have them better understand and manage their learning.