Success is on the far side of failure
@marksmithers has just written a blog post that makes the following point that talks about a new fund to promote innovation in highered. I know $5M isn’t a huge amount but the principle just seems so misguided. There is no problem with innovation in higher education. The problem is adopting and mainstreaming innovations across a
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NGL is a course I teach. Participants are asked to spend the semester engaging with networked and global learning as: student, learner, and teacher. They are asked to blog and reflect on this mishmash of experiences throughout the semester. I’m trying to do this as well. Not only to model one version of expectations, but
“More student details” (see image below) is the most visible part of the additional systems I’ve put in place to make teaching bearable (this presentation talks more about it). The problem I’m dealing with here is that a new semester has started, which means I need to re-configure these feral systems to work with the
What follows is some explorations of the technology behind Moodle to see how the mockups of a Book module search function might be implemented. Building my own knowledge of how it works and testing whether it might be possible. It’s largely an exploration of how the Search forum block works on the assumption that mirroring
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Time to start generating a mock up of one of the itches identified in this presentation and from the Moodle “open” book project. Perhaps best summed up from this comment from a past EDC3100 student It is impossible to go back and remember where to find information…At least on a PDF I can use the
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Behrens, S., Jamieson, K., Jones, D., & Cranston, M. (2005). Predicting system success using the Technology Acceptance Model: A case study. In 16th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (Paper 70). Sydney. Retrieved from http://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2005/70/ Abstract Determining what makes an Information System (IS) successful is an ongoing concern for both researchers and practitioners alike. Arriving at
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The ability to modify open source software (like Moodle) is often identified as one of its strengths. The ability to scratch your own itch, to modify the software to fit your needs is seen as a major plus. Especially when – as with Moodle – that software has an inherently modular (the M in Moodle
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It’s July 2015 which means two things. First, Semester 2 is about to get underway and thankfully (though it’s a two-edged sword) EDU8117, Networked and Global Learning (netgl) is running again. Second, it’s summer in the northern hemisphere which seems to coincide with another round of xMOOCs running out of the US. Time to combine
The following is a description of how I’ve gone about revising the Week 1 material for EDU8117, Networked and Global Learning. The intent is to demonstrate how a tool can be used for something a little different. The problem The content for week 1 is a longish web page. It was created in a hurry
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Below you will find resources associated with a talk titled “Digital Learning: It’s deja vu all over again”. The slides below are the near final set to be presented at the #dLRN15 conference (abstract available below). Due to time constraints a slightly longer version of the slides has replaced. Abstract The initial steps of my
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