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A few weeks ago, inspired by @sthcrft, I speculated around the idea of having a eduhack session at ASCILITE'2012. There was some interest and I had other tasks, but now it's time to think a bit more about it....more...
The almost 300 students in the course I'm teaching have their first assignment due on Monday. I'm currently laying the ground work to help the small course team to mark those assignments. Actually I'm busy procrastinating about the task by writing this blog post. Mainly because it is more work than it needs to be and it is this way because of one of the fundamental flaws of how universities are currently implementing e-learning systems....more...
More work on bim2, this one starting work on the previously identified tasks. Find out what BIM is here....more...
I'd like to argue - and yes it is perhaps a case of wishful thinking - that there are reasons to suspect that learning management systems (LMSs) will probably go away. Or at the very least, identify some forces that are pushing that way....more...
More detail on what BIM is can be found here...more...
In case you're wondering, BIM is a Moodle activity module that helps teaching staff manage individual student blogs. This post is one of a number of posts documenting the development of a version of BIM that will work with Moodle 2.x. More detail on BIM here...more...
This article from Inside Higher Ed reports on some initial findings from the Gates Foundation data mining project in the US. The key finding reported in the article is...more...