Contemporary higher education appears to have a scale problem....more...
Henry Cook, Steven Booten and I gave the following presentation at the THETA conference in Brisbane in April 2023....more...
This work arose from the depths of an institutional LMS migration (Blackboard Learn to Canvas). In particular, the observation that the default migration processes required an awful lot of low level manual labour. Methods that appeared to reduce the quality of the migration process and increase the cost. Hence we started developing different methods. As the migration project unfolded we kept developing and refining. Building on what we'd done before and further decreasing the cost of migration, increasing the quality of the end result, and increasing the scale and diversity of what we could migrate....more...
All university strategies for learning and teaching seek to maximise: accessibility (as many people as possible can participate - feel the scale - in as many ways as possible); quality (it's good); and, cost effectiveness (it's cheap to produce and offer). Ryan et al (2021) argue that this is a "key issue for contemporary higher education" (p. 1383) due to inevitable cost constraints, the benefits of increased access to higher education, and requirements to maintain quality standards. However, the literature on the "iron triangle" in higher education (e.g. Daniel et al, 2009; Mulder, 2013; Ryan et al, 2021) suggests that maximising all three is difficult, if not impossible. As illustrated in Figure 1 (adapted from Mulder, 2013, p. 100) the iron triangle suggests that changes in one (e.g. changing accessibility from on-campus to online due to COVID) will have negatively impact at least one, but probably both, of the other qualities (e.g. the COVID response involving increase in workload for staff and resulting in less than happy participants)....more...
Pre-COVID the role of technology in learning and teaching in higher education was important. However, in 2020 it became core as part of the COVID response. Given the circumstances it is no surprise that chunks of that response were not that great. There was some good work. There was a lot of a "good enough for the situation" work. There was quite a bit that really sucked. For example,...more...
COVID-19 and the subsequent #pivotonline has higher education paying a lot more attention to the use of digital and online technology for learning and teaching (digital education). COVID-19 has made digital education necessary. COVID-19 has made any form of education β and just about anything else β more difficult. For everyone. COVID-19 and itβs impact is rewriting what higher education will be after. COVID-19 is raising hopes and fears that what will come after will be (positively?) transformative. Not beholden to previous conceptions and corporate mores....more...
This is something I wrote in a protected post years ago. I want to get this bit out in the open....more...
As outlined previously Iβm taking some steps toward learning and using the React Javascript library to develop some web interfaces/applications. The following documents progress toward writing that first application, which is largely confined to develop an initial mock-up and then learning more about the βReact wayβ....more...
Can React.js help extend CASA support for forward-oriented design?...more...
The challenge here is learn more about using NVivo in order to design processes for a research project exploring the prevalence and nature workarounds in higher education learning and teaching....more...
Recently there have been various suggestions that the biggest barrier to quality online learning in higher education is lack of knowledge held by teaching staff (Johnson, 2019; Mathes, 2019; Roberts, 2018). More or better training, faculty development and requirements for formal teaching qualifications are proposed as the solution....more...
The following is a summary of the paper Theory of Workarounds....more...
The following has been accepted for presentation at ASCILITE'2019. Itβs based on work described in earlier blog posts....more...
This post continues an on-going exploration of knowledge reuse in design for digital learning. Previous posts (one and two) started the exploration in the context of developing an assemblage to help designers of web-based learning environments create a card interface (see Figure 1). Implementing such a design from scratch requires a diverse collection of knowledge that is beyond most individuals. It is hoped that packaging that knowledge into an assemblage of technologies will allow for that knowledge to be used and reused (within Blackboard 9.1) by more people and subsequently have a positive impact on the learning environment and experience....more...
In the absence of an established workflow for curating thoughts and resources I am using this blog post to save links to some resources. It's also being used as an initial attempt to write down some thoughts on these resources and beyond. All very rough....more...
The following provides a collection of information and resources associated with a paper and presentation given at ALASI 2017 - the Australian Learning Analytics Summer Institute in Brisbane on 30 November, 2017. Below you'll find an abstract, a recording of a version of the presentation, the presentation slides and the references....more...
"failure" (CC BY 2.0) by tinou bao...more...
