My partner and I recently had great pleasure to host an evening of music, thai food and relaxation with special guest Cathy Moore (music blog) who was in Sydney as part of a national speaking tour. Cathy is really in her element with banjo in hand so here’s a taste ….. While she was here [...]
Entries Tagged as 'LMS'
Dumping the drone
December 16th, 2009 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, Debates, Learning & teaching
Tags:cathymoore·course·LMS
Insidious pedagogy
October 7th, 2009 · Comments Off · Debates, Issues, Opinion
Lisa Lane’s paper Insidious pedagogy: how course management systems impact teaching – from First Monday (vol14:10) is a useful point of reflection as we move towards developing a set of principles and criteria for the selection of TELT applications here at UNSW. Her messages in a nutshell are that: no platform/tool is pedagogically neutral, and [...]
Tags:bias·closed·cms·LMS·open·pedagogy·philosophy·walledgarden
Training for Blackboard rollout – and accessible courses
May 28th, 2009 · Comments Off · Connections & collaboration, Learning & teaching, UNFED
Notes from the latest UNFED meeting – May 27 2009 The development of courses for the FEI (Blackboard Learn pilot) in session 2 is well underway and attention turns to the provision of support for the University-wide rollout next year. What support and training will be offered by Blackboard? By Learning & Teaching? Niki Fardouly [...]
Technology Enabled Learning & Teaching at UNSW
May 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · Syndicated Post
Given my role in the TELT project as an eLearning Researcher and Educational Technologist, I should probably preempt this post by saying the opinions and perspectives contained here are my own and do not necessarily reflect those of UNSW, or the individuals in the video. Basically this isn’t a formal media release; they’re just my thoughts and experiences.
This video was posted just this evening on the UNSW eLearning Channel at YouTube and I thought it was worth sharing. This is primarily to establish a point of reference regarding …
Tags:blogs·Digital Culture & the Internet·distributed frameworks·Education·Educational Technology·Educational Technology & eLearning·elearning·LMS·moodle·online learning·telt·UNSW·wikis
Recap of the Sydney Educators Network Meeting
May 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · 111, events, Syndicated Post
In light of the innaugural meeting of the SENG network (formal name STILL being discussed) yesterday, I wanted to take a couple of minutes to reflect on what took place, what was discussed, and throw in a few words on my interpretations and opinions .
We dropped the ball on recording the event
I’m very sorry to [...]
Tags:blogs·change·creative commons·Digital Culture & the Internet·Education·Educational Technology·Educational Technology & eLearning·innovation·LMS·moodle·networks·notes·open source·openness·policy·telt·UNSW·wikis
What’s in a name?
April 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off · L&T IT Portfolio, Resources, TELT news
As we design our new TELT platform and perform the Vista to Blackboard 9 upgrade, it has become apparent that we need to consider a new name for our Learning Management System (LMS) solution. In the past we have used vendor specific terms such as WebCT and Vista (or My eLearning Vista) but given the [...]
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