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In a section with the heading "ALL MODELS ARE WRONG BUT SOME ARE USEFUL", Box (1979) wrote...more...
Time to refine the visualisation of students by postcodes started earlier this week. Have another set of data to work with....more...
Time to follow up step 2 in connecting github and the Moodle book module....more...
I've been set a task (asked nicely really) by my Head of School if it is possible to produce a map that will allow all and sundry to see the geographic spread of our students....more...
The idea that everyone should know how to code is increasingly dominant and increasingly questioned. In terms of a required skill that everyone should know, I remain sitting on the fence. But if you are currently teaching in a contemporary university where e-learning (technology enhanced learning, digital learning, online learning, choose your phrase) forms a significant part of what you do, then I think you should seriously consider developing the skill....more...
This is a follow on from yesterday's post weaving in a few posts from netgl participants....more...
There's movement afoot. The Lucimoo epub export tool for the Moodle book module is going through the process of being tested (and perhaps installed) on my institution's main Moodle instance. What follows is a bit of testing of that tool in the institution's test environment....more...
The following is a bit of reflection and curation of various posts from participants in the netgl course. There'll be a few of these coming. The aim for this post is to suggest that there might be more to the "networked" part of Networked and Global Learning than just the Internet and social media. This is an important point to make because the interventions design by the folk from last year's offering of the course were a little too limited in their focus on the Internet and various forms of social media....more...
The continuing story of linking github and the Moodle book module. Following on from step 1 the main aim here is to grok the PHP client for the github api I'm currently chosen....more...
The following is the first step in actually implementing some of the ideas outlined in an earlier post about bringing and the Moodle Book module together. The major steps covered here are...more...
by HA! Designs - Artbyheather ...more...
The Moodle open book project is attempting (not surprisingly) to modify the Moodle book module to enable it to produce open resources (educational or otherwise). The main focus is on making the content of the books open in a way that enables modification and reuse. The plan is to do this by enabling a Moodle book resource to be linked to github....more...
Do you know more about computers than an 11-year-old? is the title of an article from a UK newspaper. It contains an 11 question quiz that is apparently based on the primary school IT and computer science curriculum....more...
My current institution has a content problem when it comes to e-learning (insert digital learning, online learning, technology enhanced learning, or just learning if you prefer). The following is an attempt to use my experience teaching at the institution to understand what are some of the factors contributing to the problem....more...
A much delayed blog post that I'm getting out in a hurry now....more...
Riel and Pollin (2004) talk about a view of learning that sees learning occurring...more...
The following is a summary of an initial experiment using the OERPub editor with some actual content from a course I'm currently looking after. The aim is to explore what it's like to use this purpose built open textbook editor that relies on github....more...