One of the themes for this blog is that the majority of current approaches to improving learning and teaching within universities simply don’t work. At least not in terms of enabling improvement in a majority of the learning and teaching at an institution. Recently I finally completed reading the last bits of the book Nudge […]
Monthly Archives: May 2010
The following details an attempt to use user/messageselect.php with BIM in an attempt to move towards implementing an email merge facility for BIM. BIM passing users The intent here is that BIM will be used to select the users and will pass it to message select. The first test will be to replace the current […]
This carries on “bits” from chapter 5 of the thesis. It’s a rough draft of a description of the institutional context within CQU from 2000 onwards. It’s brief and targeted mainly at the factors which impact on Webfuse development. It needs more work and checking. If you have any suggestions, fire away. Institutional changes In […]
Back working on the thesis. The following is a rough draft of the introduction and part of the first section from Chapter 5 of the thesis. This chapter is starting to tell the story of Webfuse from 2000 to 2004 and beyond. As I’m reading and writing, I’m remembering all sorts of details, which has […]
One of the issues I have to address with the BIM Moodle module is the provision of an email merge facility. I (and a couple of other people I know) haven’t been able to find how to do this within Moodle. The following outlines one proposal for how this might be done within Moodle 1.9. […]
The following outlines steps to continue work on BIM’s backup and restore functionality. As per this issue the user part of the back up has errors. It appears that the code was actually working. Re-create the problem It’s been a few months since I worked on this. Have to re-create the problem first. Looking through […]
This post is a summary of work being done to update the Moodle indicators block so that it can support multiple visualisation tools and approaches. Problem The indicators block is aimed (at least for me) to be a way in which various visual insights (indicators) about what is going on within Moodle can be shown […]
The following is an attempt to explain the initial description and rationale of an exploratory research project (perhaps ethnographic, narrative inquiry or some similar qualitative methodology) aimed at understanding what teachers/academics actually experience within a particular environment during a single term. The assumption is that by better understanding the lived experience of the teaching staff […]
A couple of days ago I wrote the last few sentences for a fairly serious first draft of chapter 4 of the thesis. This chapter has to be re-read by me, read by my esteemed supervisor and then by a copy editor, so it’s not finished yet. But it’s a step closer. This chapter tells […]
The purpose of this post is to provide a concrete description of how curriculum mapping of a Moodle course might work. The hope is that this will enable a broader array of people to comment on the approach and, in particular, identify flaws or problems. So, please comment. This is being done as part of […]
