I have co-authored a paper with a colleague, David Jones which was published at the ASCILITE2014 conference being held in Dunedin New Zealand. The paper was titled Breaking BAD to bridge the reality/rhetoric chasm. The reality/rhetoric chasm is best expressed through the following metaphor, in the words of Professor Mark Brown: E-learning's a bit like... Continue Reading →
The Moodle Activity Viewer (MAV) – Heatmaps of Student Activity
Introduction This blog post introduces an emerging implementation of learning analytics for lecturers that offers a novel approach to the visualisation of learning analytics within the Moodle LMS called the Moodle Activity Viewer (MAV). The motivation for its design was born from the frustration of using the standard analytics reporting functions available in Moodle 2.2... 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 →
Damo's World 