I am in the process of reading Biggs (2003). I am going to be blogging my thoughts, ideas, and activities associated with this book as a method of reflection and engagement with the edusphere around constructivism, constructive alignment, and curriculum design. If you are interested, please join me on this journey. 🙂 Initially I planned... Continue Reading →
Google’s terms of service for Picasa just stink!
I am looking for an option for sharing my photos with family and friends. I like the licence agreement afforded by flickr, but sadly I would also like a client interface that provides simple and efficient synchronisation of my photo albums. I want to be able to add my tags, captions, titles, descriptions and photo... Continue Reading →
Definition: Action Research
Having come across this term in the past, I felt it time to get my head around it once and for all. What is action research? I recall in the past, I have described action research as analogous to that of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC). In my case, an example of relating new... Continue Reading →
Definition: Didactics
Came across a new word for my vocabulary: didactics. According to wikipedia, didactics describes theories surrounding learning and teaching in an education context. The article goes on to say that a didactic method is a teaching method that focuses on student engagement and is underpinned by a science based approach. Constructivism is given as an... Continue Reading →
Definition: Blended Learning
So I google Blended Learning and wikipedia, the fountain of all knowledge appears at the top of the list. May as well start there. It would appear that the term "blended" is used in the context of mixing different approaches together when designing. Approaches can range from modes of delivery, to learning styles or even... Continue Reading →
Curriulum Designers – The Eduspeak translators
I am inspired to expand further on a question I have posed in a previous post. I asked the question: Based on the assumption that I am not too much different to the average joe-academic, am I not alone in this perpetual state of confusion and bewilderment around eduspeak? How exposed are academics to this... Continue Reading →
Definition: Cognitive Load
Cognitive load has nothing to do with weights and pulley systems. 🙂 Cognition is the application of one’s mind in acquiring knowledge or understanding of a topic or idea. In a formal education context, cognitive load is the volume of learning that is expected of the student in a particular unit of time. Managing cognitive... Continue Reading →
Do you eat your own dogfood?
We are constantly promoting the use of social networking services to our teaching staff at CQUni as potential learning and teaching tools. The educational technology landscape is abuzz with talk about reflective blogs, collaborative wikis and so on. Of the roughly 139 papers presented at ASCILITE 2008 in Melbourne, 22 (~ 16%) were specifically related... Continue Reading →
Eduspeak – The native tongue of the curriculum designer
I was watching a presentation by a colleague titled The Ps Framework: Mapping the landscape for the PLEs@CQUni project. One of the presenters, Jocene Vallack read aloud a post she had made to her weblog on the topic. The post was in relation to management and control of technology and how PLEs can empower the... Continue Reading →
Learning Designs – making them explicit
While reading through a paper on Cloudworks as presented at ASCILITE 2008 in Melbourne, I came across the following quote: "Traditionally [learning] design has been an implicit process, how do we shift to a process of design that is more explicit and hence shareable?" This is a very interesting observation and a good question. Lets... Continue Reading →
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