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RE: Data on Students Who Like/Dislike Online Courses?

Posted By Steve Covello 05-31-2023 02:53:00 PM
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Dr. Prupis - If it helps, Granite State College (soon to be UNH College of Professional Studies) has been offering fully online classes since 1999 while at the same time offering F2F. However, in the past 7 years or so, the number of enrollments for F2F dwindled to the point of being nearly irrelevant ...

RE: CHAT GPT

Posted By Steve Covello 12-28-2022 09:12:17 AM
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This topic has emerged as a top-level concern in Bryan Alexander's Future Trends community. He has compiled a running bibliography here: https://bryanalexander.org/future-trends-forum/chatgpt-and-higher-education-last-week-and-this-week/ I have conducted a few informal experiments pasting into chatGPT ...

RE: Augmented Reality is going to cause great chaos and force change in education

Posted By Steve Covello 12-07-2022 07:19:52 AM
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I was just sharing this article with my ID Team this morning - glad to see it is being recognized more widely. I sent a note with this article to the director of our Humanities curriculum with a offer to audit potential risk. I have to agree a bit with the author's cynical prediction that it will take ...

RE: Video CMS Platform Conversion

Posted By Steve Covello 10-06-2022 02:23:24 PM
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I would also like to add that the machine captioning in Kaltura's REACH is by far the most accurate of any machine captioning I have seen so far. With clean audio, it is remarkable. Thx - Steve Steve Covello Senior Instructional Designer Adjunct Faculty 603-513-1346 | granite.edu

RE: Classroom Demographic Use

Posted By Steve Covello 10-06-2022 01:01:58 PM
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Patrick - If the intent of a demographic survey is to predict the needs of students in an instructional context, I'd like to suggest an alternative from a user-based design approach. It is proposed that ascertaining the patterns of cognitive movement within the context of instruction is a more reliable ...

RE: Course Ownership

Posted By Steve Covello 10-05-2022 07:16:00 AM
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I am not an expert in this area but in the courses I have been hired to design/develop as an SME (outside of my regular work), the terms were always that it was work-for-hire, regardless of the resources used. Thus, unless there is an exception, the College owns the course and is free to do what it ...

RE: ePortfolios

Posted By Steve Covello 09-14-2022 06:54:04 AM
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The Graduate program here at Granite State College has been using Chalk & Wire (now Anthology Blackboard something-or-other) since 2013. There are upsides and downsides. If you wish to speak with me directly about C & W, I'd be glad to give you the nickel tour. Upsides: Strong assessment tools based ...

RE: Certification for Instructional Technology

Posted By Steve Covello 06-23-2022 03:00:46 PM
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I don't have a specific suggestion, but I will say that there is an excellent private Facebook group called Instructional Designers in Education (run by Peter G. Shea) where that question is frequently asked, and there are always many responses. It has 15k+ members from around the world, with varying ...

RE: Online Video Platform Feature Comparison Spreadsheet?

Posted By Steve Covello 04-04-2022 11:01:40 AM
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Raul - Excellent analysis! One other factor worth mentioning along those same lines has been whether the company does user testing before releasing their wares. I have experienced a great deal of frustration, historically, with one vendor in particular who has consistently released product features ...

RE: Online Video Platform Feature Comparison Spreadsheet?

Posted By Steve Covello 04-01-2022 01:07:00 PM
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I would also like to note that Kaltura's REACH automatic machine captioning feature is amazing! It is fast and more accurate than anything else I have seen. Thx - Steve Steve Covello Senior Instructional Designer Adjunct Faculty 603-513-1346 | granite.edu

RE: Online Video Platform Feature Comparison Spreadsheet?

Posted By Steve Covello 04-01-2022 11:09:36 AM
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Ken - In your consideration of Kaltura, did you look into the Annoto add-on? This is a feature that turns the regular Kaltura video player into an interactive threaded discussion. GSC, through USNH, currently uses Kaltura which has been a reliable but relatively basic video streaming platform. It ...

RE: Online Video Platform Feature Comparison Spreadsheet?

Posted By Steve Covello 03-30-2022 08:23:11 AM
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Charles - I have a smidge of experience in evaluating these types of systems from an instructional design perspective. The TL;DR findings are that: In-video quizzing is nice to have but it is relatively low on the spectrum of assessment strategies (compared to other more creative projects). Thus, ...

RE: CIDI Labs

Posted By Steve Covello 03-29-2022 07:28:57 AM
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I would like to confirm this frustrating experience, too. I found the user interface to be utterly unfriendly. Only someone with HTML/CSS chops had a decent chance to customize something and make it look right. The templates they offered used needlessly decorative images that were obviously stock footage-y. ...

RE: Zoom, Webex, MS Teams

Posted By Steve Covello 12-01-2021 09:20:24 AM
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Are you using the desktop application or the web application? I only use the web app. Thx - Steve Steve Covello Senior Instructional Designer Adjunct Faculty 603-513-1346 | Room 325 | granite.edu

RE: Zoom, Webex, MS Teams

Posted By Steve Covello 12-01-2021 07:17:04 AM
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Adding a Zoom meeting as part of Outlook requires the following: Create the appointment and click More Options. Click the Zoom icon in Outlook. Click Add a Zoom meeting Click Allow when asked to allow Zoom to display a new window. When the Zoom panel appears, type in the domain of the college in ...

RE: Zoom, Webex, MS Teams

Posted By Steve Covello 12-01-2021 06:59:27 AM
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I should mention that up until very recently, Teams would not permit screensharing on Mac OS 10.15 Catalina. That bug has just recently been quashed, but I cannot say whether it has been fixed for all versions of Mac OS X - just at least 10.15.7. Zoom integration into Outlook is a bit clumsy - there ...

RE: Evaluation System for Online Courses

Posted By Steve Covello 10-13-2021 07:39:00 AM
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Brian - I thought I'd offer some thoughts, even though I don't have a specific instrument to recommend. I've been an ID here at Granite State College since 2011 during a period of time when the College's online enrollments evolved from about 60% online to its current state of about 90% online. I have ...