It’s widely accepted that the most important part of learning and teaching is what the student does (Biggs, 2012). The spaces, tools and tasks in and through which students “do stuff” (i.e. learning, or not) are in some way designed by a teacher with subsequent learner adaptation (Goodyear, 2020). Designing […]
Update – now automated memex links In writing the following I stumbled across the idea that writing blog posts in Foam would enable the merging of content from Memex and blog posts. I then discovered it didn’t work out of the box. More work was needed. But the nature of […]
So look what I’ve done inside my Blackboard Learn sandpit site. It probably doesn’t look that exciting. A bit of HTML and a couple of animated GIFS. Anyone could do that, right? Not quite. Following explains why this is a bit of game changer and explores how it might be […]
My last post was an exploration of Foam (a nascent personal knowledge management and sharing system) and how I might use it. This post documents two steps toward implementation Writing blog posts using Foam and syncing to my blog (e.g. this post) Converting almost 100 notes from my wikity into […]
Designing potential use of Foam for PKM For years I’ve been annoyed at the lack of structure in my approach to managing and leveraging information (it never really becomes knowledge). The process through which I Seek > Sense > Share information/knowledge has been ad hoc, disorganised and broken. Last week […]
COVID-19 and the subsequent #pivotonline has higher education paying a lot more attention to the use of digital and online technology for learning and teaching (digital education). COVID-19 has made digital education necessary. COVID-19 has made any form of education – and just about anything else – more difficult. For […]
This is something I wrote in a protected post years ago. I want to get this bit out in the open. It captures an important distinction about Quality Assurance from John Biggs and asks a question (the title of this post) that I’ve yet to see an institution address effectively. […]
The Problem One of the benefits of using jQuery as the initial framework for the Content Interface is that you can leverage the existing ecosystem. e.g. jQuery’s themes enable a default Content Interface (on the left) to be “themed” (on the right) by changing a single line of CSS. The […]
As outlined previously I’m taking some steps toward learning and using the React Javascript library to develop some web interfaces/applications. The following documents progress toward writing that first application, which is largely confined to develop an initial mock-up and then learning more about the “React way”. Developing a mock-up The […]
Can React.js help extend CASA support for forward-oriented design? As the title suggests the aim here is to discover if the React.js library for building web (and other) user interfaces might help address some limitations and add some needed features to the Contextually-Appropriate Scaffolding Assemblage (CASA) idea (Jones, 2019). I’m […]
The challenge here is learn more about using NVivo in order to design processes for a research project exploring the prevalence and nature workarounds in higher education learning and teaching. Can Word documents be imported and pre marked up? The current plan is to have people complete a Word template. […]
Playing with Gephi A friend is in the final throes of her PhD and wants to visualise some of her qualitative findings using a network diagram. I’ve skirted around network visualisation without ever really doing anything but wanted to learn more. Following documents and reflects on my explorations and experiments […]
Introduction Over the last 12 months my work helping improve digital learning and teaching environments has relied heavily successfully integrating a variety of technologies. It has relied on mashing up different technologies into effective learning and teaching environments and experiences. The following reflects on that work and identifies three different […]
The following began as a summary of Hammond, M. (2019). What is an ecological approach and how can it assist in understanding ICT take-up? British Journal of Educational Technology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjet.12889 A paper that introduces the ecological approach to explain the disappointing uptake of digital technology in schools. Then I stumbled […]
TL;DR Recently there have been various suggestions that the biggest barrier to quality online learning in higher education is lack of knowledge held by teaching staff (Johnson, 2019; Mathes, 2019; Roberts, 2018). More or better training, faculty development and requirements for formal teaching qualifications are proposed as the solution. The […]
Introduction The following is a summary of the paper Theory of Workarounds. Alter, S. (2014). Theory of Workarounds. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 34(1). https://doi.org/10.17705/1CAIS.03455 The paper provides “an integrated theory of workarounds that describes how and why” they are created. It is a process theory “driven by […]
