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As part implementation requirements for the rotating banner image on this blog I needed some software to crop photos to the required dimensions. Increasingly, I'm also finding myself needing to do this with figures and diagram related to my research and work (e.g. one and )....more...
Jocene reflects a bit upon a slidecast (titled "Personal Learning Environments: The future of education?") by Graham Atwell....more...
I've bitten the bullet and have decided to use Wordpress blog to support the 6 hour orientation to course analysis and design I'm supposed to run next week....more...
The title to this post is included in a quote from Kane, Sandretto and Heath (2004)...more...
It's that time of year again, next week I get to run a session with 20 or so new CQU academics looking at course analysis and design. The session is part of a four day program entitled Foundations of University Learning and Teaching (FoULT). The session is run twice a year....more...
All over the place there are people in organisations performing evaluations and comparisons of competing information systems products with a strong belief that they are being rational and objective. Since the late 1990s or so, most Universities seem to be doing this every 5 or so years around learning management systems. The problem is that these processes are never rational or objective because the nature of human beings is such that they never can be (perhaps very rarely - e.g. when I'm doing it ;) )....more...
As part of working on my thesis I'm working on chapter 2. As the traditional literature review one purpose of the chapter is to demonstrate what I know about the topic and to highlight what I think are the flaws or holes in current research and practice that I believe my research will address. The following builds on some initial ideas from a previous blog post and serves as some practice in formulating my ideas. So it will still be rough. Feel free to suggest improvements, point out problems and disagree....more...
This article from a Training industry magazine raises a number of issues, well known in the research literature, about the significant limitations that exist with the evaluation of university teaching....more...
The following is forming up as something to go into my thesis as part of the "Past experience" component of the Ps Framework....more...
16 September, 2012 - for some reason today has seen a fair bit of interest in this post from over 3 years ago. I though I'd take the opportunity to move this particular argument up a level....more...
In a previous post I pointed to and summarised a working paper that suggests that IS research is not all that diverse. At least at the conceptual level....more...
This post contains a link to a PDF working paper that uses metaphor analysis on a collection of journal papers to examine just how diverse research within the Information Systems field actually is. It finds that the IS field is actually not very diverse at all from this perspective, which is somewhat contradictory to what is accepted by most IS folk....more...
I've been a fan of Dave Snowden and his work for a couple of years. In this blog post from last year Dave shares 7 principles for "rendering knowledge". For me, these 7 principles have direct connection with the tasks I'm currently involved with e-learning, curriculum design and helping improve the quality of learning and teaching....more...
Late last year I wrote that this blog was currently ranked #12 by Google (US-based search) for a search on "david jones"....more...
As I am currently writing up the PhD I have banned myself from working on any new papers. However, as I work through the PhD I will get ideas for papers so rather than waste time writing them in full and even worse forget about them I'm going to try and write about them on the blog and categorise them appropriately. With the hope that post PhD I can come back and have a large collection of papers to write. Alternatively, I'll have a collection of dribble to laugh at....more...
I've mentioned some plans to implement a rotating banner image on this blog. As you may have picked up from this post, if you're looking at the site, that such a rotating banner image has been implemented. Here's the story....more...
Online assignment submission is one of the more used features of Webfuse and is explained in part in a few publications....more...
Webfuse provides a "staff portal" called Staff MyCQU. It is essentially a web-based application that provides a single interface to most of the tools/services staff require while teaching a course....more...
As part of my PhD thesis I'll be generating some statistics about the usage of the Webfuse e-learning system that has been in use at CQU since 1996....more...