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As part of the experiment in presentations I'm planning for later in this month involves the use of alternate types of clickers or audience response systems. The aim of this part of the experiment is two-fold:...more...
In a recent post reflecting on a presentation I referenced a TED talk by Dan Pink in which he proposed a new operating system for companies based on staff having:...more...
I've just been asked the following question via Twitter...more...
The next in a series of reports summarising work in my current position/....more...
Sometime in the next month I have to develop the presentation I'll be giving at EDUCAUSE'09. The plan is to give this presentation at my host institution before EDUCAUSE and also to try some new technologies to make the spread of the presentation greater in terms of breadth and interaction. This is the start of some reflection and planning for that event....more...
For the last couple of weeks I have been focused on developing and giving a presentation titled Herding cats and losing weight: How to improve learning and teaching. The abstract, slides and video of the talk are all available on the presentation page. The following is an attempt to reflect on the talk, how it went and some recent readings/events which may influence how it goes moving forward....more...
This is the third in a continuing series of reports summarising what I am doing in my current position/...more...
On the 24th of September, 2009 I gave a presentation at CQUniversity entitled "Herding cats, losing weight and how to improve learning and teaching". The resources that arose from that presentation are included below. At the moment, that includes:...more...
Last year I planned to participate in CCK08 - Connectivism and Connective Knowledge'2008 - "a rather large online course" organised by George Siemens and Stephen Downes. Then various things, including a nastly little organisational restructure got in the way and I piked out....more...
Earlier this year I posted on Disruption and the “mythic” technologies of education and my views about consistency and diversity when applied to learning, especially e-learning within universities....more...
Another early update today - off to the Crocodile Farm as an excursion with the boys so today's a write off. However, progress has been good and the end is nigh for chapter 2 - at least in first draft....more...
I recently posted about the need to develop an approach that allows for the simple and consistent comparison of usage and feature adoption between different Learning Management Systems (aka LMS, Virtual Learning Environments - VLEs - see What is an LMS?). That last post on the need didn't really establish the need. The aim of this post is to explain the need and make some first steps in identifying how you might go about enabling this sort of comparison....more...
Last time I worked on BIM I got to know weblib.php enough to get the first canned Moodle page generated. The student details page which lets the student see what BIM knows about their blog contributions for the current course....more...
The following is the first part of the Pedagogy component of the Ps Framework with forms part of Chapter 2 of my thesis. As with previous thesis posts this is a rough first draft of the content, feedback welcome. This is the first of three parts to this component. The next will say something about "learning theory" and the final will draw some lessons....more...
I'm taking the weekend, including Friday, off from the PhD - so an early update. It's been a good week. If only a short one in that I'll miss Friday....more...
It's been a while since I last did some work on BIM, various other tasks getting in the way. The main mid-term KPI is the delivery of a working prototype of BIM working within Moodle. That's what I started in the last bit of work....more...
This post contains the last section of the "Product" component of chapter 2 of the my thesis, at least a rough first draft version of it. This is getting to the crux of my argument and problem with how most universities implement e-learning (adoption of an LMS) and it refers back to many of the other components of the Ps Framework. This will eventually become part of my EDUCAUSE'09 presentation and I'm thinking of re-working the following from thesis speak into something a little more leading....more...
A long-running problem at my institution - I don't think we're alone, I think most universities are in this boat - has been the absence of any support or processes around curriculum mapping. I've written briefly about this before, but now I have to produce a report with some background and recommendations....more...