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Selling Solar Panels to Oil Sheiks
In a reflective mood on my Friday evening commute home I tweeted that: Being an advocate of #elearning and #edtech in universities is a bit like trying to sell solar panels to oil sheiksless than a minute ago via SeesmicMark Smithersmarksmithers
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
BlackBoard, Sakai and Moodle – Point/Counterpoint at Educause 2009
This very interesting discussion was held recently at the Educause 2009 Conference in Denver.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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