CONSULTING SPECIALIZATIONS INSIGHTS COMPANY CONTACT Home Insights Articles Articles LTI 1.3 Dynamic Registration or “How I Met Your Platform”. September, 2021 LTI 1.3 has greatly advanced the integration of edtech applications. It offers improvements in security with the use of OIDC, Oauth2, and JWT tokens, and flexibility with the use of the LTI Advantages Services such Deep Linking, Grades and Assignments, and Membership. Contrasting System Architectures - An Overview of Serverless and Traditional Approaches June, 2021 You're starting a new software project, or you’re concerned that your current solutions may have significant limitations that you’d like to remove. You've heard about some dev teams choosing a "serverless" architecture, you've heard lots of talk about "cloud native", and every third article on Hacker News seems to be about Kubernetes. You begin to wonder if and how any of these new or established solutions can help alleviate your project’s pain points. DevOps Principles for Content Creation March, 2021 You’re an Instructional Designer or another flavor of content creator. You’ve attended a few meetings recently, big meetings that all the “technical folks” and your authoring team have been a part of. The topic was “DevOps” as a practice, how it’s going to speed up your ability to produce content, and allow your team to release your product more frequently. Building the “Alexa, write my quiz” Skill Part 3: Generating Canvas Quizzes with the Canvas API January, 2021 Over the past few months, I have been working on a project to build an Alexa skill that could utilize PDF files that instructors already have to generate quizzes. First, I built the Alexa skill based off of a Lex chatbot that a previous group had created, using the Canvas API to retrieve a PDF test bank or glossary file that would get converted into a quiz database. Building the “Alexa, write my quiz” Skill Part 2: Review & Application of Machine Learning Technologies for Glossary Text Extraction October, 2020 Machine learning allows us to consume large quantities of data in order to bring new life to expansive corpuses in a variety of industries, such as education. The sheer quantity of digitizable educational materials, including textbooks, lecture notes, class notes, and academic publications is astounding, not to mention all of the hobbyists and creators who have started making educational content specifically for the Internet via blog posts, videos, and games. With the growing plethora of information available at the fingertips of artificial intelligence (AI), it feels like it is only a matter of time before AI can generate highly coherent materials to present to a learner on a topic, providing invaluable assistance to teachers. Building the “Alexa, write my quiz” Skill Part 1 October, 2020 Voice assistants, such as Amazon’s Alexa, make it feel like we’re already living in a future that was once only science fiction. Today, the most effective use of voice assistants is to answer questions that people ask regularly. This makes for a perfect match with many issues in the education space, since the learning process presents uniquely recurring and time-intensive challenges. Teaching and Learning from a Distance September, 2020 The rapid shoehorning of education into the digital space The Preface In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we at Unicon have reached out to our network of instructors, students, parents, and learning institutions to better understand the changing landscape of education. Being deeply entrenched in all things teaching and learning, Three Approaches to Creating a Canvas Template September, 2020 A comparison of creating a course template in Canvas by Instructure with 1) only the Rich Text Editor, 2) a combination of HTML Editor and Rich Text Editor, and 3) using custom CSS. Each approach has pros and cons. What Open Education Standard Do I Use When? September, 2020 Prior to 2020, educational tool interoperability might have been a nice-to-have; however, with most schools having a large portion of their curriculum online for Fall 2020, it is now critical. Guide to Content Transformation August, 2020 Getting Things Where You Need Them To Be As we have worked with organizations to support their learning requirements during recent months, we have found several Pagination 1 2 3 Next page ›› Last page Last » Insights and News Articles Blogs Case Studies Ebooks Podcasts Webinars News Events (480) 558 - 2400 1760 E. Pecos Road Suite 432 Gilbert, AZ 85295 info@unicon.net For over 25 years we've been helping our clients apply the right teams, strategies, and tech to keep them aligned with the evolving world of online learning. Recent Case Studies Useful Links Careers Events Industry Partners News and Media COPYRIGHT PRIVACY POLICY SPECIALIZATIONS CONTACT US