{"id":681,"date":"2014-11-17T13:06:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-17T17:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/?p=681"},"modified":"2014-11-17T13:07:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T17:07:33","slug":"actively-learn-a-new-favourite-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/actively-learn-a-new-favourite-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Actively Learn &#8211; A New Favourite App!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelearningconsortium.org\/learn\/teaching-certificates\/\" target=\"_blank\">OLC Teaching Certificate<\/a> program, I stumbled upon an individual who was using something called Actively Learn within the course they were developing. I&#8217;m always keen to check out new technologies, and I wasn&#8217;t let down by this one!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.activelylearn.com\" target=\"_blank\">Actively Learn<\/a> allows you to create deeper engagement and instructor presence in an asynchronous environment by allowing you to provide markup within your readings and incorporate interactive quizzing. Once I watched the demo for this application, I knew I had to make a push to my faculty members to begin using it within their online courses. So far, I&#8217;ve demoed it to 2 people and recommended it to 3 people currently developing courses&#8230;and it&#8217;s only been three days!<\/p>\n<p>I see it being useful for courses that require a good amount of synthesis, as it can allow students to form more well-rounded understanding of the readings instead of just passively engaging with the materials. I also think that by combining questions (which the students must answer before moving on) allows the students to have a greater understanding of the materials as a whole, which may in turn lead to greater academic achievement.<\/p>\n<p>I recorded a quick demo (below), and it&#8217;s obvious that I&#8217;m still new to the technology myself, but I wanted to show both the teacher and student perspective. Check it out and see how you can make Actively Learn work for you!<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/112071933\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week, in the OLC Teaching Certificate program, I stumbled upon an individual who was using something called Actively Learn within the course they were developing. I&#8217;m always keen to check out new technologies, and I wasn&#8217;t let down by this one! Actively Learn allows you to create deeper engagement and instructor presence in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[3],"tags":[14],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4s3cq-aZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleychiasson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}