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Comment on Dealing with complexity – David Jones & the third way for education by DrAlb

DrAlb — Mon, 31 May 2010 10:26:02 +0000

I don’t know of any but I suppose it’s possible there are occasional glimpses of hope. Our compliance regime ramped up in anticipation of the AUQA visit last year. Perhaps it may ease off a little before we start the next run up but the demands for compliance seem to be increasing rather than decreasing just yet.

Peter

Comment on Dealing with complexity – David Jones & the third way for education by David Jones

David Jones — Mon, 31 May 2010 10:19:39 +0000

It’s both reassuring (in terms of shared pain) and sad that both of our recent experience is so similar and at the same time so ill-informed.

I wonder if there’s an Australian university that has escaped this plight?

David.

Comment on SITE 2010 by DrAlb

DrAlb — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 23:23:20 +0000

Thanks, Lawrence. It was good to meet up with some kiwis at SITE. Despite the short distance from OZ to NZ we don’t get that chance as often as we would like.

Comment on SITE 2010 by Lawrence Walker

Lawrence Walker — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:56:00 +0000

As a first time attendee to SITE I can thoroughly recommend it as the friendly conference. Everyone smiled and engaged with me openly (I’m a Kiwi) and Peter I particularly enjoyed our quick conversations. I too gained new insights and have come away with new ideas, confirmed other thoughts and look forward to Nashville next year and the interactions with new found colleagues. Thank you for making my SITE experience so positive. the International focus in your capable hands will develop further.

Comment on Millennials Go to College by Virtual High School Meanderings

Virtual High School Meanderings — Wed, 28 Dec 2005 05:01:11 +0000

These New Students of Our’s

Over the course of this past semester, there have been a number of entries that I have read on other people’s blogs that have got me thinking about who these students are that we serve in our classroom, and more importantly how they learn or how they …

Comment on More new tools online by DrAlb » Blog Archive » Web Collaborator

DrAlb » Blog Archive » Web Collaborator — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 12:30:10 +0000

[...] Web Collaborator is yet another Web 2.0 tool for collaborative editing with versioning. It appears to be free and easy to start up. It offers the ability to import from HTML or Word and to export to Word or PDF, and it has a team discussion facility. [...]

Comment on Scott Wilson again by DrAlb » Blog Archive » Learning outside the LMS

DrAlb » Blog Archive » Learning outside the LMS — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 12:27:02 +0000

[...] Coincidentally, Graham Attwell on The Wales-Wide Web has posted some reflections on a presentation by Scott Wilson questioning why, when we expect students to provide their own word processors and other tools, institutions insist upon providing the LMS. He suggests that it is about institutional control and argues that having students provide their own systems might encourage them to take control of their own learning. [...]

Comment on Learning outside the LMS by Alvaro Gregori, e-learning, formaci�n on-line

Alvaro Gregori, e-learning, formaci�n on-line — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:02:21 +0000

Cuando tus alumnos se escapan del LMS

Los LMS trajeron a la Red un elemento que los administradores y tutores deseaban: control sobre la actividad del alumno. Siempre lo digo, el e-Learning existe desde que existe Internet, siempre hemos aprendido en tutoriales, discutido y preguntado duda…

Comment on Chance encounters by DrAlb » Blog Archive » Digital Myopia - Online education as information pushing

Sun, 06 Nov 2005 21:25:42 +0000

[...] It’s a good read and it echoes some concerns I have had about our own institutional focus on content as the central element of online education. It’s not that I don’t think some content might be useful, or even necessary, if done well, but there is more to online education than content. [...]

Comment on E-Learning 2.0 by DrAlb » Blog Archive » E-learning 2.0 - the text edition

DrAlb » Blog Archive » E-learning 2.0 - the text edition — Sun, 06 Nov 2005 21:24:48 +0000

[...] ELearn Magazine has published a Stephen Downes piece titled E-learning 2.0. I didn’t notice anything particularly new as I flicked through it quickly. My recollection is that pretty much everything thing I saw has been covered in posts by Stephen and others and included in presentations that have been made available as PowerPoint and/or MP3 files. I’ve been tracking some of these ideas since June (see E-Learning 2.0). The benefit of this piece is that all of those ideas are presented in text which is easily searchable and quotable. [...]