Mark Smithers

Learning and Educational Technology in Higher Education

October, 2009

Google Wave in a Sentence

Well it’s been a week since I was kindly sent an invitation to Google Wave. I have to admit that at first I was a little underwhelmed but since then, as I have started to add contacts, I I have started to see it’s potential. Before I talk a bit about it’s positives I would [...]

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Comparing the Horizon Report 2009 and Horizon Report 2009 for Australia and New Zealand

The EDUCAUSE Horizon Report for Australia and New Zealand 2009 was published recently. I thought I would just compare the findings for Australia and New Zealand with those for the US Horizon Report 2009 published earlier this year.

Insidious Pedagogy – some thoughts on Lisa Lane’s article

I have just read Lisa Lane’s article in First Monday entitled “Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems impact teaching”. I really liked her paper, not least because it raised some issues that I hadn’t considered before regarding default settings in an LMS and the idea of opt in and opt out learning management systems. It [...]

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