Welcome to Design Talk. This episode resurrects a recording from the College of Business Intercultural Forum bite-sized workshop series, session 7. A conversation with Jacob Eisenberg and Allen Higgins on “adapting experiential learning to the digital classroom”. The talk was hosted by Kathleen O’Reilly and Linda Yang.

Key takeaways:

Students benefit from being in control of at least some of the settings within which learning experiences unfold so, consider using multiple apps rather than integrated systems, for example, separate the video presence experience (e.g. Zoom or Teams) from the digital whiteboard from the shared document.

• We should encourage experimentation with tools, old and new alike.
• Experiment with multiple means of engagement like polls, MCQs, discussion boards but feel free to drop a tool if you feel it doesn’t work well.
• Always be seeking copious feedback from learners all the time. The difficulties or challenges they encounter may be intrinsic to the learning process rather than problems to solve but just knowing where they are in the learning process is valuable; for example, are they stuck, is there a shared misunderstanding or misconception, or knowing who has made progress so they might act as a catalyst for the wider group.
• Use breakout rooms tactically to scale up and scale down groups to sizes appropriate to the activity.

Acknowledgements

Music

Title: Monologue Lu-Fugi octave climb with extra notes with wa wa with other tweaks

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: introoutro

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

License note: Includes derivative work from KORG Monologue/Sound presets by KORG Inc. permitted under Terms of Use (https://korg.shop/terms-of-use) Section 2: “Derivative works and their authors benefit in turn from the full protection of copyright without prejudicing the rights of the original work's author”.

Cover Art

Title: Complex collage

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: vignette_version.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Acknowledgements

Music

Title: Monologue Lu-Fugi octave climb with extra notes with wa wa with other tweaks

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: introoutro

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

License note: Includes derivative work from KORG Monologue/Sound presets by KORG Inc. permitted under Terms of Use (https://korg.shop/terms-of-use) Section 2: “Derivative works and their authors benefit in turn from the full protection of copyright without prejudicing the rights of the original work's author”.

Cover Art

Title: Complex collage

Artist: Allen Higgins

Source: vignette_version.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Hosted by Christina Philips and Anabela Da Silva Filipe Soares.

Welcome to today’s seminar by Stefan Helfrich.

In this session Stefan talks about the education paths on offer for data analytics and the need for balance between learning concepts versus hands-on experiences with tools. Stefan makes the case for the value of visual workflow approaches for teaching and implementing analytics.

How do we do that? KNIME implements a well-documented, comprehensive and capable software environment that enables users to design and operate data analytics workflows visually using the following objects:

· Nodes perform tasks on data. Nodes have inputs and outputs. Nodes have status/indicators. Nodes are natively implemented in Java. Python scripts may also be used as code nodes.

· Connectors link nodes. Connectors indicate data flows. Connectors send data from one node to another. Connectors have direction. Nodes plus connectors enable you to create workflows.

· Workflows are designed aggregates of nodes linked using connectors

· Components/Metanodes encapsulate discrete sub-workflows. Component/metanodes can be used like nodes.

· A large library of pre-build nodes and metanodes are offered for common tasks like cleaning up data, visualization, plug into Tableau and PowerBI.

· Supports all types of data.

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Further reading, sources, mentions and acknowledgements.

Stefan Helfrich -- https://www.linkedin.com/in/stefanhelfrich/

KNIME – https://www.knime.com/

See the KNIME Educators Alliance and the Teaching Materials Repository.

References:

Berthold, M. R. (2019). What Does It Take to be a Successful Data Scientist? Harvard Data Science Review, 1(2)

Further reading:

For examples, additional teaching materials, sample curriculum, see “The Data Science Guide” – www.datascienceguide.org

Unless otherwise noted, the teaching materials (including workflow examples, code examples, and slides) are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0).

Music

Title: Guitar House

Artist: josh pan (2020)

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL-LId8ZWBM

License: License CC BY 3.0

Cover Art

Title: We need You! Visual Analytics

Artist: Nuno Machado and Allen Higgins

Source: vignette_version.pptx

License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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Welcome to Design Talk.

In this episode I give a short talk titled “Doshite Nippon?” for Naonori sensei’s 'Gateways to Japan' discovery module at University College Dublin. The talk was recorded on April 1st 2025.

Kodate sensei is founding Director of the UCD Centre for Japanese Studies and Director of the Public Policy Programme in UCD.

Why Japan? I contend that it is good to experience the ordinary strangeness of a culture that is quite different to one’s own. My starting point is to consider the classic images of Japan after which I strive to give a flavour of what it is like to live and work there.

Notes

Naonori – https://people.ucd.ie/naonori.kodate

Allen – https://people.ucd.ie/allen.higgins

Gateways to Japan (DSCY10080)

JET – The Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (see JET Ireland), established in 1987 and still running, invites third level graduates from overseas to participate in international exchange and foreign language education throughout Japan.

interac –Japan’s largest provider of ALTs (Assistant Language Teachers) https://interacnetwork.com

Japan Digital Nomad Association – https://japandigitalnomad.com/en/

Images:

四季と酒

shi ki to o-sake

These are: the four distinct seasons.

Haru (春) Springtime cherry blossoms.

Natsu (夏) The lush greenery of summer holidays, flowers, fruit and heat.

Aki (秋) Autumn when the leaves turn red and orange and gold.

Fuyu(冬) Winter cold (really cold), snow, and cosy indoors.

Add to this Japan’s visually striking architecture: Buddist temples (tera/-ji), Shinto shrines (jinja), Torii (gateways), and Castles (shiro/-jo) – former seats of power from the medieval period.

And not to forget – sake!

Acknowledgements

Music

Title: Check Them In

Artist: Ema Grace

Source: https://bit.ly/2tJ6Bnd

License: CC BY 4.0

Artist notes: Ema Grace is an AI vocaloid produced by Ryoma MAEDA (@Ryoma_Maeda). Styled as virtual Singer&Idol 架空のバーチャルアイドル & シンガー、それがEma Grace.

Cover Art

Title: Japan Digital Nomads

Credit: Japan Digital Nomads Association

Source: https://japandigitalnomad.com

License:

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