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In putting the finishing touches on this ASCILITE paper I discovered that Tuesday will be the 2 year anniversary of when I first put together much of the following on attempts by universities to improve/transform the quality of e-learning through checklists and other "quality assurance" methods. Given that I still see this tendency from central L&T folk in Universities - especially those in management - and that the original checklist the sparked the following has been largely gotten rid of, I thought I'd share this....more...
Doing a bit of reading of the literature. As preparation for the redevelopment of a 3rd year course helping pre-service teachers figure out how ICTs can be integrated into/transform their learning and teaching....more...
As mentioned in the last post I'm currently reading Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. The title of this post comes from this quote from that book...more...
Had some time this morning to read Analytics in Higher Education: Benefits, Barriers, Progress and Recommendations from the EDUCAUSE Centre for Applied Research. It's a report on the results of a survey and seven focus groups (involving IT and Institutional Research - IR - people from universities) attempt to "address the topics of defining analytics, identifying challenges, and proposing solutions" (Bischel, 2012, p. 5). The following uses the quotes from this report that really struck me to identify and suggest what might be the core problem I have with learning analytics. The assumption of rationality....more...
The following arises from some recent experiences with the idea of "minimum course sites" and this observation from @cogdog in this blog post...more...