The following information is taken from and adds to the contents of a poster by Alice Brown and I for a USQ L&T Celebration Event. It describes the need for a Student Evaluation of Teaching leaderboard, how it works, and the results of some early applications (12 to 15% increases in response rates in individual courses, resulting in response rates that are double the institutional average - around 50%, rather than 25%)....more...
PEBKAC (Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair) is just one of the terms IT folk use to express their frustration with the apparent stupidity of users. A frustration perhaps overshadowed by that felt by the end users who - as digital technology becomes pervasive within organisations - are increasingly frustrated by organisational technology that prevents them from performing the simplest of tasks and thus having to resort to calling IT for assistance and having experiences not dissimilar to that following....more...
MAV is just about up and running at USQ as one of the Technology Demonstrators. It's taken longer than I thought, but it's there.Β The following demonstrates MAV running on a course I teach and is intended to illustrate some of what it can do....more...
Some colleagues and I are embarking on a project exploring how teacher education might move toward adoption Open Educational Practices (OEP). A project that is currently being driven by a funding from one University, and which might lead to an application for funding from another institution. In part, we're thinking about how teacher education in each of these two institutions can adopt OEP, what that might look like, what the barriers be, and how might we go about moving toward something like this that won't fade away once the money runs out or we move on....more...
"Proteus"Β (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) byΒ skooksie...more...
What is your experience of the digital technologies provided by the organisations for which you work?...more...
As part of the USQ Technology Demonstrator Project (a bit more here) we'll soon be able to play with the Moodle Activity Viewer. As described the VC, the Technology Demonstrator Project entails...more...
The level of support provided by digital technologies to broad learning and teaching tasks within my little part of my current institution is extremely limited. The following is one explanation why this is the case, and one set of suggestions for what might be done, both immediately and longer term....more...
Part 6 of this series diverges a bit from the last post and moves away from what people are doing with the Book resources to focus on the contents of the Book resources themselves.Β Questions I'm hoping to explore in this post include:...more...
Some colleagues and are re-starting an exploration of OEP in Initial Teacher Education (ITE). A first task is an attempt to get a handle on what has been done/is known about OEP/OER. Yes, we're looking for spectrums/frameworks/models etc that help map out what might be done with OEP/OER.Β We're interested in using this to understand what's been done around OEP within ITE and also what we've already done....more...
I'm due to have the slides for a Moodlemoot Australia presentation in a few weeks. Time to get organised. The following is (perhaps) the first of a sequence of posts reporting on progress toward that presentation and the related research....more...
Due to a combination of personal and institutional flaws (the information systems and enterprise processes within Universities continue to be "interesting") that last month or so has been pretty horrendous from a work perspective. Only now starting to get some space to reflect on what's been happening and engage more students and research. My apologies to the students who have been impacted....more...
In the first half of the year there was a new assignment in EDC3100 designed to both enhance student learning, but also experiment with making the data produced by students and markers as part of the assessment process more accessible for manipulation by software. i.e. the students and markers entered data into a spreadsheet....more...
Way back in 1986 I started studying undergraduate computer science at the University of Queensland. One of our first year programming assignments was to use the fancy, new Macintosh computers to add some code to a game.Β I'm looking for pointers to the name of the game and any online resources about it. A working version on some contemporary platform would be great....more...
@damoclarky has commented on yesterday's Part 2 post. A comment that's sparked a bit of thinking. I've moved my length response into this post, rather than as a reply to the comment....more...
This is a followup to yesterday's Part 1 post and a continuation of an attempt to describe the nature of digital technology and to think about what this might reveal about how and what is being done by formal education has it attempts to use digital technology for learning and teaching. This post moves from the fundamental properties of digital technologies (yesterday's focus) to what some suggest is that nature of digital technologies....more...
Formal education in most of its forms is still struggling to effectively harness digital technology to enhance and transform learning and teaching. Even with a history for 40+ years of various attempts. The reasons for this are numerous and diverse. The following is an attempt to look at one of the reasons. A reason, at least to me, which seems to have be somewhat ignored....more...
An attempt to start another MOOC.Β Learn to code for data analysis from FutureLearn/OUUK.Β Interested in this one to perhaps start the migration from Perl to Python as my main vehicle for data munging; and, also to check out the use of Jupyter notebooks as a learning environment....more...
