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@marksmithers has just written a blog post that makes the following point...more...
NGL is a course I teach. Participants are asked to spend the semester engaging with networked and global learning as: student, learner, and teacher. They are asked to blog and reflect on this mishmash of experiences throughout the semester. I'm trying to do this as well. Not only to model one version of expectations, but also because I find it a valuable learning process myself. I did "me as learner" last week, this week it's time for "me as teacher"....more...
"More student details" (see image below) is the most visible part of the additional systems I've put in place to make teaching bearable (this presentation talks more about it). The problem I'm dealing with here is that a new semester has started, which means I need to re-configure these feral systems to work with the new semester....more...
What follows is some explorations of the technology behind Moodle to see how the mockups of a Book module search function might be implemented. Building my own knowledge of how it works and testing whether it might be possible. It's largely an exploration of how the Search forum block works on the assumption that mirroring that will be a reasonable way to implement a search facility for the Book module....more...
Time to start generating a mock up of one of the itches identified in this presentation and from the Moodle "open" book project. Perhaps best summed up from this comment from a past EDC3100 student...more...
Behrens, S., Jamieson, K., Jones, D., & Cranston, M. (2005). Predicting system success using the Technology Acceptance Model: A case study. In 16th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (Paper 70). Sydney. Retrieved from http://aisel.aisnet.org/acis2005/70/...more...
The ability to modify open source software (like Moodle) is often identified as one of its strengths. The ability to scratch your own itch, to modify the software to fit your needs is seen as a major plus. Especially when - as with Moodle - that software has an inherently modular (the M in Moodle stands for modulear) architecture that makes it easier for people to scratch their own itch. But making modifications to large bits of software like Moodle requires a fair bit of specific knowledge....more...
It's July 2015 which means two things. First, Semester 2 is about to get underway and thankfully (though it's a two-edged sword) EDU8117, Networked and Global Learning (netgl) is running again. Second, it's summer in the northern hemisphere which seems to coincide with another round of xMOOCs running out of the US. Time to combine them both....more...
The following is a description of how I've gone about revising the Week 1 material for EDU8117, Networked and Global Learning. The intent is to demonstrate how a tool can be used for something a little different....more...
Below you will find resources associated with a talk titled "Digital Learning: It's deja vu all over again". The slides below are the near final set to be presented at the #dLRN15 conference (abstract available below)....more...
There's an identified problem with learning analytics captured by the quote from Buckingham-Shum in the image below (the image is from a presentation I gave yesterday on learning analytics, so my head is in that space). In the case of learning analytics that data that is easy to capture is generally mouse clicks. The number of times a learner clicks on a website. Computer systems log this information almost by default. It's the data that exists so it is what learning analytics analyses. It's the data which defines the way people think about the problem....more...
The LMS used by my institution is Moodle, but the institution has "branded" it as "Study Desk". Meaning students and teachers talk about finding X on the "Study Desk". They don't talk about finding X on Moodle. The following suggests that this branding of the LMS may actually hurt learning....more...
This semester I'm course examiner for a new course on Secondary Computing Curriculum and Pedagogy. As the name suggests, the course is intended to help pre-service teachers who are aiming to teach computing in Secondary schools. While I'm the course examiner, the course is being developed and will be largely taught by a couple of practicing and experienced Secondary computing teachers (how's that for "recency of practice"?)....more...
Next week I'm off to Melbourne to Moodlemoot'AU 2015. This post will hold the details and resources associated with this talk which is talking about how the Moodle book module might be enhanced, including by making it more open. It's the first public talk about the USQ funded Moodle book project....more...
It's once again time to process final results for a course and return the final assignment. A process that involves...more...