Akyol and Garrison discuss deep and meaningful e-learning in their paper ” Understanding cognitive presence in an online and blended community of inquiry: Assessing outcomes and processes for deep approaches to learning”. They found that higher “cognitive presence” results in better course results and more student satisfaction. Higher-order learning can be achieved online through anRead… Read more »
Had a call from Channel 7 asking me to talk to the Sunrise team (“Mel” and “Kochi”) at 3pm about the effect Tropical Cyclone Yasi will have on telecommunications and how it will be used to deal with the emergency.WebsitesOne topic is how websites can be used to provide information for people to prepare forRead… Read more »
The Australian Parliament has invited submissions for an Inquiry into the role and potential of the National Broadband Network by 5 February 2011. Here is the second draft of a submission for the enquiry. In the previous draft I addressed two issues: the environmental costs and benefits of the NBN and the role of electronicRead… Read more »
The Australian Parliament has invited submissions for an Inquiry into the role and potential of the National Broadband Network by 5 February 2011. Here is the second draft of a submission for the enquiry. In the previous draft I addressed two issues: the environmental costs and benefits of the NBN and the role of electronicRead… Read more »
Greetings from the Australian National Unviersity where the first of a series of free Education Innovation Workshops is being run by the Educational Development Group, College of Engineering & Computer Science. The first is on Creative Databases by Peter Evans (who is on loan to the ANU from USQ). This went through how to useRead… Read more »
An Economic Analysis of the Financial Records of al-Qa’ida in Iraq” is a fascinating look at the business side of a militant organisation. Financial records of al-Qa’ida for the Anbar province of Iraq were captured. Some of the insights from this were that the militant organisation had a similar structure to the forces opposing themRead… Read more »
Greetings from the last day of of Recent Changes Camp 2011: Canberra at the University of Canberra. The last topic of conversation was were the next event would be and what would be the theme. Suggested was the topic of “research” in New Zealand in mid 2011. One possible area which will be interested isRead… Read more »
Greetings from the last day of of Recent Changes Camp 2011: Canberra at the University of Canberra. Yesterday we discussed “Wikis for Open Education”, including in a podcast. Day three was to be about coming up with proposals “Bruce Declaration on Education”. The idea was to produce a statement of principles on education, which couldRead… Read more »
Greetings from the second day of Recent Changes Camp 2011: Canberra at the University of Canberra. This afternoon’s second session on “Wikis for Open Education” is being podcast by “Talking VTE”.Wikipedia defines Open education as “.. a collective term that refers to educational organisations that seek to eliminate barriers to entry”. The barriers can beRead… Read more »
Greetings from the second day of Recent Changes Camp 2011: Canberra at the University of Canberra. This afternoon’s second session on “Wikis for Open Education” is being podcast by “Talking VTE”.Wikipedia defines Open education as “.. a collective term that refers to educational organisations that seek to eliminate barriers to entry”. The barriers can beRead… Read more »