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Friday, October 27, 2017

The University of Queensland transforms learning experience with video

Kaltura and Blackboard announced on 23 October that their joint customer, the University of Queensland, is leveraging video within the Learning Management System (LMS) to transform the learning experience, with an emphasis on student assessment. Since launching the service in 2013, the University’s Kaltura system has generated over 1 million views on top of its other lecture capture services.
With 50,000 students, the University of Queensland is one of the largest Australian institutions of higher education. Staff and students currently leverage video for several use cases, including student assessment, transforming online courses with video learning materials in the LMS, and creating welcome messages for students before a course commences.
The University of Queensland reports that video assessment has made important strategic contributions to the university for several key reasons – (1) it fits the strategic focus on group work and active learning; (2) it greatly helps with the University’s focus on identifying verified assessment; and (3) it is a more efficient assessment process for coordinators than traditional face to face assessments. Furthermore, compared to YouTube, the Kaltura system complies with IP use and student privacy requirements.
Led by the University’s eLearning team, student video assessment is now a popular and effective form of assessment of communication skills and understanding of material. The capability was first introduced in 2013 when the Kaltura video tools were added to the University’s Blackboard Learn system.
“The University puts a great emphasis on using innovative technologies and learning methodologies, that are both engaging and measurable,” said Dr. Simon Collyer, Manager – eLearning Systems and Support; Learning and Research Services, University of Queensland. “Our video assessment program has been extremely successful due to the ease of use of Kaltura’s video tools, integrated directly into the Blackboard LMS that faculty and students are accustomed to working with. It’s a very powerful combination that has enabled us to seamlessly incorporate video and cater to today’s digital generation of students.”
Video assessment is handled at the University using a simple, integrated workflow between Kaltura and Blackboard. Faculties easily assign video assignments to students in a wide range of departments, including Biology; Tourism; Accounting; Physiology and more. Students then upload their video assignments to the Blackboard LMS for marking, with staff using the Blackboard assignment tool for reviewing and grading the assignment.
“As YouTube viewers watch more than 1 billion hours of video every day, it’s clear that every organization needs to quickly ramp up its use of video,” said Dr. Michal Tsur, Kaltura Co-founder, President & General Manager - Enterprise & Learning. “The University of Queensland is a perfect example of how video can be used to transform teaching and learning.”

Friday, October 20, 2017

amazon and alibaba investment of 20 billion dollars in future of work could just change education

last week jack ma announced 15 billion dollar investment in damo academy for researching how artificial inteliigence and other tech revolutions can create jobs- he's searching for a first 7 cities in this worldwide academy

 yesterday saw amazon close its competition for which us city wants a 5 billion dollar investment in its 2nd hq- what's most innovative was amazon competition rfp clarified a city that isnt developing education for future tech workforce as well as integrating its cultures doestn need to apply-

 those of us who value 21st being mapped around people-centric economies hope that after the selection cities share all the best ideas of their rfp in a way that move education forward as core of development economics gov offices at every regional level

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

commission loveq and greatest livelihoods #learninggeneration with brown solberg ma kim and

star of 2018 edition president macron missing curricula plea that french as second language is priroritised with 10 times more affordable english and chiense as second languages .. note to students get french universities to join in cataloguing world fav communities for all networks (eg special olympics, monica yunus' singforhope.org)  - to linkin 2024 paris olympics; 2020 tokyo-alibaba olympics- back in Ediburgh educom leader gordon brown launches plea for belt road as missing curriculum of global youth/sustainability empowerment

==============sept 2017 birth of education commission & greatest #learningeneration===

if the world of education isnt transformed beyond the over-examined classroom - half of all youth will be unemployable
Scotland's most loyal people-centric economist , Gordon Brown, has now assembled 30 national leaders and counting invite families and youth to change the world of education and media - why change if we keep old education half of all youth will be underemployed- lets unite the greatest #learninggeneration - thanks to these leaders
justin van fleet
  Commission - most exciting report on education to be issued UN NY 18 Sept
Coursera - Education

Co-covenors : Norway’s PM Erna Solberg,  Chile’s Michelle Bachelet Indonesia’s Joko Widodo,  Malawi’s Peter Mutharika, UNESCO Irina Bokova  acceptance by Ban Ki-Moon

Commissioners Gordon Brown (chair, scotland);  Jim KimJack Ma (China),  Gracia Machel (S Africa), Amartya Sen,

Ananat Agarwal, Jose Manuel Barroso, Felipe Calderon (Mexico), Kristin Clemet (Norway),  Aliko Dangote (Nigeria), Julia Gilard, Bael Raza Jamil (Pakistan), Amel Karboul (Tunisia), Jakaya Kikwete (tanzania), Yuriko Koike (Japan), Anthony Lake (UNICEF), Ju-Ho Lee (South Korea),  Strive Masiyowa Zimbabwe telecom billionnaire,  Teopisyta Biriungi Mayanja (S Korea), Shakira Mebarak Superstar singer from Colombia, Patricio Meller (Chile),  Ngozi Oko0nzo-Iweala (Nigeria), Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi (United Arab Emirates),  Kailash Satyarthi (india),  Theo Sowa (African Women Development), Lawrence Summers, Helle Thorning Schmidt (SAve The Children International)

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here are some global youth in development deadlines and curricula that most concern my family and global under 30s  friends

18 september gordon brown and 30 national commissioners led by China's Jack Ma launch at UN- what could education be if it wholly valued youths livelihoods and borderless positive opportunities of  www   

2 - a very small group of young chinese and africa-american ladies have been informally checking with educators over the last year so at minimum we hope to be able to host some youth cafes out of new york either side of the UN's launch but we are looking for how to brief youth to hub similar collaboration cafes in other cities- the chinese have been asked by sir fazle abed of brac to keep him in the reporting loop; we have a similar request emerging from women leaders of financial centers and project everyone's sustainability goals  around the world

3 we are developing a social incubation hub network targeted at innovations worth a billion dollars if they help girls build local communities around the world but where the inventor doesnt mainly want most of that in monetary extraction- and instead wants to be at mobile connected epicentres of amplifying social good and related livelihoods; its also our process that such innovations need to be marketed through open education modalities such as peer to peer learning,  not through advertising  ABC  google/bing/baidu

4 our dubai summit www.gycommunity.com  run by youth but banked by nations leaders is due to happen 29 november

5 our elder associates in dc are continuing to extend their cable tv network around the world focusing in green jobenomics and ways of transforming market sectors so that community-supported and family SMEs can thrive- unlike the thing extracting economy, we determine value round  postindustriual growth of places or nations can only be (developing/mas flourishing) people centric- and economists who argues the opposite is not in line with adam smith or any work my family has ever tried to mediate including father (keynes last student)  at The Economist and grandfather with gandhi in mumbai for 25 years before writing up legalese of india's independence

6 there are some particularly urgent health and  baltimore and jim kim vision issues but these are very specific to research on the world record book of job creation which may be too controversial for some -eg due to politics, america is falling down the league of job creators as far as our worldwide youth panel can see

many thanks for your consideration
chris macrae 240 316 8157  www.economistuniversity.com