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. It has me wondering Are […]
Are our institutions digital visitors? What are the impacts on learning and teaching?
Self-assertive and integrative tendencies and the connection to the BAD/SET mindsets
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. In the first chapter they propose two tendencies – the self-assertive and the integrative – are both […]
The perceived uselessness of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) for e-learning
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. Slides Abstract In a newspaper article (Laxon, 2013), Professor Mark Brown described e-learning as a bit like teenage sex. Everyone says they’re doing it but […]
Digital learning: It's déjà vu all over again
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). Due to time constraints a slightly longer version of the slides has replaced. Abstract The initial steps of my university teaching career commenced in […]