Slides and abstract for the presentation can be found below....more...
End of semester 1 is fast approaching. One of the end of semester tasks is encouraging students in courses to complete the institutional Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) surveys. Last year I experimented with a "SET leaderboard" (see the following image). It's a table that lists the response rates on the SET surveys for the current and previous offerings of the course ranked according to the percentage response rate....more...
I have a problem with my Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) data!...more...
The following is a summary and some reflection upon...more...
Following is a quick report on installing and playing with the Moodle Heatmap block by Michael de Raadt. It's inspired by @damoclarky's Moodle Activity Viewer (MAV). Both tools modify Moodle web pages by overlaying a heatmap....more...
Earlier this year - as part of the Moodle Open Book project - I made some changes to Search Book block for Moodle. The hope being that my institution might install this on it's Moodle installation, which in turn would allow my students and I to search the ~70 Moodle books that make up the "learning path" for my course....more...
I'm currently reading "Automate this" by Christopher Steiner and came across the following...more...
Tim Klapdor writes about (along with a bunch of other stuff today) the process of discovering the concept of a technopedagogue and offers his translation of the French definition of that concept...more...
I'm working with a group of fellow teacher educators here at USQ to explore what is happening around student engagement with our online courses. It's driven by the apparent less than stellar responses on the QILT site from our prior students around "engagement". It's also driven by some disquiet about the limitations of aggregated and de-contextualised data like that reported on the QILT site and also that arising from most learning analytics (e.g. as found by GaΕ‘eviΔ et. al. (2015)....more...
I'm part of a group that's trying to take a deep dive into our courses using "learning analytics". My contribution is largely the technology side of it and its time to generate some pretty pictures.Β The following is a summary of some playing around with D3.js and ended up with some success with Plot.ly....more...
The following documents initial explorations into leveraging the two Learning Activity Types (LATs) short courses that have been released as Open Educational Resources (OERs) by Hofer and Harris (2016). As outlined in a prior post my plan is to use these OERs as a test case for the Moodle open book project. The aim being to...more...
"PEBKAC"Β (CC BY-NC 2.0)Β by Rafa EsteveΒ ...more...
The last post outlined the process for extracting data from ~300 student submissions. This one outlines what was done to actually do some analysis on that data....more...
A couple of weeks ago I wrote this post outlining the design of an Excel spreadsheet EDC3100 students were asked to use for their first assignment. They'll be using it to evaluate an ICT-based lesson plan. The assignment is due Tuesday and ~140 have submitted so far. It's time to develop the code that's going to help me analyse the student submissions....more...
SITE'2016 is almost finished, so it's past time I started sharing some of the finds and thoughts that have arisen. There's been a (very small) bit of movement around the notion of open. I'll write about LATs and OER and some possibilities in another post. This post is meant to explore the possibility of adapting some of the TPACK learning activities shared by @Keane_Kelly during her session into SPLOTs....more...
The following slides are for a (award winning no less) paper presented at SITE'2016 titled Mapping the digital practices of teacher educators: Implications for teacher education in changing digital landscapes....more...
A small group of teacher educators that I work with are starting to explore some research ideas around engagement, initial teacher education, and in particular the questions that arise out of the Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT)...more...
EDC3100 tries to get students engaged with writing their own blogs and following the blogs of others via a feed reader. Yes, just a bit old fashioned....more...
The following documents the (hopefully) last bit of extra work I have to undertake to prepare the digital "learning space" for EDC3100, ICT and Pedagogy. It's work that has taken most of my working day. At a time when I can't really afford it.Β But it's time I have to spend if I want to engage effectively in one of the most fundamental activities in teaching - know thy student....more...
Semester has commenced. First lecture yesterday. Big plans to use Zoom to "broadcast" the lecture to online students and to make a recording that could be shared with those who didn't want to/couldn't listen to my dulcet, droning tones at 8am on a Tuesday morning....more...
The following is a continuation of prior ponderings about about open educational practice (OEP) and open educational resources (OER) in the context of a potential institutional grant application. It's an attempt to make sense of some of the relevant literature I've read and figure out how that might influence the nascent project. In particular, it suggests that some of the OER/OEP literature is limited due to its focus on: OER; the individual; the institution; and, on searching as the means of discovery....more...
