I’m late to the last lecture meme. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, take some time (76 minutes) out of your life and watch Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture on achieving your childhood dreams. One of the comments on YouTube suggest that there is nothing new in the lecture. Perhaps, but it’s the type […]
Monthly Archives: July 2008
Yesterday I gave a presentation at CQU titled “The Ps Framework: Mapping the landscape for the PLEs@CQUni project”. The slides are on Slideshare and the video on Google video and are embedded below. The presentation is meant to help in the writing of a paper for ASCILITE 2008 conference (one of the reasons for the […]
We’re in the process of getting serious about our PLEs@CQUni project. The following is a copy of a submission to CQUni’s Vice-Chancellor’s Executive to tell them about the project. Sharing it here so others can know what we’re trying to do and why and also on the off chance that others might criticise and suggest […]
This post is a combination “message to the troops” and thinking about how to encourage use of a discipline based learning network. Message to the troops The “message to the troops” is some advice to the poor folk who work with me about how to manipulate/understand me. It probably applies to others at CQU who […]
Much of what we do involves enabling academics (and students) to become familiar with particular technologies. Sufficiently familiar to think about how they can use it in their learning and teaching. We’ve had to do it with Blackboard and we’ll have to do it with Second Life. The aim of this post is to reflect […]
The group I work with is charged with helping CQUniversity staff make use of various innovations around educational technology. One of the difficulties if giving staff a taste of the breadth of possibilities for what a new technology might be able to do. One tool for doing that is a taxonomy, conceptual framework or a […]
In a growing category of blog posts I’m expanding and attempting to apply my interest in diffusion theory and related theories to increase the use of course websites. A major requirement, as outlined in the previous post, in achieving this requires and understanding of what students find useful? In this post, I’m trying to bring […]
In a previous post I laid out some rationale for an organisational approach to increase the usage of course websites. In this post I provide more detail on the rationale behind the pragmatic approach, which was described this way in that previous post. Pragmatic – ad hoc changes to particular aspects of a course website. […]
CQUni has an interest in increasing the quality of the course websites, as part of a broader push to improve the quality of learning and teaching. This post is an attempt to engage with some of the issues and develop some suggestions for moving forward. There are many an argument why this particular focus on […]
