When you look inside a major system or an App, is what it is doing causing any learning? What are the instructional qualities of digital programming? The problem with choosing digial resources is often the question of its actual raw instructional qualities, the "what" of the knowledge inside it. Yet there is more to know. Find out about concepts like chunking, citation checking, digital authenticity, just-in-time tutorials, algorithmic inference engines and more.
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Instructional Qualities of Digital - Does it Cause Learning?
• Sept. 1, 2021
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