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In my previous academic life, I never really saw the point of book chapters as a publication form. For a variety of reasons, however, my next phase in academia appears likely to involve an increasing number of book chapters. The need for the first such chapter has arisen this week and the first draft is due by February next year, which is a timeline to give me just a little pause for thought. (There is a chance that this book might end up as a special edition of a journal)...more...
This is an attempt to briefly (and possibly badly) express a disquiet I have with the idea of scaling educational innovations. It's sparked by a post by Rick Hess titled "Why education innovation tends to crash and burn"....more...
For some reason I'm in a fairly contrarian frame of mind tonight. So starting a series of blog posts listing and criticising widely held positions in education seems like the thing to do. I'm sure you have your favourite example, feel free to add them to the comments. Also feel free to add pointers to resources - both for and against - the examples....more...
Am trying to slowly get back into the learning analytics literature as part of writing a paper. The following is an ad hoc collection of comments/reflections on a few learning analytics papers....more...