Google Wave in a Sentence
Well it’s been a week since I was kindly sent an invitation to Google Wave. I have to admit that at first I was a little underwhelmed but since then, as I have started to add contacts, I I have started to see it’s potential. Before I talk a bit about it’s positives I would [...]
Comparing the Horizon Report 2009 and Horizon Report 2009 for Australia and New Zealand
The EDUCAUSE Horizon Report for Australia and New Zealand 2009 was published recently. I thought I would just compare the findings for Australia and New Zealand with those for the US Horizon Report 2009 published earlier this year.
Insidious Pedagogy – some thoughts on Lisa Lane’s article
I have just read Lisa Lane’s article in First Monday entitled “Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems impact teaching”. I really liked her paper, not least because it raised some issues that I hadn’t considered before regarding default settings in an LMS and the idea of opt in and opt out learning management systems. It [...]
Why my Personal Learning Network is Important to Me
Personal learning networks and personal learning environments are featuring highly as topics of discussion in e-learning and educational technology at the moment. I thought I would take the step into public self broadcasting and record a short video about why my PLN is important to me and some of the tools that I used to [...]
Public LMS Evaluations
Many universities are currently, or have recently, reviewed their enterprise LMS including my own employer. Unfortunately we haven’t made our review process public but many universities have been generous enough to provide information about their reviews. The following list are some of the publicly available LMS reviews that I have found. These were really useful [...]
Delicate Geniuses
I was having a look at the Times Higher Education site the other day when a post entitled “Students get marks just for turning up” caught my eye. The post describes how some universities have been accused of bribing undergraduates by awarding assessment marks simply for turning up.
PLEs, PLEs Me
I have just finished read a really interesting post by @mollybob on the growth model for personal learning environments (PLE). This coincided with reading @catspyjamasnz post on the relationship between a PLE and a PLN (personal learning network). It’s a subject that’s close to my heart at the moment as we consider the implications of [...]
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 [...]
Re-arranging Deck Chairs
I spent most of last week in Coolongatta at the CAUDIT-Educause Institute 2009. For those unfamiliar with the terms, CAUDIT is the Council of Australian Universities Directors of Information Technology and Educause is the peak body promoting intelligent use of information technology in higher education. The Institute has run annually in Australia since 2002 and [...]
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.
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