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On Monday I'm off to a rather large meeting to talk about what data might be usefully syndicated into a integrated dashboard. The following is an attempt to think out lod about the (P)IRAC framework (Jones, Beer and Clark, 2013) in the context of this local project. To help prepare me for the meeting, but also to ponder some recent thoughts about the framework....more...
In Jones and Clark (2014) we drew on Damien's (Clark) development of the Moodle Activity Viewer (MAV) as an example of how bricolage, affordances and distribution (the BAD mindset) can add some value to institutional e-learning. My empirical contribution to that paper was talking about how I'd extended MAV so that when I was answering a student query in a discussion forum I could quickly see relevant information about that student (e.g. their major, which education system they would likely be teaching into etc)....more...
This paper analyses the outcomes of what a small group of academics (myself included) attempted to do to develop the knowledge/capability to develop effective learning for hundreds of pre-service teachers via e-learning. That experience is analysed using a distributive view of knowledge and learning and illustrates just how broken what passes for ed tech support/academic staff development in some universities. Picking up on yesterday's post, the paper reports on academics harnessing their digital fluency to address the almost complete lack of usefulness of the institutionally developed attempts at supporting academic staff in developing the knowledge necessary for effective e-learning....more...
It's Wednesday, that means writing day. Time to continue work on a paper that's been mentioned previously. In this process I'm exploring being open about the writing process and attempting to create a collection of artifacts (evidence?) leading up to the final paper. This post documents today's steps with a particular focus on first steps with a new Smallest Federated Wiki (SFW) enabled writing process that fruitfully merges with use of this blog....more...
Motaghian et al (2013) in talking about "web-based learning systems" (LMS) conclude that (p. 167)...more...
About - this is an old post (2015) that was never posted. Posting it now for other reasons....more...
I have fulfilled my organisational duty and attended and participated in a 3 hour workshop intended to achieve some level of shared vision within the organisation. As always I remain cynical about likely impact such sessions will have on the organisation and my experience of it. There was, however, some benefit in making me aware of Schein's three levels of organisational culture (apparently from this book) and summarised in the following table (and more on wikipedia)....more...
The following is a summary and some thoughts on Harland (2014). The abstract for the paper is...more...
My name is David. I'm an academic. It's been 8 years since my last journal paper (but what a paper it was, thanks Shirley)....more...
The following is an attempt to give some structure to what I might do this year in terms of teaching and research. It's in the same spirit as a similar post by Tim Klapdor. A summary of my possible contribution to 2015, rather than a set of predictions for 2015. More in line with Alan Kay's quote...more...
Late last year @salvetore read and commented on the "three paths" paper that @beerc and @rolley wrote for ASCILITE'2014. (Always nice to know that someone reads a paper). The following is a response I've just added to the thread on the Moodle research discussion forum. In particular, picking up on two suggestions from Sean Dicks, which badly summarised are...more...
The following is a draft of a paper that has been accepted at the SITE'2015 conference, and which has just been selected as a SITE 2015 Outstanding Paper....more...