Educational Technology
22 Big Lists for Educators
A bit tongue in cheek this post but here is a list of big lists that might be useful for people interested in education, educational technology and e-learning. A fully expect that soon we will be having lists of lists of lists but there you go. These are some of the big lists I’ve bookmarked [...]
Educational Technology and e-Learning Finds for the Week
These are a selection of my Delicious bookmarks for the week that I’ve tagged as either elearning or educational technology.
Playing with Wordle
I just though I would have a play with Wordle and see what it came up with for my Delicious tags. Here is the result….
Educational Technology and e-Learning Finds for the Week
These are the bookmarks that I have saved to my delicious account using the elearning or edtech tags during the last week.
Some Ways Universities Will Change Over Ten Years
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, I am currently working on a roadmap for educational technology in my university over the next ten years. Of course when looking over such a period it becomes crucial to try and anticipate the changing roles and functions of universities over that period so that we can think about [...]
Brainstorming EdTech
I’m in the process of developing a roadmap for the future of educational technology at my institution so that we can plan for the next 3, 5 and 10 year periods. As you might expect this is reasonably challenging but it is also quite an enjoyable activity. I would expect the next ten years to be an exceptionally interesting time to be working in IT in higher education.
Effective Practice with e-Portfolios
Thanks to @catspyjamasnz who gave me a link today to this useful report from the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) on effective practice with e-Portfolios (this is a PDF document approx. 700MB). I haven’t finished reading yet but I find it interesting particularly in light of a session that I attended last week with [...]
Clive Shepherd Presentation on the e-learning skills gap
This is an interesting presentation from Clive Shepherd that discusses the skills gap that individuals and institutions face. I have been mulling on many of these issues myself over the last couple of years in particular. Increasingly academic staff are facing a bewildering array of choices in the tools that they can use for course [...]
Interesting Research on the Reuse of Open Educational Resources (OER)
I stumbled on this interesting blog post on the lack of reuse of OER. It reports the findings of a recent PhD thesis examining the extent of OER reuse within one particular collection. I won’t repeat the summary findings here as you see them summarised on the post itself and you can view the full [...]
Learning Management Systems at Australian Universities
During April, 2009 I carried out an informal bit of research to see what Australian universities were using as their principal, enterprise wide Learning Management System (LMS). This was simply based on visiting each university web site and attempting to find out which LMS was being used. This was easier in some cases than others. [...]
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