A few weeks ago, inspired by @sthcrft, I speculated around the idea of having a eduhack session at ASCILITE’2012. There was some interest and I had other tasks, but now it’s time to think a bit more about it. The following is : an attempt to generate a list of questions to answer/ponder;, a summary […]
Monthly Archives: April 2012
The almost 300 students in the course I’m teaching have their first assignment due on Monday. I’m currently laying the ground work to help the small course team to mark those assignments. Actually I’m busy procrastinating about the task by writing this blog post. Mainly because it is more work than it needs to be […]
More work on bim2, this one starting work on the previously identified tasks. Find out what BIM is here. Status: At this stage, the user screens from bim2 can be considered in alpha. i.e. they basically work, but there will be bugs and some of the underlying “infrastructure” (i.e. backups and restores, gradebook integration etc) […]
I’d like to argue – and yes it is perhaps a case of wishful thinking – that there are reasons to suspect that learning management systems (LMSs) will probably go away. Or at the very least, identify some forces that are pushing that way. The post is mostly in response to Tony Bates post “Why […]
More detail on what BIM is can be found here The following documents initial forays into getting the coordinator view of bim. The aim is to summarise what is or isn’t working in Moodle 2.1 What’s working, what’s not The main aim in this section is to identify what’s working, what’s not and ideas for […]
In case you’re wondering, BIM is a Moodle activity module that helps teaching staff manage individual student blogs. This post is one of a number of posts documenting the development of a version of BIM that will work with Moodle 2.x. More detail on BIM here In the following, I’m continuing work on the marker […]
This article from Inside Higher Ed reports on some initial findings from the Gates Foundation data mining project in the US. The key finding reported in the article is New students are more likely to drop out of online colleges if they take full courseloads than if they enroll part time This article gives me […]
