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...
@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...
As part of NGL the plan was to play with Mendely as a medium, but some limitations of Mendeley meant it didn't quite fit the bill....more...
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The plan by now was that I would have spent a few weeks engaging with the readings from NETGL and figuring out what they can offer some insights for enhancing and transforming the two courses I currently teach. By this time I'd also have set up my new domain (something I have actually done) and moved this blog to that domain. But that was not to be. Connected courses is starting soon and it's to relevant and interesting to not engage....more...
So once again I venture into the realm of a "MOOC". Will be interesting to see if the organisers of Connected Courses shudder a little bit when that particular label is used. Especially given that Connected Courses is being described as...more...