Report on ACODE meeting
August 17th, 2009I just posted a report about the 50th meeting on the Australasian Council on Open, Distance and E-Learning at http://blogs.murdoch.edu.au/robp/2009/08/17/report-from-acode-50/.
Rob
Emerging Technologies: Background, tools and challenges for Higher Education
July 1st, 2009I was invited to present to the Educational Technology Committee about emerging technologies likely to affect education. Here is the slideset to accompany my 30 minute presentation, Emerging Technologies: background, tools and challenges for Higher Education .
FURTHER READING
- The Horizon Report: Australia-New Zealand 2008 (released December 2008)
- The Horizon Report 2009 (January 2009)
- The Horizon Report K-12 2009 (March 2009)
- Amy Butterworth, “Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World,” . JISC
- “Apprehending the Future: Emerging Technologies, from Science Fiction to Campus Reality (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE,” .
- Luckin et al KS3 and KS4 learners’ use of Web 2.0 technologies in and out of School - Summary
- Xanthe O’Donnell, Great expectations of ICT: How Higher Education institutions are measuring up
LIBRARY WEB2.0 LEARNING PROGRAMME FOR STAFF AND STUDENTS
Web 2.0 Easier, faster, friendlier
The 14 Things that we cover:
Online school implements game-based course.
June 9th, 2009Florida Virtual School is offering students an American history course, based on an educational computer-game scenario
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/index.cfm?i=59030
Worth a look at this site for its informative potential…
New online book on mobile learning
June 4th, 2009Jan Herrington, Anthony Herrington, Jessica Mantei, Ian Olney and Brian Ferry (editors), New technologies, new pedagogies: Mobile learning in higher education, Faculty of Education, University of Wollongong, 2009, 138p. ISBN: 978-1-74128-169-9 (online)
Available: http://ro.uow.edu.au/newtech/
It is fully downloadable from this site either as individual chapters or as the whole book in pdf form.
This online book describes a study, funded by Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC), that involved teachers in the Faculty of Education at the University of Wollongong implementing innovative teaching approaches to support mobile learning. Palm Smartphone and Apple iPod technologies were used by undergraduate and postgraduate students to assist their learning across a range of curriculum areas.
The book outlines authentic activities, assessment strategies, and professional learning approaches that teachers across the higher education sector can easily adapt and implement within their own discipline areas.
Interesting software from EDUCAUSE Conference
May 28th, 2009At the recent EDUCAUSE Conference, I heard about three interesting pieces of software:
Aropä
A peer assessment system.
https://aropa.ec.auckland.ac.nz/pas/pas.php
PeerWise
PeerWise supports the construction, display and organisation of student contributed assessment questions.
http://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/
Crazy Egg
Crazy egg is a tool which analyses where people have clicked on your web page, and displays this as a ‘thermal map’ on top of the page.
http://crazyegg.com/
Group discussion of the Horizon Report during Work Matters session
May 20th, 2009These are the questions for group discussion:
1. What technologies, challenges or factors mentioned in the Horizon Report should we pay most attention to at Murdoch?
2. Are there technologies / challenges or factors mentioned that are not relevant for Murdoch?
3. Three things that we at Murdoch can do to cope with the technologies, challenges or factors mentioned .
Results of Horizon Reports Polls, Work Matters 20 May 2009.
May 20th, 2009Only one vote was allowed per laptop.
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Horizon Reports Poll 1: Technologies that will affect us *this year*
May 12th, 2009Please fill in this poll when asked during the Work Matters session on the Horizon Reports, 20 May 2009
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Horizon Reports Poll 2: Technologies that will affect us in next *two to three* years
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Horizon Reports Poll 3: Technologies that will affect us in next *four to five* years
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