VM Love Story?
I’ve told this one a few times in class – now the world can hear it.
The decision on how to access and use computing resources has become a wider field recently. No longer do we just go and purchase a new computer if we want to use a computer. That may seem odd, but with the ability to use Cloud systems or create purpose-built virtual machines – we don’t have…
Technology as an enabling tool in education is far from a new idea. The ability to leverage technology to assist in the learning process is a vast topic – and one that is at the heart of the majority of my writing, my teaching, and my YouTube Channel. Placing structure before toolsets is important. The…
The advancement of AI technology has brought numerous promises. We’ve been told that AI will make us more productive by “doing jobs for us” – but is that completely true? My experience with AI suggests that the best use of AI is to reduce time-to-delivery on projects and work that, ultimately, requires the human touch…
Back in the early days of the Internet (yeah..I was there), we used to speak about the promise of how the Internet would revolutionize education, learning, and bring out the best in people. It’s hard not to be a little cynical about the years since those dreamer days, but the Internet has made learning, teaching,…
Are we repeating the past? If you are old enough to remember the birth of the Internet – and specifically the rush to use web pages to communicate – then what we see today with AI may seem familiar. During the early days of the Internet, in order to “learn” about the Internet, people rushed…
The challenge with a lot of online courses, at least in my opinion, is that they are actually pretty boring. The pattern they follow seems to be: That’s pretty boring. It doesn’t surprise me that completion rates for these types of online courses is low. What we need are to take best practices from classroom…