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Warger (2003) (amongst others) makes the claim...more...
Coates, James and Baldwin (2005) identify/propose 5 drivers behind the adoption of LMS...more...
Christian Dalsgaard in a 2006 paper suggests...more...
The OECD report "E-learning in Tertiary Education: Where do we stand?" says that universities have primarily used LMSes for adminstrative purposes and that LMSes have, so far, had a limited impact on pedagogy....more...
Pittard (2004) talks about the UK government's plans for e-learning (my bad description). It includes the following...more...
Pittard (2004) talks about the UK government's plans for e-learning (my bad description). It includes the following...more...
In a recent post I commented on the trend around how consumer driven computing is driving the development of "software as a service". In particular, pointing to an article from the Economist that talked about how Arizona State University was using Google Apps to host email accounts for their students....more...
A nice quote for REACT comes from Campbell, Gibson and Grammlich (2005)...more...
Goold and Auga (2006) describe an experiment in prototyping of a transformation of a face-to-face course into an online offering....more...
The Economist magazine ran an article on Dec 19th, 2006 which is sub-titled - "Consumer technologies are invading corporate computing"....more...
This post is going to be a holding place for a range of resources that will be connected with my fuzzy thoughts around how to establish greater trust and reciprocity (maybe social capital) amongst academics and the staff who support them in developing their teaching....more...
The following comes from 'Lessons for Education: Creating a Learning System' (Hargreaves, 2000). It talks about social capital and the role it might play in innovations in higher education....more...
A lot of educational innovations are reported to be prevented/plagued with the "not invented here" syndrome that prevents adoption. One perspective on this is that this is blame allocation by the producer of the innovator. i.e. it's not my fault, but the fault of those recalcitrant adopters, they are rejecting my idea because of sheer bloody-mindedness....more...
Knowledge Management in the Learning Society is a book from the OECD that examines the issues in and around education due to the changes in society - the learning society....more...
The BBC has an article touching on Mao's "four pests" campaign. A perfect example of the difficulty of top-down design and the unexpected consequence that arise from limited overall knowledge of a system....more...