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…
Category: Academia
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…
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…
I’ve been info-graphed!
Onder Sit, an educator from overseas, reach out to me to tell me that he had made some comments from me into an infographic. He did a pretty good job, so I thought I would share it here, too.
Presentation to TELedvisors SIG
Here is a presentation about the GCLD that I made the the ASCILITE TELedvisors SIG. The formatting is a bit screwed because I converted it to a Google Slides presentation.
COVIDSAFE and Citizenship
One of the areas related to civics and citizenship education and active citizenship that I am finding particularly interesting is the way that various groups and individuals are reacting to the release of the COVIDSAFE app by the federal government. This app will be used to trace the contacts that people who have tested positive…
The Role of Teachers in Disrupted Times
I normally try to stick to learning design and civics and citizenship on these blogs, with occasional forays into computer games and so on, but I felt compelled to write what about the arguments that I am seeing play out in the media and especially across social media in relation to teachers, schools and the…
So now I’m an online learning expert?
I think I’ve been the victim of an academic drive by shooting over the last couple of weeks. It’s fine, I’ll survive and who knows? Perhaps I’ll even come out of it with the cachet of a gangsta rapper (although I personally doubt it). It began about a month ago, when Dan Worth, who works…