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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Jess
July 1994 to April 2010 In late August 1994 my then partner Guinevere and I saw an advert for Border Collie pups in the newspaper while visiting my Mum at my family home near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. I had grown up with a lovely Border Collie called Smudge, who had died a few years before [...]
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