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.
Say Hello to the Newest TLA on the Block – LMP
I noticed a reference to Moodle LMP in my Twitter stream tonight and, wondering what an LMP actually was, I ended up at this post by Mary Bold talking about upcoming conferences.
BlackBoard, Sakai and Moodle – Point/Counterpoint at Educause 2009
This very interesting discussion was held recently at the Educause 2009 Conference in Denver.
Social and cultural aspects of the Internet (PhD scholarships, Melbourne)
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