(Since I wrote this post, I have seen a number of academics and historians make this point more clearly and more succinctly than I have below. I suggest you reads their posts – especially Melitta Hogarth’s work on the AARE blog. I’m retaining my posting here merely as a reflection of my own thoughts, as…
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Some reflections on Universal Design for Learning by Meyer, Rose and Gordon (2014).
I’ve been aware of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for a long time – my colleague Greg Alchin has taught me a lot about it over the course of our acquaintance, and I’ve been to a few sessions on it over time, but up until the last couple of years, I haven’t really had the…
Some thoughts on #BlackLivesMatter
I have followed, with some interest, the developing protests in the US and now across the world in relation to black lives matters. I’m certainly not one to speak about the validity of any such protest movement, nor one to explain its causes, motives or methods – there are far more articulate and involved individuals…
Learning Analytics, Artificial Intelligence and Assessment
I’ve been doing a lot of reading recently about the role of artificial intelligence in education for my subject Predict: Current and Future Trends in e-Learning. I approach the notion of AI with a fair amount of skepticism- over 20 years, I am yet to see an educational technology to fully realise its potential, and…
#Hashtags and Social Network Analysis
I’m developing a research interest in social network analysis; specifically, I’m interested in the way that learning takes place on these networks, specifically within social movements, howsoever broadly defined. I think there are some really interesting areas to explore related to what we mean when we discuss learning in these social movements, who is ‘teaching’…
Gamification and Learning?
I’ve been reading a lot about gamification and learning in the last couple of weeks. Some of this will have an influence on Predict: Current and future trends in e-learning in, which is one of the subjects in the new Graduate Certificate in Learning Design. In some ways, I’m sad that I can only focus…
Teachmeets and Learning Design
I’ve been looking at Teachmeets as a bit of a research interest for a couple of weeks now. I think it’s a really quite interesting space, and part of that interest comes from, I think, the different – and perhaps conflicting ways – that teachers are using movements like Teachmeets. Equally, I’m not entirely certain…
Game Review: Pathfinder Kingmaker
I don’t get a lot of time to play computer games these days, what with children, work and everything else that’s going on – so any game that keeps me occupied for more than 70 hours must be pretty special. And Pathfinder:Kingmaker certainly fits that category. It is, in every sense of the word, epic….
Politics 2020: A Flipping of Political Poles
I’m sure I’m hardly the first person to consider this, but I’ve been musing a little bit now about the way that politics seems to have become an entirely more confused affair. I’m mostly speaking about Western countries like Australia and the US, and these are the observations of an interested amateur more than any…
Some thoughts regarding designing a curriculum for learning designers
I think this is a theme that I’ve addressed before, but I think it’s worth revisiting it regularly, as my thinking regarding the development of a learning design curriculum changes. I’m also thinking that it might be worth writing up some of these thoughts in a more formal sense as I continue, as I’m sure…