So, I have a problem. What was a wonderful open source product was bought by a big publisher. I’m an open kind of guy so this has always been a bit disquieting. It recently got a bit worse. Seems Mendeley and Elsevier products will soon be more seamless. Suggesting time […]
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The following is an edited version of something used in a course I teach that’s currently hidden away in the LMS. I’m adding it here because I’m using it with another group of students. It’s a quick attempt to cover what I perceive to be a reasonable whole for many […]
The following is a summary and some thoughts on Harland (2014). The abstract for the paper is Learning about teaching through inquiry is a sound practice for professional development and the university teacher-as-researcher is now commonplace. With the proliferation of inquiry-based postgraduate programmes in university teaching, more academics from across […]
My name is David. I’m an academic. It’s been 8 years since my last journal paper (but what a paper it was, thanks Shirley). In my defence, for three of those years I was finishing the PhD, 1 year finishing a GDL&T, three years getting used to a new discipline, […]
The use of blogs in one of the courses I teach is now into it’s fourth semester. Well past time to do explore how it’s all going, evaluate some of the design decisions, and make some decisions about future developments. In preparation for that it’s time to look at some […]
After spending a few days visiting friends and family in Central Queensland – not to mention enjoying the beach – a long 7+ hour drive home provided an opportunity for some thinking. I’ve long had significant qualms about the notion of leadership, especially as it is increasingly being understood and […]
The following is an initial attempt to restart some earlier explorations of research methods that may prove useful in examining the “Story of BIM” for potential useful insights. The starting place is ethnography and auto ethnography and an exploration of some writings. Rescuing Autoethnography Atkinson, P. (2006). Rescuing Autoethnography. Journal […]
According to the WordPress dashboard for this blog this is the 1000th published post (I have 100 odd drafts that I never finished or thought better of posting). Given I’m about to mark first year in a new job in a new institution in a new region, undergo my annual […]
For a long time I’ve had a vague interest in narrative research, i.e. it’s one of those things I always meant to learn more about. Here are some initial explorations. Narrative approaches to education research My google for “narrative research method education” turns up this site from the UK as […]
Following up on a broader research idea the following paragraph summarises a nascent, more specific idea a colleague and I are stumbling toward. It fits within the broader agenda. Suggestions, volunteers, pointers and criticisms welcome. For now it’s just a single paragraph. Open source education is seen by Davidson and […]
If you hadn’t realised by now, this blog is often used as a notebook to record ideas in development. This is by no means complete, but the record is there. Did you catch the high buzz word content in the title of this post? It can possibly mean only one […]
So after three weeks at the new institution and busy thinking about how I’m going to do something interesting with my course design I find out that EOIs for a fairly large and beneficial set of research grants is due in a week or so. Bugger. No way I’m going […]
One of these days I plan/hope to have the time to catch up on some reading that I have let slide over the last couple of years. To this end this post marks a new practice. I’m using a “to read” category on this blog to save some detail of […]
