Tag: lms

Stop thinking of the LMS as an online classroom

Jul 4, 2023

in Learning, Note, Teaching, Technology

classroom, learning management system, lms, online learning, online teaching

I’ve seen so many criticisms of online teaching, where it’s accused of not being as interactive / lively / engaging as a F2F classroom experience. There are many potential reasons for this experience, but the main one, IMO, is that the person using the LMS doesn’t realise that online teaching and learning is SO much…
After they graduate, students will never again use Blackboard (or any other LMS)

Jun 7, 2023

in Education, Note, Technology

blackboard, learning management system, lms

One of the biggest issues I have with asking students to use Blackboard is that they won’t ever use it after they graduate. It seems weird that we would spend 3–4 years getting them proficient with a tool that no-one outside higher education uses. Wouldn’t it make more sense if all the tools we used…
Courses as living structures…

May 19, 2023

in Education, Note

course, curriculum development, learning management system, lms, timetable
Personal learning environments

Sep 12, 2016

in Learning, Technology

connectivism, learning management systems, lms, networked learning, personal learning environments, ple

Dominant design is the idea that, once a design has risen to prominence, all innovation will aim at improving it, rather than competing alternatives, regardless of whether the dominant design is better than the alternatives. The most commonly used example seems to be the QWERTY keyboard layout, which was implemented when typists would type fast enough…
Pitches for The Conversation: Africa

Nov 5, 2015

in Mobile, Technology, Writing

dominant design, higher education, learning management system, lms, techology, the conversation, writing

I’ve been wanting to contribute to The Conversation: Africa for ages and have only recently been able to put together a few pitches for the articles I’d like to write. If you’ve never heard of The Conversation, it’s a wonderful attempt to get academics to write thought-pieces that are more accessible to the general public…
Online learning and the underlying software

Apr 17, 2013

in Learning, Social media, Technology

buddypress, learning management system, lms, online learning, wordpress

I came across this post by Michael Sean Gallagher, Creating elearning: Using plugins in WordPress, which touches on the idea that we should be paying more attention to the tools we use in online spaces. When Michael posted the link above on his blog, and then shared it to Google+, I commented on it. I realised…
HELTASA conference, 2011 – day 2

Dec 1, 2011

in Conference, Education, Learning, Research, Technology

Cape Peninsula University of Technology, case-based learning, cbl, collaborative groupwork, community of inquiry, conceptual threshold crossing, conflict management, control, conversational framework, cput, discourse, disruption, disruptive technology, emotional resilience, epistemology, garrison, gilly salmon, groupwork, hard technology, heltasa, heltasa11, heltasa2011, higher education learning and teaching association of south africa, interpretive boundaries, laurillard, learning events, learning management system, liberalism, lms, nelson mandela metropolitan university, online learning, online presence, Ontology, pbl, piet naude, port elizabeth, postgraduate supervision, power, problem based learning, public good, scientism, small group learning, social presence, soft technology, student wellbeing, teaching presence, transformative change, troublesome encounters, utilitarianism

Explaining, naming and crossing border in Southern African higher education Prof Piet Naude This was one of the most challenging presentations I’ve ever listened to. I didn’t agree with a lot of what Prof Naude said, but he made me question my own beliefs and biases. Ontology: language is the house of reality (language…
Misunderstanding the conversation around teaching with technology

Mar 17, 2010

in Conference, Education, Technology

e-learning, greater online community, heltasa, ICT, learning management system, learning management systems, lms, online space, teaching practice, teaching with technology

I’ve been going through the collection of abstracts from last year’s HELTASA conference, looking for a citation for a poster presentation that I’d like to use for an assignment. This gave me an overview of the event that I didn’t pick up on while I was there, as I tend to focus on individual presentations…
Learning Management Systems

Jul 29, 2009

in Education, Technology

e-learning, learning management system, lms

I’ve been to a few conferences and presentations in the last few months, and there seems to be this idea that e-learning is all about putting your lecture notes and Powerpoint slides into your institution’s Learning Management System (LMS) and then you’re done. Now you can say that you use “e-learning” in your teaching practice.…