Archives for December 2014 (9 items)

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📅 31 Dec 2014 in: thesis

The following is a summary of what it takes for a teacher to find support resources around e-learning/network learning within the existing USQ systems. I had started this as part of another blog post that was going to draw upon my research to suggest an alternative approach. I had thought this would provide a useful comparison. However, as I stepped through the process it became obvious that what exists is far worse than I thought existed. Part of me wonders whether I've missed something simple, can't it really be this bad?...more...

📅 29 Dec 2014 in: thesis

The Christmas break is over. It's the start of a new week and I've completed some holiday tasks (complete a run through of Dragon Age Inquisition, watch the final series of The Newsroom, and upgrade the family computers to Yosemite). Time to start engaging with #fedwikihappening and trying to make sense of how it connects with other work I'm doing....more...

📅 26 Dec 2014 in: thesis

Thanks to the good folk of @reclaimhosting I know have a FedWiki working as part of my own domain - http://fedwiki.djon.es/. That's the good news. The bad news is that the move creates two problems...more...

📅 19 Dec 2014 in: thesis

And onto daily #6 of #fedwikihappening. I'm hoping this will start explore what the process might be around using fedwiki in my day-to-day thinking. To that end, I'm planning to...more...

📅 18 Dec 2014 in: bad
📅 18 Dec 2014 in: thesis

Time to start using Fedwiki to do some writing....more...

📅 17 Dec 2014 in: thesis

So I now have a federated wiki of my own. Rolled by the good folk of #fedwikihappening....more...

📅 16 Dec 2014 in: fedwiki

So I'm starting another MOOC. Though it's not a MOOC at all. It's apparently a SiCMOOC (small intimate Connectivist MOOC). Though that term is labouring a fad for more than it's worth. Much prefer the term the organiser (Mike Caufield @holden) is using a happening...more...

📅 15 Dec 2014 in: bad, elearning

The following does a compare and contrast between the "what is" of university e-learning systems and the "what might be". There are three sections...more...