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The following problem with using BIM has been reported the following is a record of my attempt to recreate and fix the problem. The problem...more...
It's that time of year again - week 1, semester 1 - and after almost three-quarters of a year there are face-to-face students to tutor and lecture. Have to love the pedagogical assumptions built into the fabric of the technology that is a University education (a good example of technology becoming mythic). The following captures a few thoughts from the first lecture/tutorial....more...
In the course I'm currently teaching the students will be expected to keep a learning journal. They'll be keeping this on a personal blog that they register on the course Moodle site (but not with BIMM, the institutional process to get BIM installed is underway). The following floats some initial ideas about how the "assessment" of the learning journal will be automated....more...
One of the tasks for the course I teach is to explore in a bit more detail one of the 150 ICT innovations identified as "good" in the Decoding Learning report. The list can be downloaded as an Excel spreadsheet. Preferably, the idea is we should be exploring ICT innovations that we might like to apply in our teaching....more...
Yesterday I had the opportunity to listen to Sir John Daniel give a presentation titled "Higher Education Futures: Keeping an open mind". The text and slides from the presentation are available here. Following the presentation there was a panel session involving Sir John, Professor Jan Thomas (USQ's Vice-Chancellor), Professor Ken Udas (USQ's Deputy Vice Chancellor - Academic Services and CIO) and Professor James Taylor (a USQ emeritus professor and big name in distance/open learning including OERU)...more...
Another step in getting BIM 2.0 ready for release. Addressing the current two outstanding issues prior to exploration of submitting BIM to Moodle CONTRIB (??appropriate terminology)...more...