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Teaching a graduate seminar on technology and innovation

Posted on August 18, 2019 by Bryan Alexander

In a couple of weeks I’ll start teaching two graduate seminars in Georgetown University’s Learning, Design, and Technology program.  I’d like to share my plans with you all as part of my commitment to transparency in practice. Today I’ll describe … Continue reading →

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What’s the best book about emerging technologies and education? A syllabus query.

Posted on April 20, 2019 by Bryan Alexander

In one month my emerging technologies and education seminar will begin (Emerging Tech and Education – 17121 – LDES 707 – 01).  Already the syllabus is crystallizing, like some cross between a Transformer toy and a Max Ernst painting. One … Continue reading →

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Which AI project should my students work on for a summer class?

Posted on April 12, 2019 by Bryan Alexander

Here’s a request, dear readers.  Which AI software should my students work with? Some context: I’m teaching a summer class on emerging technologies for teaching and learning (and that’s enormously exciting).  Right now I plan to have students looking into … Continue reading →

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My class visits an augmented reality exhibit

Posted on April 7, 2019 by Bryan Alexander

After my ed tech seminar’s week on virtual/augmented/mixed reality, the students came up with a plan for a field trip.  Just across town from our Georgetown campus, the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History had added an augmented reality dimension to … Continue reading →

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A cruel pedagogical exercise I inflicted upon my students

Posted on March 24, 2019 by Bryan Alexander

Several weeks ago I conducted a cruel pedagogical experiment. The class topic that day was mobile technology.  I wanted to get students thinking about how mobility allows us to shake up learning spaces, but didn’t want to convey the idea … Continue reading →

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My new class is about educational technology

Posted on January 4, 2019 by Bryan Alexander

I will be teaching a new class starting in about a week. It’s a graduate seminar on educational technology for Georgetown University’s master’s program in learning, teaching, and design, hosted by the CNDLS program, the same fine group that hosted … Continue reading →

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My class, two weeks in

Posted on September 16, 2018 by Bryan Alexander

Teaching for the first time in sixteen years continues to be exhilarating and fascinating. LDES-703 is an interesting experiment, a hybrid on several levels.  Our live sessions take place one night each week.  For those most of the students gather … Continue reading →

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Heading into my new class

Posted on September 8, 2018 by Bryan Alexander

This week I started teaching my first class since 2002.  I’d like to blog about the experience. In this post I’ll describe what I hope to achieve with the class: how I’m organizing it and what I expect.  I’ll add … Continue reading →

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I return to teaching

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Bryan Alexander

It might be early July this week, but I’m thinking… back to school!  That’s because this fall I will teach a university class for the first time in a while. The class concerns the future of higher education.  Its full … Continue reading →

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