The following is the first attempt to expand upon an idea that’s been bubbling along for the last few weeks. It arises from a combination of recent experiences, including Working through the institutional processes to get BIM installed on the institutional Moodle. Using BIM in my own teaching and the resulting changes (and maybe something […]
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Over recent weeks I’ve been so busy that I’ve largely ignored Twitter. To my detriment. A quick return to it this afternoon found me following two links via tweets from @palbion. The two links were How effective is the professional development undertaken by teachers?, and Removing the lids of learning. The first is a blog […]
The following is a summary and perhaps some reflection upon Osman and Koh (2013). It’s part of the thinking and reading behind the re-design of the ICTs and pedagogy course I help teach to pre-service teachers. Abstract 65 business (MBA/Egyptian) students participated in collaborative blogging over 5 weeks. Analysis (content analysis for critical thinking and […]
Ensuring the quality of the student learning experience has become an increasingly important task for Australian universities. Experience over the last 10 years and some recent reading suggests there are some limitations to how this is currently being done. New innovations/fashions like learning analytics appear likely to reinforce these limitations, rather than actually make significant […]
The following is inspired by this tweet Tertiary course design 'very poor' bit.ly/SvEbEo by @b_wire in @WaikatoTimes #advertorial (via @eddirections) #yam— Stephen Harlow (@stephenharlow) December 04, 2012 which links to this newspaper article titled “Tertiary course design ‘very poor’”. An article certain to get a rise out of me because it continues the “blame the […]
I’m slowly recovering from a week at conferences. First, ASCILITE’2012 (#ascilite2012) and second the SoLAR Southern Flare Conference (#FlareAus). I was going to spend the week before preparing, but marking and other tasks intervened. This meant I spent much of the week preparing presentations which meant a couple of late nights and limited social collaboration. […]
The following is an excerpt from an unsuccessful 2012 second round OLT grant. We’re currently pondering what the next step is with the idea. A recent presentation at the Southern Solar Flare conference places the following idea in a broader context of learning analytics and how universities are implementing it. Project Rationale The Society for […]
The following resources are for a presentation given at the Southern Solar Flare on the 30th November, 2012. The premise of the talk is that learning analytics shows all the hallmarks of a management fashion, fad, or bandwagon and to avoid this we need to talk more realistically about its implementation. The talk identifies three […]
The following is a collection of presentation resources (i.e. the slides) for an ASCILITE’2012 of this paper. The paper and presentation are a summary of the outcomes my PhD work. The thesis goes into much more detail. Abstract Drawing on the 14-year life and death of an integrated online learning environment used by tens of […]
Becoming somewhat cynical about the headlong rush toward learning analytics I’m commencing an exploration of the problems associated with big data, data science and some of the other areas which form the foundation for learning analytics. The following is an ad hoc collection of some initial resources I’ve found and need to engage with. Feel […]
