6480: Week 1
For this week, write a 350-500 word reflection on where you are at this stage in terms of your confidence in your topic, where you are at with the literature review related to your dissertation, and how happy you are with your proposed research methods. Explain the origin of your topic and why you are…
Keep reading6200 – End of Course Reflection
Reflection Topic: Reflect on this course. What are some research takeaways? Practical takeaways? How can train others on message design? This should be a 5-6 paragraph on findings and things you learned during this course. This course on message design in learning technologies proved to be quite challenging for me, especially given the workload compressed…
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Complete your final reflection on your final project paper (i.e., Implementation Research Design). With your final revised implementation research design turned in, how do you feel about what you did? With my final submission, I feel so-so about it. I put a lot of work into the paper and then used the paper as a…
Keep reading6220 – Reflection 2
Prompt: How do you feel your Implementation Theory Presentation went? What did you learn from the readings you did that went into your presentation? How do you feel the presentation information conveyed to your classmates what they need to know? Well, I think my presentation was only so-so. This has been a challenging semester for…
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What implementation will you study? For the final assignment, I will write about implementing Kolb’s Experiential Learning Theory in a professional development course for new faculty. The course will teach about Kolb’s Theory within a structure that aligns with Kolb’s methodology. Why will you study this implementation? I originally chose Kolb’s Theory because this is…
Keep reading6200 – Mid-Course Reflection
Prompt: Reflect on all the learning theories that you have learned in the course so far. Identify 5 components that you can incorporate in teaching and learning. How could these components help learners? Discuss what you have learned so far in this course. What are the take-aways and what would you like to learn more?…
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What are two of the most significant ethical considerations we need to address in AI? How should these issues be addressed locally and globally? Ethical and appropriate use of artificial intelligence should be a global movement. Regulations should be enacted, and experimental AI use cases should be monitored. Additionally, sanctions should be enforced if a…
Keep reading6200 – Reflection 1
What did you think Message Design was before the reading? Honestly, I was not sure what this topic would encompass. But I felt like it might have something to do with email communications because, for me, that is my most frequent mode of messaging. Yet now that I reflect on this topic, my initial thoughts…
Keep reading6220: Reflection 1
Which implementation theory did you choose and why? I was eager to select Experiential Learning Theory. Our teaching & learning center conducts a formal Academic Boot Camp (ABC) training for new faculty members. During this intense, week-long course we teach faculty about foundations such as How to write a good learning objective to Incorporating innovative…
Keep reading6240 – Assignment 1
Assignment 1 – Questions & Response According to Rouhiainen, which is more difficult to process – structured or unstructured data and why? Unstructured data is more difficult to process because it includes more complicated data such as images, videos, social media posts, shared links, digital communication, etc. This type of data is more difficult to…
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Prompt: Imagine that you have the task of preparing tomorrow’s workers for a retraining program. What would be the top five skills that you would have workers develop and why?How would you implement your training program? Q1: What would be the top five skills that you would have workers develop and why? I believe we must…
Keep reading6516 – Week 16 Reflection
What was new? What did you already know that was refined? Computer-mediated discourse analysis was a new qualitative method for me, and perhaps my biggest takeaway from this class. As society continues to move deeper into utilizing digital devices as a main mode of communication, our ability to refine our research and analysis of these…
Keep reading6516 – Week 7b Reflection
Prompt: Week 7b Reflection on Readings This particular week the module focused on a classroom activity and not readings. Unfortunately, we did not get the opportunity to partake in the planned classroom activity, so my Reflection post will stay a bit from the expected review. For this module, I honed into a subtle hyperlink that…
Keep reading6516: Week 4 – Reflection
PROMPT: Describe the methods you explored and how you decided your top choice is best aligned to your potential dissertation topic. Post this in your blog. Like many scholars, I have been enthused and overwhelmed by the current state of technology innovations with the recent introduction of ChatGPT to the commercial market. The limitless potential…
Keep reading6516 – Week Three Topic: The value of CMDA for research
The article “Computer-mediated discourse analysis: an approach to researching online communities” (Herring, 2004), discusses the importance of computer-mediated discourse analysis (CMDA) for researching online communities. The author explains how CMDA can be used to analyze communication patterns in online communities and understand how people use language to interact in these digital contexts. The article highlights…
Keep reading6516: Week 3 – Reflection
What did you learn about CMDA from your readings? I went down a rabbit hole of how CMDA can be applied to conversations surrounding ChatGPT and other AI chatbots. The article Data-driven artificial intelligence to automate researcher assessment (Weber & Duarte, 2021) presents a data-driven AI approach to automate researcher assessment by classifying candidate researchers…
Keep readingDiscussion for week 2
Prompt: what are your thoughts about helping people solve complex and ill-structured problems? To solve complex or poorly designed problems, we must try to break down those problems into smaller and more manageable components. By breaking down the problem into smaller parts we can begin to understand the complexities of the more significant problem. One…
Keep reading6516 – Week 1: Personal Research View
What is my general worldview in terms of what I think can be known, why that is the case, and how we can best understand the world? What a deep question. We can only know what we choose to discover. The quantity of what can be known is limitless if we are willing to pursue…
Keep reading6250: Week 16: Reflection
Part 1. How do you feel about your implementation and evaluation plans? Did they work well for you? How was the teamwork and how would you assess your own performance? I felt that the Implementation and Evaluation Plans were forced. It was an excellent process to walk through, and the plans were very well designed with…
Keep reading6250: Week 9: reflection
PROMPT: What have you come to understand about the complexity of even simple systems? There are many layers and encounters with even the simplest of systems. In some cases, the complexities intertwine thereby making the process even more complex. PROMPT: What have you learned about yourself as a learner and budding research analyst? This week…
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