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Thanks to @cj13 for the heads up about the EDUCAUSE analytics sprint in the midst of moving, conferences, end/start of term and grant writing I missed it. Found it interesting that the first thing the struck my eye was a link to this discussion titled "Faculty need how-to information for the data they do have". It's interesting because the grant application I'm writing is directly aimed in this general area. Though we perhaps have a slightly different take on the problem....more...
Today marks the formal start of the process of re-designing the course EDC3100, ICTs and Pedagogy. This afternoon is the first meeting with the LITE team (Learning Innovation Teaching Enhancement) and I need to get my head around the process and think about what might make sense to do....more...
Another task for today is to put some finishing touches on an application for an OLT grant around learning analytics. The project - some early thinking shown here - is coming together nicely, but could always be better. Some good feedback from Rob Phillips reminded me about what the Horizon Report for Australian Tertiary Education (Johnson et al, 2012, p. 1) has to say about analytics in Oz higher ed...more...
The reflections on my couple of days at the PLE Conference in Melbourne will have to wait a couple of days. Semester starts on Monday and I have some course preparation to engage with. The following is an attempt to capture some thinking about the re-design of the Weekly Ramble...more...
After a week of increasingly intermittent engagements with Twitter I stumbled back into the Twitterverse this afternoon and one of the first things I see is this post from @marksmithers. It is Mark's response to the call for help from @courosa for his keynote at the Melbourne PLE conference next week. Alec's question is...more...