A pessimistic optimist’s journey through learning, teaching and technology
Yesterday’s part 3 in this series of posts continued the higher level examination of book usage. i.e. what types of courses use the Moodle Book module (the Book). This post is going to continue that a little and then start to make some forays into looking more closely at how resources produced using the Book
Continue reading Exploring Moodle book usage – part 4 – students and initial use
Updated 30 August, 2016: Added mention of @downes’ pointers to peer review literature using SAMR. Evolved into a small section There definitely seems to be a common problem when it comes to thinking about evaluating the use of digital technology in learning and teaching. Actually, there are quite a few, but the one I’m interested
Continue reading On the value or otherwise of SAMR, RAT etc.
The following seeks to engage with some thoughts shared by Brigitte, bring together some earlier ramblings of my own, and connect this with R&D related work I should be doing over coming months (though it’s historically rare for those plans to come to fruition). The title of Brigitte’s post is the question “What is networked
Continue reading Understanding and using the idea of "network learning"
Continuing on from yesterday’s post this post seeks to explore a bit further how the Moodle Book module (the Book) is being used at my current institution. The plan is that this post will explore: What percentage of all courses are using the Book? How big are the courses using the Book? Follow up posts
Continue reading Exploring Moodle book usage – part 3 – who and how much
This is the second in a series of posts exploring the usage of the Moodle Book module at my current institution. The first post gave some background and outlined an initial series of questions about Book usage that I’m aiming to explore. This post reports on initial findings related to the following Correctly identify the
Continue reading Exploring Moodle Book usage – part 2 – overall use
I’m due to have the slides for a Moodlemoot Australia presentation in a few weeks. Time to get organised. The following is (perhaps) the first of a sequence of posts reporting on progress toward that presentation and the related research. Background My interest in research is primarily driven by the observation that most educational usage
Continue reading Exploring Moodle Book Module usage – part 1 – background and planning
In a couple of the courses I teach I ask students (for slightly different purposes) the question from the title of this post, “How many digital devices do you have?”. In one of the courses that question takes the form of a quiz and looks something like the following. Question text How many different digital
A new semester and the Networked and Global Learning course is running again. Apologies to those in the other courses I teach, but this course is consistently the most engaging and interesting. It’s a course in which I typically learn as much as the other participants. However, due to the reasons/excuses outlined in the last
Due to a combination of personal and institutional flaws (the information systems and enterprise processes within Universities continue to be “interesting”) that last month or so has been pretty horrendous from a work perspective. Only now starting to get some space to reflect on what’s been happening and engage more students and research. My apologies
Continue reading Open Educational Practice: the boring way and more interesting ways
Below are collection of resources related to a presentation given at Moodle Moot’AU 2016, titled “How and why do people use the Moodle Book Module?” The Graphs section below provides links to individual web pages that contain many of the charts included in the presentation slides below. The graphs are interactive. Roll the mouse over
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Thinking outloud