In short, can we get an Eduhack style event running at ASCILITE'12? Want to help? If you want, skip to the point...more...
Welcome folk from UHI. Hope you find this interesting. Your e-learning portal is here. Good luck with it all....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...
In the following I reflect on my aborted and half-baked attempts at harnessing design patterns within the practice of e-learning at universities and wonder whether it was a lost opportunity and/or a project that was destined to fail. This is written in the light shed by the work of a number of other folk (Google "patterns for e-learning"), including the current JISC-emerge project and, I believe, the related Pattern Language Network....more...
In a previous post examining one reason folk don't take to e-learning I included the following quote from a book by Carolyn Marvin...more...
This presentation by Dave Thomas talks about the Dreyfuss Model of Skill Aquisition and how it applies to software development. However, the ideas and insights seem to apply to a number of other contexts, in particularly learning and teaching at Universities. I certainly found a lot of points that resonated....more...
Yesterday I attended a session by George Siemens with the title "Extending the classroom: Open content and open teaching". The presentation was video-conferenced from the Sunshine Coast to a range of locations across Australia. I was in a room at CQUniversity in Rockhampton with quite a number of folk. What follows are my reflections on that talk....more...
For some time I have thought that one of the major barriers to improving/innovation in learning and teaching has been the consistency of practice and mindset held by discipline based groups. Now I've got some suggestion of a research basis for this view. This post attempts to explain my view, outline the research basis and draw implications for the practice of learning and teaching at Universities....more...
A previous post announced that a group of folk at CQUniversity are about to embark on a project/exercise with the aim of helping people develop ideas for research and turn them into publications....more...
We're about to embark on a little experiment in the scholarship of learning and teaching going under the tag react2008. The fundamental aim is to help improve the quality of papers we will write that are targeted for publication at EdMedia'2009. The experiment is going by the names of either react2008 or writers' workshop. The project as a central website....more...
Starting with a review by Will thalheimer I came across the book The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results by Calhoun Wick et al....more...
I'm currently working on a paper/idea which is essentially seeking to argue that the herding cats metaphor. This metaphor's most famous instantiation is the EDS herding cats commercial. It is a metaphor/phrase that is often used within higher education, especially when someone has tried to get academics to do something. It's often equated to herding cats....more...
For at least the last 5 years there has been an increasing drive for university academics to have formal credentials in learning and teaching. The essential argument is that you wouldn't go to a medical doctor who hadn't been trained in medicine, so why should you be taught at university by a person who has been trained in teaching....more...
Just working my way through Pettit (2005) which tells the story of how the OUK used online conferencing for staff development around e-learning. What I'm finding useful to my situation is the literature review which covers some of the issues around this issue and which connects nicely with some earlier ideas....more...
Simon (1996, p 130) writing about the connection between what is designed (product) and the process used to designed it, says...more...
Teemu Leinonen has a good post about Participatory Design and Scenarios in Learning. It outlines some norms behind participatory design, explains the use of scenarios and makes connections between participatory designs and other "paradigms" (e.g. social constructivist theory of learning and open source development)....more...
A nice quote for REACT comes from Campbell, Gibson and Grammlich (2005)...more...
A lot of educational innovations are reported to be prevented/plagued with the "not invented here" syndrome that prevents adoption. One perspective on this is that this is blame allocation by the producer of the innovator. i.e. it's not my fault, but the fault of those recalcitrant adopters, they are rejecting my idea because of sheer bloody-mindedness....more...
Knowledge Management in the Learning Society is a book from the OECD that examines the issues in and around education due to the changes in society - the learning society....more...