Educational Technology
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 [...]
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 [...]
Selling Solar Panels to Oil Sheiks
In a reflective mood on my Friday evening commute home I tweeted that: Being an advocate of #elearning and #edtech in universities is a bit like trying to sell solar panels to oil sheiksless than a minute ago via SeesmicMark Smithersmarksmithers
Response to: ‘Anatomy of a PLE’
The following is a response to a blog post by Steve Wheeler (@timbuckteeth). I tried to post it as a comment but it was too large so here it is instead.
The PLE as a Single Tool and the Issue of Institutional Lock-in
I had a very enjoyable evening listening/watching the livestream of the opening unkeynote address at The PLE Conference facilitated by @courosa and @grahamattwell. The format was great, particularly for the tight buggers who didn’t pay the conference fees but were attending remotely from all over the world. Basically they presented a series of questions about [...]
Spoken Like a True Non-Academic
I had an interesting experience last month, I was asked to participate in focus groups to help a university IT services department develop its IT strategy for the next 5 years. The brief was to help generate ideas for what might be required to inform a five year strategy but we were also asked to [...]
A Draft Educational Technology Landscape Map
I’ve been working on educational technology strategy and implementation for what feels like as long as I can remember but one thing I have always intended to do was to develop a visualisation of educational technologies in the form of a ‘map’. There are a number of such maps around already. Some of these are [...]
A Brief Review of the VDIT (e)learning Environments Forum
Last Friday (25th June, 2010) I attended the Victorian Directors of Information Technology (VDIT) (e)Learning Environments Forum which turned out to be a bit like a curate’s egg, good in places. Before I talk about the day, just a bit of background. VDIT is the representative group for the Directors of Information Technology of the [...]
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