Last year my institution installed the Lucimoo epub export tool for the Moodle Book module. I did some of the testing of it. I'm particularly interested (but not overly) in its ability to export a book resource as an ePub file (see I'm innovative, I support the kiddies and their fancy new mobile devices). While the export basically works, the testing identified a number of problems. I've fixed most of those (mainly tidying up my hand-crafted HTML and that produced by a few tools I use)....more...
In June last year I started an exploration into the value of sentiment analysis of student blog posts. This morning I've actually gotten it to work. There may be some value, but further exploration is required. Here's the visible representation of what I've done....more...
Ben-Ari (1999) reports an experiment where 10 members of a University department were asked to verbalise their understandings as they completed tasks in Word. The aim was to explore their conceptual understanding of Word and its link with their use of Word. Ben-Ari (1999) writes...more...
David Jones, Elke Schneider...more...
For quite some time I've experienced and believed that there how universities are implementing digital learning has some issues that contribute to perceived problems with the quality of such learning and its associated teaching. The following is an outline of an exploratory research project intended to confirm (or not) aspects of this belief....more...
Jasperson, Carter & Zmud (2005)...more...
Earlier this week I attended a session given by the research ethics folk at my institution. One of the observations was that they'd run training sessions but almost no-one came. I've heard similar observations from L&T folk, librarians, and just about anyone else aiming to help academics develop new skills. Especially when people spend time and effort developing yet another you beaut website or booklet that provides everything one would want to know about a topic. There's also the broader trope developing about academics/teachers being digitally illiterate, which I'm increasingly seeing as unhelpful and perhaps even damaging....more...
Apparently there is a digital literacy/fluency problem with teachers. The 2014 Horizon Report for Higher Education identified the βLow Digital Fluency of Facultyβ as the number 1 βsignificant challenge impeding higher education technology adoptionβ. In the 2015 Horizon Report for Higher Education this morphs into "Improving Digital Literacy" being the #2 significant challenge. While the 2015 K-12 Horizon Report has "Integrating Technology in Teacher Education" as the #2 significant challenge....more...
As it happens, we've been talking and thinking about the Visitor/Resident typology (White & Cornu, 2011) that last couple of weeks. The network gods have been kind, because over night a post titled "The resident web and its impact on the academy" (Lanclos & White, 2015) floats across my Twitter stream. Much food for thought....more...
This is the 2nd post (first here) looking at Instructional Science 43(2) on the topic of "Teachers as designers of technology enhanced learning". This post looks at Matuk et al (2015)...more...
Some colleagues and I are starting to wonder about what type of "digital knowledge" teachers might need. This is occurring in the context of a re-design of a Bachelor of Education. This particular post is a summary of reading and thinking about ideas outlined in Kirschner (2015) and related writings. Apparently Instructional Science 43(2) feature contributions discussing "teacher as a design professional"....more...
The following is the outlines the core of the argument used in a talk to folk at UniSA today titled "The perceived uselessness of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) for e-learning". The argument is that the mindset underpinning the implementation of institutional e-learning within Universities focuses on widespread reuse across an institution (and sometimes beyond). As a result institutional e-learning has a tendency to remove considerations of context, which in turn reduces/removes any chance of learners and teachers perceiving any usefulness or ease-of-use from the provided systems and processes....more...
I've just started reading Capra & Luigi Luisi (2014), in large part because I think that the shift in scientific thinking they apparently describe in the book may have some useful insights for BAD/SET mindsets and trying to understand and improve digital learning....more...
Here we go again. There's an OECD report on "Students, Computers and Learning" that is doing the rounds. @palbion points to one media report...more...
The first key takeaway from Motz, Teague and Shepard (2015) is...more...
Β Β byΒ Β CRC, University of EdinburghΒ ...more...
22 years ago I helped a group of undergraduate Information Technology students set up CQ-PAN - Central Queensland - Public Access Network. An early attempt to allow CQ residents get on the Internet. CQ-PAN got used by a range of people for a range of tasks. In 1994 CQ-PAN started hosting mailing lists for a range of purposes, including for courses being taught by my then employer, the Department of Mathematics and Computing (who were funding the hardware)....more...
