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Zombies in the Academy 14 Aug 2013 | 06:17 am
Brent alerts us in TALO to a new book called Zombies in the Academy, with a link to an interview with the authors for Inside Higher Ed. My first response was to point to Jim Groom and co's work using ...
AAAOpenConf 1 Aug 2013 | 02:15 pm
We're pulling together another open conference over at La Trobe University, this one looking at activities, assignments and assessment (aaaopenconf). So if you find yourself in our neck of Melbourne, ...
An Ethical Framework for Ubiquitous Learning 29 Jun 2013 | 04:25 am
I've been asked to present the progress on An Ethical Framework for Ubiquitous Learning to the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society. Here's the video recording, with Pia Waugh's...
Teaching and learning through video 11 Jun 2013 | 04:33 pm
Slides for a quick talk where I've been asked to try and challenge the default thinking toward just simply recording a lecture: Teaching and Learning Through Video. I'll record and add the audio as pe...
Incentivise commuting on public transport 24 May 2013 | 05:24 am
Expedition 35 inside Soyuz TMA-07, preparing for undocking from the ISS. (l-r) Thomas Marshburn, Roman Romanenko, Chris Hadfield. NASA Wikimedia Commons Despite usable wireless Internet in suburban t...
MOOC war is it? 15 May 2013 | 12:12 pm
Remember, MOOCs have become a manufactured consent. I'm not at all surprised to hear the accusation that revisionists have been sanitising the Wikipedia article on MOOCs - taking out the references t...
Recommendations to La Trobe Uni in its considerations of open education practices 19 Mar 2013 | 10:07 am
We held a public and open conference on open education last week. One of the sessions at the end of the day was to begin formulating recommendations to La Trobe University. This is a much more complic...
What I've been up to at La Trobe 15 Mar 2013 | 08:23 am
I've been at La Trobe University for 6 months now.. and things seem to be going ok. As usual I've annoyed a few people and now get the silent treatment, but mostly people are excited and raring to go....
Examples of assessment in open education 11 Mar 2013 | 02:39 pm
A few people have pulled together an open conference at La Trobe University, about open education. It is coinciding with Open Education Week. I hope to be able to participate in all the sessions, but ...
MOOCs are a Manufactured Consent 5 Mar 2013 | 08:38 am
I can't take it any more. All this talk about MOOCs (the simple corporate variety), iTunesU, and the glaring and obvious ignorance of robust and sustainable commons-based projects like Wikipedia, Wiki...
