Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

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There's a bot for that! Chatbots to stimulate learning and reflection

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

I'm not on Facebook messenger myself so I do not know what a chat is." Via the Apple appstore Poncho de Weather cat will tell you the weather and crack a joke via Facebook messenger Work on your health with the Healthybot. There are bots who ask you for information and return it to you at certain time. Why are chatbots hot?

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Doctors versus internet: who is better at diagnosing?

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

Now you can find a lot of information online, and scientific studies are becoming easier to find. R ecent research in Belgium shows that 91 percent of Belgians look up information about their ailments and aches on the internet. There is so much information available on the Internet: you have to be sharper on your added value.

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How to stimulate creativity in online teams: A 100% online process to design a blended learning trajectory

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

In between there were a number of assignments, eg searching for cases or information. Our tools set consisted of Adobe Connect in combination with Google docs and a Facebook Workplace group. The sessions took place in a period of one month, if we had longer we could have planned more time in between the sessions, but we had a deadline.

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What can you learn from a chatbot?

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

So he sent me to the page with information about sending a defective product. In Facebook Messenger you can get CNN news via a personalised chatmessage. My question: "I have a defective product which is guaranteed, what should I do" was understood as a warranty question. That page I had not found myself!

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Yammer for internal knowledge sharing for health care and policy making

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

The messages can be slightly longer than on Twitter and it is easier to reply (looks a lot like Facebook). 38% of our time we spend looking for information and Yammer can reduce that time span. Someone from KLM told me for instance he was looking for someone who could explain their wiki system to him.

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Social media for trainers: think differently!

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

The workshop was quite successful as measured by the people who contacted me afterwards for more information, to buy my book or to ask whether they could share our test Yammer and test Ning with their colleagues. Some trainers were still at zero, a few were halfway, being a member of a few Linkedin groups and maybe on Facebook.

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Social media: 4 opportunities for secondary education

Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning

What struck me in the informal conversations with teachers is that there are huge differences in the way teachers react to these opportunities. What if they play games or chat with friends on Facebook rather than doing their assignments? A minority are real pioneers, read edublogs, twitter, experiment and are excited.