See also: Archives
The work on the missing Ps is intended to contribute some research publications within the information systems field and also form the structure for chapter 2 of my PhD thesis. Consequently, it is important that the work have a good research foundation. This post is intended to provide that foundation, or at least document my development of the foundation....more...
The Missing Ps framework is my attempt to generate a way of identifying the flaws in the methods used by Universities to select an LMS....more...
Clarence Fisher has an interesting experiential post about the difficulties that start to arise when using a lot of cool, new "Web 2.0" apps in a teaching/learning context. Free(ish) services he lists are blogs, wikis, podcasts/vlogs, superglu, flickr etc....more...
blogs for learning is an "online resource about instructional blogging being set up by Michigan State University. I've volunteered/been asked to write an article about the use of blogs in COIS20025 and BAM....more...
It's almost the end of term. We've started marking the blogs using BAM and not surprisingly some rough edges are showing. Things to look at...more...
At the Plagiarism Conference 2006 Baroness Ruth Deech, the first Independent Adjudicator for Higher Education gave a presentation which has been widely reported on the Web and in the press. It was interesting to note that the conference was co-sponsored by Turnitin's UK arm. Rather than sound entirely negative the conference proceedings are online and, from the titles, there looks to be some good stuff....more...
LMS adoption decisions are made by people. LMSes are used by people. The nature of those people who they are, how they think and what they believe, amongst other characteristics, have a significant impact....more...
While elearning is still relatively new there has been significant levels of implementation and research around elearning. It seems fairly obvious that any LMS adoption process should make use of the knowledge generated by this past experience....more...
Tony Byrne has posted an article entitled A Scenario-based approach to evaluating CMS vendors. It's part of a website that examines/reviews content management systems. The post tells the story of how they evolved their evaluation of such systems from strictly functional evaluations to the addition of "vendor intangibles" and beyond....more...
A continuation of the elements of the "missing Ps"....more...
I know of a few organisations that are currently undergoing that favourite past-time of all new management and the greatest fear of people in their new organisations, the organisational restructure. As part of another thread of reading I came across a post that has a nice take on these events....more...
The Missing Ps framework is my attempt to generate a way of identifying the flaws in the methods used by Universities to select an LMS....more...
The Missing Ps framework is my attempt to generate a way of identifying the flaws in the methods used by Universities to select an LMS....more...
The missing Ps framework is very much under construction attempt to identify the holes and flaws in the methods used by Universities to evaluate and select a learning management system (LMS)....more...
George Siemens has posted a document entitled "Learning or Management System? A Review of Learning Management System Reviews" which, as the title suggests, reviews a recent collection of reviews of LMSes in an attempt to offer a more nuanced view....more...
A long time ago I identified "reducing meaningless freedom" as a key design principle for elearning type apps - basically anything web-based and possible broader. It ties in with ideas others have identified, it's even discussed in the sad textbook we're using in COIS20025 this term....more...
For, what seems the longest time, CQU has been talking about the need to evaluate and choose yet another LMS. We've sort of done this two times before, and from my perspective, both adoption decisions have been fatally flawed. Some discussion about those processes can be found, to a lesser or greater extent, in a variety of publications by CQU authors including: Danaher, Luck and McConachie (2005), Sturgess and Nouwens (2005), and Jones, Luck, McConachie and Danaher (2005)...more...
In his MIT Sloan Management Review article, "Enterprise 2.0: The Dawn of Emergent Collaboration", Andrew McAfee cites two "intelligent ground rules" that people building Enterprise 2.0 technologies are following...more...
ISWorld is a mailing list that acts as a major forum for discussion for information systems academics. Over the last few days the discussion has been about dropping enrolments and the search for bumper sticker phrases as one way to encourage enrolments....more...
Stephen Downes has a paper titled "Learning Networks and Connective Knowledge" that is currently being discussed on the ITForum. He blogs about the paper and includes links to ITForum and the paper....more...
The following reflection (you may prefer drivel, but each to their own) has been sparked by a comment by Susan Scrupski on a previous post. It's also been driven along by some of the reading I've been doing in the blogosphere in the last week or so....more...
For a number of the educators I know group work is a magical solution the promises great improvement to the effectiveness of their courses....more...
For the uninitiated, most of my work and research over the last ten years has been in someway associated with Webfuse. It's the focus of my PhD and many of my publications with the intent of attempting to develop an information systems design theory for e-learning. Jones and Gregor (2006) provide one explanation....more...
This blog post by Dion Hinchcliffe includes a link to the mp3 of talk by Andrew McAfee at a conference. According to another blog Andrew claims to be the guy who coined Enterprise 2.0....more...
A blog post from the company JackBE, apparently by a guy called Mike Wagner tries to make the argument about why the term Rich Internet Applications (RIA - applications built with new style web interface technologies, e.g. Ajax etc) needs to be extended/enhanced to Rich Enterprise Applications (REAs)....more...
Where now for development methodologies is an article from the Communications of the ACM thinking about the future of development methodologies....more...
The Age newspaper has a story about how students are "plagiarising" by purchasing purpose writen assignments from various websites....more...
One of the problems with arguing a "Web 2.0 course site" to many academics is the fact that the content is open. This is still incredibly troubling to a large percentage of academics (must find out how prevalent)....more...