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More dead edtech please
Last night Twitter pointed me in the direction of a new Seth Godin post entitled “Bring me stuff that’s dead, please” in which he bemoans the the way ‘drive by technoratti‘ are obsessed with whatever the latest technology is. He makes the point that: “Only when an innovation is dead can the real work begin.” [...]
Is lecture capture the worst educational technology?
Is lecture capture the single worst example of poor educational technology use in higher education? Many institutions seem to be completely obsessed with lecture capture technology as a method of generating flexibly accesible learning content. For me though the large scale implementation of lecture capture is probably one of the costliest and strategically misguided educational [...]
eLearning at Universities: A Quality Assurance Free Zone?
Over the last couple of months I have been asked to help a university (that will remain nameless) in its transition to a newer version of of its Learning Management System (LMS). As part of this I have had to access many LMS course spaces to check that content has migrated successfully and that that [...]
ALTC and Innovation
I wrote a post last week on the demise of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) but never actually published it. Thankfully David Jones (@djplaner) wrote a much more thoughtful and balanced post about the topic on his own blog which is well worth reading. Particularly his thoughts on the culture of research incentives [...]
Edublog Award Nominations 2010
I think I just have time to submit nominations for the 2010 Edublog Awards. My nominations this year are in three categories and go to:
Who Influences Ya Baby?
With apologies to those who are too young to have watched Kojak. I’ve been thinking about who influences my thinking and why. I thought it might be quite nice to list them here. Maybe there are some people here that you think might be interesting to follow yourself or maybe there are people that you [...]
Newman’s ‘The Idea of a University’
Last week it was my pleasure to attend a symposium hosted by the Rector of Newman College held at the University of Melbourne in honour of John Henry Newman for whom the College is named. The symposium consisted of presentations from the Vice Chancellors of the University of Melbourne, Monash University and the Australian Catholic [...]
Notes from the Inaugural National Learning and Teaching Forum
This week I attended the, grandly titled, Inaugural National Learning and Teaching Forum being held in Melbourne. It was an interesting experience. It was not a large forum by any means but the list of speakers was impressive, including Professors from many universities and many senior academic managers. The first day really focussed on quality [...]
Reforming the university: evolution or revolution? – A Response
As a ‘disenfranchised insider’ I really enjoyed reading Tony Bates’blog post ‘Reforming the university: evolution or revolution?’. In it Dr Bates discusses change in universities from a stakeholder point of view and considers Faculty, Students, Government and the Economy. He concludes by saying: My view is that universities do need to change quite radically, and [...]
Wrong on so many levels
I read an article in The Age on Tuesday titled ‘Politics wanes on the digital campus’. It was essentially about the changes in university campus life over the last forty years and it was quite an interesting read. What struck me though was the following couple of sentences: “Online lectures make an easy symbol for [...]
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