The following is yet another sign that the thesis is finally getting close to submission. The following is the second version of an abstract of the thesis. There have been some changes, feedback always welcome. Abstract This thesis seeks to offer an answer to the problem of how to design, implement and support information systems
Month: October 2010
No burden for TEQSA, yea right
The quote attributed to Lisa Paul illustrates the vast distance between her experience and that of staff within universities. The phrase “we’ll get to that after the AUQA audit” has been oft repeated at one institution I’m familiar with for at the best part of a year. It signifies important tasks being put to the
Ideas for extending the flexibility of BIM
The following explores some ideas for extensions to BIM based on a blog post from Dave Cormier. Dave’s post My summary of the post is that it describes the evolution of Dave’s approach to teaching/learning through a variety of attempts to build systems to support learning through to the eventual realisation that the system he
Time for a career change?
As work on the thesis is slowly finishing, I’m increasingly starting to think about the next chapter. What am I going to do post-PhD? The answer, potentially surprising for some, is probably going to high school teaching. Some context After 20 years working as an academic for a local university, around August this year my
Change in education, failure to learn and the commodification of university
20 years ago, straight from graduating, I started work as a part-time tutor within a Department of Mathematics and Computing. Within a few years it was obvious to a naive computing person that the mathematics part of the department was in trouble. Fewer and fewer people were enrolling in the mathematics programs, but they still
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The problem with blended learning
Once I get out from under the PhD, I’m hoping to expand an initial idea attacking the rhetoric of blended learning currently in vogue in some parts of higher education. The purpose of this quote is to save a quote that I’ve just come across for that expansion, and also to summarise the idea. At
Making the LMS more like the Globe Theatre: distributed cognition, the extended mind and Moodle
The following draws together some work on distributed cognition in the Globe Theatre and some early thoughts on how that might be useful in improving the design of learning management systems such as Moodle (there’s also an argument to be made about university teaching and learning, but I’ll mostly leave that alone). While primarily focusing
