We’ve been building teaching and learning repositories at Southampton for a number of years now, ever since we were brought into a couple of projects dealing with Learning Objects and decided that there really must be a better way. I’ve written before about the EdShare software we created and how it was more like a […]
Category: E-learning
Chasing EdShare: In Pursuit of a Usable Teaching and Learning Repository
The last five years or so has been an incredible time to be involved in e-learning. We’ve seen the rise and demise of the Digital Native, the flight and delight of students and academics to Web 2.0 systems, and the attempted murder of the VLE (we now know that reports of its death have been […]
Knowledge Ergonomics (That Thing We Do)
For the last few years I’ve been involved in research and development projects where the goal has been to design, build and evaluate useful and useable knowledge and information interfaces. But I’ve always had a problem articulating this as a research challenge. It’s related to Human Computer Interaction (HCI) but isn’t so much concerned with […]
Web Literacy Revisited
How do modern students study, and how good are they at it? That’s the question posed by the emerging topic of digital literacy. Last week I attended the Shock of the Old event in Oxford that addressed this question. The topic of digital literacy is particular interesting to me because for the past year or […]
Does m-learning exist?
I’ve been involved in mobile and pervasive learning research for around six years, but this year was the first time that I’ve attended two of the leading events in the field: IADIS m-learning (held back in April), and m-learn (which I attended last week). I enjoyed both events – not least because of the interesting […]
ICALT 2008 – A Cottage Conference?
Last week I was at IEEE ICALT 2008, held in Santander,Spain. Last year’s conference was a bit of a wakeup call for me, partly because of Mark Eisenstadt’s wonderful keynote, and partly because of the realisation of just how quickly Web trends were making much of the presented work obsolete. This year the community seems […]
Podcasting
Earlier this month I went to Portugal for the IADIS m-learning conference, a smallish conference on e-learning and mobile devices. The conference was really quite interesting, although it had a curiously ex-pat feel to it because of the number of UK delegates. One presentation really got me thinking, it was an account from Malcolm Andrew, […]
Nativism vs. Literacy
I have read a number of pieces recently attacking the notion of the Digital Native – Prensky’s notion that there is a new generation of students who are in some way soaked in technology to the extent that it has changed their behaviour. Stephen Marshall suggests that the concept of the Digital Native is reaching its […]
JISC CETIS Conference 2007
This week I went to the JISC CETIS Conference in Aston as a panelist in the Semantic Structures for e-Learning session. After my bleak interaction with the e-learning community back in ICALT, I was pleasantly surprised to find a really progressive mood. In particular Mark Stiles gave a characteristically candid closing keynote that was uncannily […]