Two of my recent publications (Jones & Clark, 2015; Jones, Heffernan & Albion, 2016) seek to explore and identify the problems faced by teachers in developing the knowledge necessary to teach in e-learning/digital learning environments. Both suggest that there are significant problems with how this is currently done and offer some theoretical suggestions about how it might be improved. Jones & Clark (2015) suggest that the BAD/SET mindsets offer one way to understand the problems of the current approaches, and outline some fruitful ways forward....more...
Below you will find the slides, abstract, and references for a talk given to folk from the University of South Australia on 1 October, 2015. A later blog post outlines core parts of the argument....more...
Wood & Hollnagel (2006) start by presenting the Bounded Rationality syllogism...more...
In a section with the heading "ALL MODELS ARE WRONG BUT SOME ARE USEFUL", Box (1979) wrote...more...
I've been set a task (asked nicely really) by my Head of School if it is possible to produce a map that will allow all and sundry to see the geographic spread of our students....more...
The idea that everyone should know how to code is increasingly dominant and increasingly questioned. In terms of a required skill that everyone should know, I remain sitting on the fence. But if you are currently teaching in a contemporary university where e-learning (technology enhanced learning, digital learning, online learning, choose your phrase) forms a significant part of what you do, then I think you should seriously consider developing the skill....more...
This is a follow on from yesterday's post weaving in a few posts from netgl participants....more...
Β Β byΒ Β HA! Designs - ArtbyheatherΒ ...more...
Riel and Pollin (2004) talk about a view of learning that sees learning occurring...more...
@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...
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...
It's once again time to process final results for a course and return the final assignment. A process that involves...more...
The following documents some initial exploration into why, if, and how sentiment analysis might be added to the BIM module for Moodle. BIM is a tool that helps manage and mirror blog posts from individual student blogs. Sentiment analysis is an application of algorithms to identify the sentiment/emotions/polarity of a person/author through their writing and other artefacts. The theory is that sentiment analysis can alert a teacher if a student has written something that is deemed sad, worried, or confused; but also happy, confident etc....more...
The last assignment for the course EDC3100, ICT and Pedagogy was due to be submitted yesterday. Right now the Moodle assignment activity (a version somewhat modified by my institution) is showing that 193 of 318 enrolled students have submitted assignments....more...
As part of the "Moodle open book" project I'm hoping to increase my knowledge of what the Moodle community has already discussed about the Book module. The following is a summary of the process I'm using to analyse those discussions....more...
My tweet stream reminded me this morning that #oer15 is up and running. The following tweet from @courosa was amongst the first I saw....more...
Back in February I shared shared some thoughts about some ideas for grants for producing an "open textbook" at my current institution. In the end, these thoughts were translated into an application which has just been officially announced as being successful. The following is my first attempt to get my head back into the project and outline...more...
The following is skewed by my experiences and perspectives and does not represent the full picture. Hopefully everyone sharing their perspectives will broaden the diversity represented in our discussions....more...
As mentioned in the last post there are limitations in the Moodle book module that are acting as a concrete lounge. The following documents an attempt to help improve the module....more...
My institution has some grants available to produce open textbooks. The following is an attempt to develop an interesting idea that might be funded by such a grant....more...
The following is (hopefully) the first in a growing list of concrete lounges that I've faced in institutional e-learning. The concrete lounge metaphor is my attempt to explore the reality of university e-learning, to illustrate some possible reasons why it continues to be so wrong, and see what can be done to address those reasons....more...
In Jones and Clark (2014) we drew on Damien's (Clark) development of the Moodle Activity Viewer (MAV) as an example of how bricolage, affordances and distribution (the BAD mindset) can add some value to institutional e-learning. My empirical contribution to that paper was talking about how I'd extended MAV so that when I was answering a student query in a discussion forum I could quickly see relevant information about that student (e.g. their major, which education system they would likely be teaching into etc)....more...
This paper analyses the outcomes of what a small group of academics (myself included) attempted to do to develop the knowledge/capability to develop effective learning for hundreds of pre-service teachers via e-learning. That experience is analysed using a distributive view of knowledge and learning and illustrates just how broken what passes for ed tech support/academic staff development in some universities. Picking up on yesterday's post, the paper reports on academics harnessing their digital fluency to address the almost complete lack of usefulness of the institutionally developed attempts at supporting academic staff in developing the knowledge necessary for effective e-learning....more...
