The following illustrates how the game Number Scrabble and Herb Simon's thoughts on the importance of design representation appears likely to help with migration of 1000s of course sites from Blackboard Learn (aka Blackboard Original) to another LMS. Not to mention becoming useful post-migration....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...
Following is a summary of Johanson and Hasselbring (2018) and an exploration of what, if anything, it might suggest for learning design and learning analytics. Johanson and Hasselbring (2018) explore why scientists whom have been developing software to do science (computational science) haven't been using principles and practices from software engineering to develop this software. The idea is that such an understanding will help frame advice for how computational science can be improved through application of appropriate software engineering practice (**assumption**)....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...
The following post contains the content from a poster designed for the 2017 USQ Toowoomba L&T celebration event. It provides some rationale for a technology demonstrator at USQ based on the Moodle Activity Viewer....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...
@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...
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...
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...
The following is a list of updates I need to make to a perl script I wrote last year that helps me properly attribute the Creative Commons licenced Flickr photos I use in presentations. This list arises from prepare the welcome video for this year's course. Most, if not all, of the updates are to make it easier to use, prevent the chance of "spam" like behaviour and deal with apparent reliability issues with the Flickr API....more...