The following is the next part of the evaluation section of chapter 5 of my thesis. It seeks to evaluate how well the Webfuse system fulfilled the guideline of “an integrated online learning environment” for the period 2000-2004. This is only the first section which talks about the provision of course sites. Subsequent sections will […]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
This is the second version of an earlier post. As I wrote more of the chapter I felt the need to revisit and expand the idea (though the following is still at a rough draft stage). The following describes the rationale and implementation behind the implementation of the default course sites approach within Webfuse. This […]
This is the second post containing a part of the evaluation section of chapter 5 of my PhD thesis. It looks at how much/well Webfuse acted as a web publishing tool during 2000-2004. There’s not much here, as this is not the focus. A web publishing tool As described in Chapter 4, the original design […]
This is one part of the Evaluation section of Chapter 5 of my PhD thesis. It’s actually the fourth section, but it’s the first to have reached a rough first draft stage. The basic aim is to show how the Webfuse interventions from 2000 through 2004 (and beyond) increased the flexibility and diversity of the […]
In the last post I outlined some early rough usage figures for Webfuse from 2000-2009. The following goes into a bit more detail with the usage of the wf applications. Breakdown by application The following graph (click on it to see bigger version) breaks the usage of wf applications down into the separate applications. In […]
In terms of the thesis, my current focus is on chapter 5. This chapter seeks to describe what we did from 2000 through 2004 and beyond. I’m currently working on the evaluation section, a major component of the evaluation is looking at the usage statistics of Webfuse during this period. It’s slow going and there […]
Last week I was thinking that academics shouldn’t manually create course sites. That arose out of the process of writing up the why/what behind what we did with Webfuse from 1999 through 2004. Today, I’ve been continuing that and looking at the usage statistics from that period. The following focuses on statistics about how often […]
The following is a first draft of the next section of chapter 5 of my thesis. The aim here is to try and illustrate how the combination of the agile and adopted-focused development process of Webfuse, when combined with the design of Webfuse enabled the rapid development of “workarounds” that enabled the system to adapt […]
A blog post on the website of Gilfes Education Group (apparently a “network of independent education experts”) picks up on the Indicators project and its take on academic analytics. The post seems to largely in agreement with what we’re doing and the reasons behind it. The following seeks to pick up on a point made […]
Stephen Downes makes a valid point about my recent question about whether or not academics should manually create websites. I agree with his underlying point that academics should not be forced to use the institutional approach. Given any option I would not suggest such an approach. Incompetent paternalism However, at least within some Australian institutions […]