Motaghian et al (2013) in talking about "web-based learning systems" (LMS) conclude that (p. 167)...more...
I have fulfilled my organisational duty and attended and participated in a 3 hour workshop intended to achieve some level of shared vision within the organisation. As always I remain cynical about likely impact such sessions will have on the organisation and my experience of it. There was, however, some benefit in making me aware of Schein's three levels of organisational culture (apparently from this book) and summarised in the following table (and more on wikipedia)....more...
The following is a summary and some thoughts on Harland (2014). The abstract for the paper is...more...
The following is an attempt to give some structure to what I might do this year in terms of teaching and research. It's in the same spirit as a similar post by Tim Klapdor. A summary of my possible contribution to 2015, rather than a set of predictions for 2015. More in line with Alan Kay's quote...more...
Late last year @salvetore read and commented on the "three paths" paper that @beerc and @rolley wrote for ASCILITE'2014. (Always nice to know that someone reads a paper). The following is a response I've just added to the thread on the Moodle research discussion forum. In particular, picking up on two suggestions from Sean Dicks, which badly summarised are...more...
The following is a draft of a paper that has been accepted at the SITE'2015 conference, and which has just been selected as a SITE 2015 Outstanding Paper....more...
The following does a compare and contrast between the "what is" of university e-learning systems and the "what might be". There are three sections...more...
moreStudentDetails.user.js is a Greasemonkey script I've written to provide more details about a student when I'm using Moodle. Originally intended to help when responding to a student query in a course I teach that regularly has 300+ pre-service teachers from a range of backgrounds and locations. The current version produces something like the following image (click on it to see a larger version)....more...
The following is an attempt to expand and connect some thoughts from a soon to be presented ASCILITE'2014 paper titled Breaking BAD to bridge the the reality/rhetoric chasm" (this link will eventually have a range of additional resources). The expand part of this post is me trying to experiment with some approaches of explaining what we're trying to get at. Hopefully with the aim of being convincing. The "connect" part of this post aims to connect with some of the discussion about the LMS that has gone on recently....more...
This is a development log of a few additions to the recent fixes to the Peoplesoft gradebook. The following documents attempts to implement the following...more...
The following is a development log of an attempt to fix one aspect of the Peoplesoft gradebook used at my current institution....more...
A couple of weeks ago @kateMfD wrote a post asking "What next for the LMS?". (one of a raft of LMS posts doing the rounds recently). Kate's point was in part that...more...
I'm finally getting/creating a smidgin of time to continue exploring what "distributed" views of knowledge and learning might say about understanding and helping teachers (of all ilks) learn more about what they do. The following is a summary of Putnam and Borko (2000)...more...
[ Β Β byΒ Β woodleywonderworksΒ ...more...
Β Β byΒ Β TheGiantVerminΒ ...more...
The following is a copy of a paper accepted at ASCILITE'2014 (and nominated for best paper) written by myself and Damien Clark (CQUniversity - @damoclarky). The official conference version of the paper is available as a PDF....more...
The 2014 Horizon Report for Higher Education has identified the "Low Digital Fluency of Faculty" as the number 1 "significant challenge impeding higher education technology adoption". I have many problems with this, but the image below captures my main problem....more...
Paper accepted to ASCILITE'2014 and nominated for best paper....more...
@damoclarky and I got a bit lucky. Our ASCILITE paper has been accepted with revisions. Apparently the first reviewer hated the "theoretical construct" we were using to make our argument. The following is what we originally wrote, sharing it here to hopefully spark some critique and improvement (and also not to entirely waste the writing when I gut it and start again)....more...
Β Β byΒ Β john.d.mcdonaldΒ ...more...
The following is the first step in an attempt to modify the Moodle Activity Viewer (or at least a local instance). I'd like a modified version of MAV to allow me to...more...
The following documents a quick kludge required for the assessment for a course I teach. It's primarily a document to help me think through the task and document what was done and why....more...
What follows is a long overdue summary of Ciborra (1992). I think it will have a lot of insight for how universities implement e-learning. The abstract for Ciborra (1992) is...more...
This post arises from two events today...more...