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The following is a continuation of prior ponderings about about open educational practice (OEP) and open educational resources (OER) in the context of a potential institutional grant application. It's an attempt to make sense of some of the relevant literature I've read and figure out how that might influence the nascent project. In particular, it suggests that some of the OER/OEP literature is limited due to its focus on: OER; the individual; the institution; and, on searching as the means of discovery....more...
Last year my institution installed the Lucimoo epub export tool for the Moodle Book module. I did some of the testing of it. I'm particularly interested (but not overly) in its ability to export a book resource as an ePub file (see I'm innovative, I support the kiddies and their fancy new mobile devices). While the export basically works, the testing identified a number of problems. I've fixed most of those (mainly tidying up my hand-crafted HTML and that produced by a few tools I use)....more...
In June last year I started an exploration into the value of sentiment analysis of student blog posts. This morning I've actually gotten it to work. There may be some value, but further exploration is required. Here's the visible representation of what I've done....more...
Ben-Ari (1999) reports an experiment where 10 members of a University department were asked to verbalise their understandings as they completed tasks in Word. The aim was to explore their conceptual understanding of Word and its link with their use of Word. Ben-Ari (1999) writes...more...
Another year and another institutional grant opportunity around openness. This year the focus is on Open Educational Practice and is...more...
David Wiley has posed a little thought experiment that encourages reflection around levels of automation and "personalisation" within a University course. Judging by my Twitter stream it appears to have arisen out of a session or happening from the ELI conference. The experiment describes a particular teacher purpose, outlines four options for fulfilling that purpose, and offers a standard against which to consider those options....more...
Another day and another short presentation showing off a particular aspect of learning and teaching. This time social bookmarking....more...
Today I'm giving a 10 minutes spiel on why, what, and how I make use of blogs to support student learning in one of my courses. The slides for the talk will will be available below....more...
David Jones, Elke Schneider...more...