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Yesterday, via a tweet from @marksmithers I read this post from the author of the DIYU book titled "Vast Majority of Professors Are Rather Ludditical". This is somewhat typical of the defict model of academics which is fairly prevalent and rather pointless. It's pointless for a number of reasons, but the main one is that it is not a helpful starting point for bringing a out change as it ignores the broader problem and consequently most solutions that arise from a deficit model won't work....more...
For the last couple of days our LG side-by-side fridge has been dying. Not a great situation, especially given the problems we've had with it. And then today I find out that my employment at my current institution is about to cease after 20 years. The following is a bit of reflection about what might happen now....more...
Yesterday, I rehashed/summarised some earlier thoughts about "handling the marriage of PLEs and institutions. Since then, I've been reflecting on that post. Am coming to the belief that this is just the wrong problem, or perhaps just a symptom of a deeper problem. (Signal the start of the broken record)....more...
The following is my attempt to think about how the "marriage" of the PLE concept and educational institutions can be handled. It arises from reading some of the material that has arisen out of the PLE conference held in Barcelona a few weeks ago and some subsequent posts, most notable this one on the anatomy of a PLE from Steve Wheeler....more...
Time to get back into the thesis. The following is the next completed section from the evaluation part of chapter 5 of my thesis. A result of much data munging and some writing, still needs a bit more reflection and thought, but getting close....more...
Just uploaded a screencast/presentation that is essentially a cut down version of the presentation I gave at Moodlemoot'AU 2010 last week. There's an embedded version below or you can find the original on vimeo. There's also more information about BIM elsewhere and you can download BIM from here (for Moodle 1.9.x) or BIM for Moodle 2.x here (look for the "Zip" button)....more...
Col's recent blog post has just started the necessary process of the Indicators project paying closer attention to the question of ethics when applied to learning analytics. The following are some of my initial responses to Col's post and an attempt to invite some additional suggestions from other folk around the question...more...
The following is a report of my attendance at Moodlemoot'AU 2010 during the first half of this week. The aim is to engage in a touch of reflection, outline tasks to do, and inform colleagues back at CQUniversity about the conference....more...
I'm off to the 2001 Australian MoodleMoot next week. The conference program includes a collection of 3 minute show and tell sessions on the Tuesday afternoon. The following is a summary of what I think I'm going to talk about and a call for suggestions....more...
D'Arcy Norman suggests that Edupunk is a McGuffin. I like the metaphor. But I think it breaks down a bit, at least in the context I'm interested in....more...
I'm currently trying to formalise the information systems design theory for e-learning that is meant to be the contribution of my thesis. i.e. what is the model, set of principles etc that I think is important....more...
The following presents details of feature adoption by courses using the Webfuse system from 1997 through 2009. It presents the data generated by the work described in the last post....more...
I'm in the throws of finalising the second last bit of data analysis for the thesis. For this I'm trying to examine the level of feature adoption within courses supported by the Webfuse system (the main product for the the thesis). The following describes an attempt to formalise the process for this evaluation....more...