May, 2010
A Silly Game?
Yesterday lunch time the hastag meme #lesserbooks started flowing into my Twitter stream. The aim of this game was to think of a book title that was a lesser version of a famous original. For example ‘The Great Gatsby’ might be posted as ‘The Modest Gatsby’, you get the picture. Similar memes go around from [...]
The Effect of Casualisation in Higher Education on the Adoption of Educational Technology
I was discussing the problem of creating a broader adoption of educational technologies across the university with colleagues when they told me that 50% of the people they have to deal with are employed casually. It was therefore difficult to provide adequate functional and pedagogical training to such staff who were, typically, only employed to [...]
The Problem with MOPPs
Does your university have a minimum online presence policy (MOPP)? Is it successful? I have a bit of a problem with MOPPs. I don’t think they work and, in fact, I think they are counterproductive. Here are my reasons: 1. Command and control Let’s face it universities aren’t corporations and never have been despite what [...]
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