Came across this presentation, "Learning how to learn" (a bit ra-ra, but covers many of the bases for changes in the world and implications for learning). It includes this quote...more...
As part of the LAK11 course Howard Johnson has commented on an earlier post of mine. This post is a place holder for a really nice quote from Howard's post, an example from recent media reports, and perhaps a bit of a reflection on responses to analytics....more...
This is a simple holding place for some ideas and quotes from George Siemens' recent Connectivism: Changing times talk....more...
Am busy reading and trying to do up a grant application, when I should be working on the PhD. However, I couldn't bypass this quote from FUllan (2001: 65)...more...
Doing some reading and came across the following quote which I had to store for further use. It is quote in Chua (1986) and is ascribed to Berlin (1962, p 19)...more...
Increasingly, the IT requirements of organisations are being met through the application of "enterprise systems". Large systems created by commercial vendors (though increasingly there are also open source variants, which while offering small improvements still suffer some of the same problems) that are meant to provide an integrated solution to a large scale system with an appraoch that combines "best practice" processes and techniques with information technology that will "scale" to meet the requirements of the organisation. Examples including ERP systems like Peoplesoft for finance, human resources and, at universities, student enrolment. In terms of e-learning at Universities the current dominant approach is also to employ "enterprise systems". With e-learning the "enterprise system" is known as the learning management system (lms), course management system (cms), virtual learning environment (vle) or some other 3 letter acronym. Examples include: Blackboard, Moodle and Sakai....more...
While chasing down some work by Fullan on educational change I came across the following well-known quote that happens to, based on recent experience, have a fair bit of resonance....more...
Theoretically, I'm in the process of starting a new job/ that is focused on encouraging e-learning and innovation within a university context. I'm still reading some of the different literature but the following quotes resonate with me around this position and how it is likely to evolve....more...
Given my pre-occupation with the thesis, which involves the formulation of a design theory for e-learning. It's of little surprise that I have an interest in the theory, practice and e-learning. Came across the following quote this morning in checking some literature, and I like it - new quote for a thesis chapter....more...
For the PhD I'm essentially proposing that the current industrial model of e-learning adopted (almost without exception) by universities is a complete and utter mismatch with the nature of the problem. As a consequence of this mismatch e-learning will continue to have little impact, be of limited quality and continue to be characterised by 5 yearly projects to replace a software system rather than a focus on an on-going process of improving learning and teaching by using the appropriate and available tools....more...
Just another quote, but a good one. And one that connects with a recent post about the difficulty of getting agreement around learning and teaching and the difficulty this creates within universities when you want to try and improve the quality of that learning and teaching....more...
There is a definition of insanity that I've seen seen attributed to either Einstein or Benjamin Franklin,...more...
In a couple of recent posts (and this one) I've essentially been arguing that most evaluation of teaching at universities is actually worse the useless. The following quote from White (2006) provides some additional ammunition....more...
Thinking about reflective alignment, I came across the following quote in Booth and Anderberg (2005). Thought it might be useful so am saving it here....more...
It's amazing at how perspectives around technology and its use in education don't change. In the presentation on this page I use some quotes from the what if presentation by Karl Fisch to outline some previous fearful perspectives on the impact of technology on learning that mirror many of the perspectives held of e-learning....more...
Wesley Fryer has a post summarising a talk given by Sir Ken Robinson. I'm pulling out a few relevant quotes/recollections for later use....more...
Came across the following quote in Mischra and Koehler (2006), storing it here for future use....more...
A lot of what I do could be seen as innovation. In the past I was a "faculty teaching and learning innovation officer" and I may well take on such a role in the future. Today, I came across the following quote from Douglas Adams which seems connected to the idea of innovation....more...
In a recent post I started my collection of quotes on this blog. I also talked about the "mere exposure effect" and suggested it's one reason behind the horseless carriage approach to using new technology. It's also one reason why people resist new technology - especially e-learning/computer technology....more...
This is the first post in my new "quotes" section. Acting as a storage place for all the interesting insights I come across....more...
Peter Drucker from "The Effective Executive"...more...
The essence of strategy is the close view of distant things and the distant view of close things -- Sun Tzu...more...