The following was sparked by this blog post from Col Beer titled: "Is it time to reignite the argument around shadow systems?"...more...
COVID-19 and the subsequent #pivotonline has higher education paying a lot more attention to the use of digital and online technology for learning and teaching (digital education). COVID-19 has made digital education necessary. COVID-19 has made any form of education – and just about anything else – more difficult. For everyone. COVID-19 and it’s impact is rewriting what higher education will be after. COVID-19 is raising hopes and fears that what will come after will be (positively?) transformative. Not beholden to previous conceptions and corporate mores....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...
One of my continuing "rants" that long-time readers of this blog will be familiar with is the lack of fit between enterprise systems and what people want to do with them. I've blogged about this with enterprise systems, learned to live and thrive in spite of that gap and drawn some lessons from it for enterprise systems....more...
I have a thing against large scale enterprise information systems (such as ERP systems like Peoplesoft or learning management systems - commercial or open source) and how they are generally implemented within organisations. This morning provides a wonderful example of why....more...
T. S. Elliot's poem The Hollow Men has a section that goes...more...