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Playing the Game, Publishing or Perishing in Higher Education
Academic publishing licensed CC by Gideon Burton I recently read an article by David Colquhoun in the Guardian titled Publish-or-perish: Peer review and the corruption of science. It’s well worth...
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Why I don’t like institutional e-portfolios
License CC BY-NC-SA Some rights reserved by Clint Hamada There was a reasonable amount of discussion at the #pleconf last week on the role of e-portfolios in personal learning environments and who...
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Questions about the future of higher education
The Conversation web site is currently half way through a series of invited posts entitled “The Future of Higher Education”. It has been a disappointing series so far in that five of the first six...
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MOOC FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt)
Windmills in La Mancha for some reason. This is licensed CC BY-NC 2.0 by lapidim http://bit.ly/Y6teyP In what can only be described as a rant, six community colleges members have taken to Inside...
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On Being Unhelpful
MOOC – licensed CC BY-SA 2.0 by cogdogblog My two previous posts have considered the role of venture capitalists in higher education and my disagreements with a fiercely critical anti-mooc article by...
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The penny drops with open badges
www.openbadges.org I’ve been familiar with the basic concepts around the use of open badges for a while now but I have to admit that they hadn’t really grabbed my attention front and centre until,...
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Because academic freedom does not include the freedom to create a poor...
Academic freedom Dear Faculty Member or Academic (whichever you would prefer), I was delighted to see your response to Joshua Kim’s post on experiences working with Learning Designers which he...
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On interactions and scalability in online learning
Expert CC by Pete Prodoehl I’m not attending ASCILITE 2013 but I am following the Twitter stream closely and occasionally comment into the stream. This can be dangerous because sometimes the tweets...
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Higher education technology predictions for 2014
TL;DR Wizard by seanmgrath In summary, we’ll have another contentious year. We’ll see big growth in higher education services from outside of the university sector, a continued gnashing of teeth from...
View ArticleWe need more investment in mainstreaming innovations, not generating new ones
There’s an article on EdSurge today (Here’s a $5M Seed Fund to Support Higher-Ed Innovations Besides MOOCs) that talks about a new fund to promote innovation in highered. I know $5M isn’t a huge amount...
View Article20 years in e-learning
In June of this year it was twenty years since I set up my first web server for delivering e-learning courses. I’m using this anniversary to reflect on my experiences in educational technology over the...
View ArticleUdemy thinks they’ve “cracked online education” they haven’t. But…
Last week, on the Time web site, Udemy CO Dennis Yang claims to have “cracked online education”. They haven’t of course and this is exactly the sort of glib claim guaranteed to to annoy those that have...
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