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    Florida State professors are studying the use of AI in education

    WFSU breaks down AI in education on our weekly program, Speaking Of. “I think we’re all trying to figure out still exactly what the future is going to look like with AI,” says Vanessa Dennen, FSU’s Tyner Distinguished Professor of Education. She is researching how AI is being used in educational settings, and she uses it a lot, like figuring out how to modify an assignment for a student with a visual disability. “It was wonderful because there was an assignment that was focused on having the students create something that was very visual,” Dennen says. “It suggested that I have the student create an audio based project… My brain just…

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    Handbook of Open, Distance, and Digital Education [open access book]

    Many chapters of the new Handbook of Open, Distance, and Digital Education (an open access book) are already online in anticipation of final publication at the end of 2022. Check out some of the chapters by MEME group members. And check out the whole book while you’re at it … it’s a great resource. Dennen, V. P., & Jones, M. K. (2022). The role of the online instructor: A nexxus of skills, activities, and values that support learning. In O. Zawacki-Richter & I. Jung (Eds.), Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0351-9_62-1 [PDF] Bong, J. Y., & Liu, Z. (2022). Media usage behaviors of learners in ODDE. In O.…

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    New open book! Global perspectives on educational innovations for emergency situations

    A new edited volume has been published, titled Global Perspectives on Educational Innovations for Emergency Situations. Published by Springer as part of the Educational Communications and Technology: Issues and Innovations book series, the book was inspired by sessions at the 2020 Association for Educational Communications & Technology conference. With funding from AECT and the editors’ institutions and departments (including funding from FSU’s open access fund – many thanks!) the book is open access. Members of the MEME group have 2 chapters in this volume: Dennen, V., & Bong, J. (2022). Open, flexible, and serving others: Meeting needs during a pandemic and beyond. In V. Dennen, C. Dickson-Deane, X. Ge, D.…

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