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Good news this week. BIM got into the institution's testing site for Moodle. One step close to going live. The bad news is that there were a couple of issues to resolve. This post is a record of the attempt to address the big one (successfully as well)....more...
The following is a repeat of this post for a different offering of the same course. It's also a quick how to primarily intended for the students in the course. Summary and comparison first, then the how to....more...
The following is an early description of work arising out of The Indicators Project an ongoing attempt to think about learning analytics. With IRAC (Information, Representation, Affordances and Change) Colin Beer, Damien Clark and I are trying to develop a set of questions that can guide the use of learning analytics to improve learning and teaching. The following briefly describes:...more...
Update: A student from last semester has shared her experiences from last semester using Feedly. The big limitation with Feedly is the absence of a search facility. But then it appears that this is a limitation of all the competitors as well (for now)....more...
Sadly, but not surprisingly, I missed out on an invite to LASI 2013. But I am able to follow the conversation via other means such as the LASI blog aggregator. Via the aggregator I've come across this post from Mike Tissenbaum reflecting on the opening sessions....more...
The following post started over the weekend. I'm adding this little preface as a result of the wasted hours I spent yesterday battling badly designed systems and the subsequent stories I've heard from others today. One of those stories revolved around how the shortening available time and the poorly designed systems is driving one academic to make a change to her course that she knows is pedagogically inappropriate, but which is necessary due to the constraints of these systems....more...