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What's good for research, must surely be good for teaching?...more...
I found out last week that the abstract I submitted to Moodlemoot AU 2013 had been accepted. The talk will attempt to outline what I'm hoping will be my primary line of research over the next couple of years, which is probably going to be something like...more...
The following is a mini-argument for and example of how the e-learning tools should be made more supportive. i.e. actually help the staff and students using them actively address common problems in a pro-active way. It continues some more thinking about an earlier question I asked, Does institutional e-learning have a TPACK problem?" and hopefully will inform the on-going research and development around BIM (now officially released to the Moodle community) and also inform the Moodlemoot'AU 2013 presentation I proposed....more...
The title for this post is (probably a slight re-phrasing) of something @palbion mentioned last week during a conversation about the low quality of information systems within higher education (or at least our experience thereof). The comment was in relation to the professional and academic staff who are struggling with the various information systems universities are increasingly using to support tasks such as managing research higher degree students form application through to graduation, managing the process of sending students out into industry for practicums, and of course the more general LMS and student records system....more...
Was skimming through Mark Drechsler's slide deck from THETA 2013 when I came across the following slide....more...
The following is just a "diary entry" recording a bit more evidence for the story that our students are neither digital natives nor digitally literate. It may or may not become useful in future research/writing. It's not meant to be insightful, just a record of an experience....more...
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....more...
Next step in the development of bim v2.0 is to start the process of submitting it to CONTRIB. i.e. essentially getting out officially into the Moodle community....more...
The course I'm teaching requires each student to create and user an individual blog. The blog should be created on an external blogging platform of their choice and used to reflect on their learning in whatever way they see fit. There are a couple of constraints around regularity (at least 2/3 posts a week), length (average of 100 words), links to resources (60% with links to online resources), and links to other student blogs (2 of all posts over a 3 week period). All this is meant to be automatically marked....more...