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The spoken word is crucial to understanding.
The spoken word is crucial to understanding. Fig.1. Meeting face to face to talk about e-learning – sometimes a webinar wont’t do, though more often you have no choice. ‘I don’t know what I mean until...
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Google is making more of us brighter
Nicholas Carr speaking at the 12th Annual Gilder/Forbes Telecosm Conference on May 28, 2008. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Is Google Making Us Stupid? (July/August 2008) Critique of Nicholas Carr’s piece...
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Even a well-designed quasi-experimental study is inferior to a well-designed...
EBSCO Publishing Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In favour of randomized control trials Torgerson and Torgerson (2001) The dominant paradigm in educational research is based on qualitative methodologies...
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Self and Peer Grading on Student Learning – Dr. Daphne Koller
Fig. 1. Slide from Dr Daphne Koller‘s recent TED lecture (Sadler and Goodie, 2006) I just watched Daphne Koller’s TED lecture on the necessity and value of students marking their own work. (for the...
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The Educational Impact of Weekly E-Mailed Fast Facts and Concepts
In this study, the authors assessed the educational impact of weekly Fast Facts and Concepts (FFAC) e-mails on residents’ knowledge of palliative care topics, self-reported preparedness in palliative...
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Would you know a digital scholar if you met one? Are we there yet?
Martin Weller, in ‘The Digital Scholar’ looks forward to the time when there will be such people – a decade hence. I suggested, in a review of his book in Amazon, that ’10 months’ was more likely...
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Traditional Learning vs. the Web
Fig.1. Lewes Castle in the snow Another conception of Open Learning The traditional, institutionalised, top down, dictatorial behaviorist learning of the past. The trees representing the organic,...
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‘If you’re not lost and confused in a MOOC you are probably doing something...
Photo credit: Robin Good ‘MOOCs indicate that we are seeing a complexification of wishes and needs’ – so we need a multispectrum view of what universities do in society. George Siemens, (18:51 25th...
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When I think if learning, I think of the minuscule intricacies of the...
As humans we are eager to understand everything. It seems appropriate to marry neuroscience with astrophysics, like brackets that enclose everything. From a learning point of view then ask as you look...
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I LOVE the way the brain will throw you a googlie. It’s why we’re human.
And then there’s this – 12 grabs of an Activity System looking like Toblerone. One per month, one per hour. This is the point. The thing is a) a grab in time b) unstable c) a construct or model (as...
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