Educational Technology
The Size of Universities in Australia and the UK
For a long time I have been interested in organisational innovation. At the the moment that is focussed on the way that higher education and universities specifically can adopt and mainstream innovations in eductaional technicology and changing pedgagogy related to the adoption of new technologies. One barrier to innovation adoption may be related to the [...]
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 [...]
Assessment Manager Part 1 – Overview
In 2004 I wrote a web application for managing student assessments. It was primarily designed for handling the submission of assessments from large cohorts of students. It manages the assessment lifecycle including creating assignments, managing marking schemes, handling submissions, distributing groups of assignments to assessors, facilitating easier online marking, enhancing rapid feedback and the moderation [...]
Is a PhD really necessary?
I saw a job advertised recently as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Teaching and Learning at Deakin University. The role revolves around working with academic staff to improve their teaching and learning practice, provide staff development, evaluation of teaching, dissemination of good practice, provide educational technology leadership and lots of the standard stuff [...]
Goodbye to eportfolios for a fee?
I’ve argued for a while that, whilst I agree with the idea of eportfolios as a way of demonstrating student learning, I have a few concerns about the way that some universities have implemented eportfolios. I have always believed that an eportfolio should ‘belong’ to the student user and should be independant of the university. [...]
The Decade Ahead in Higher EdTech
Well it’s the end of the decade and the new one has just started. I thought that, in the name of a harmless bit of fun, I would stick my neck out and make a few predictions about where we might be going with edtech in universities over the next decade. I’ve kept it brief [...]
Direct from the Innovation Prevention Department
I was watching the Twitter stream for the ASCILITE 2009 conference this morning during the final keynote from @jamesclay with a certain amount of dismay as tweets regarding the ‘Innovation Prevention Department’ (IPD) started to appear. The reference was to IT Services organisations in tertiary education. Now I wasn’t at the conference so I don’t [...]
New Additions to Public LMS Evaluations
Just to let you all know that I have added another two universities to the list publically available LMS evaluations bring the total to ten. You can find the full list here.
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