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…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-07-04

Jul 4, 2011

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adult learning theory, athol kent, augmented reality, basic human right, blackboard, charles boelen, clinical competence, clinical education, competency, competency-based assessment, competency-based education, concept mapping, david taylor, deborah murdoch-eaton, dissemination, ebp, educational technology, evidence based practice, faimer, health educators, innovation, internet access, jack boulet, just in case learning, just in time learning, learning management system, learning theories, lms, mendeley, papert, portfolios, reflection, reflective journaling, research, saahe 2011, saahe2011, safri, social accountability, social media, social networks, social responsibility, united nations, workshop

U.N. Report Declares Internet Access a Human Right | Threat Level | Wired.com http://bit.ly/ivNke2 # #saahe2011 officially over. It was a wonderful conference made possible by the participation of health educators from all over the country # Papert http://bit.ly/mggi6R. Being a revolutionary means seeing far enough ahead to know that there is going to be…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-18

Apr 18, 2011

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audio, blended learning, canvas, critical thinking, daniel suarez, Donald Clark, e-learning, games, gaming, Google, Google Docs, Inside Higher Ed, instructure, kevin kelly, lms, mendeley, michael wesch, mobile learning, net generation, physiopedia, presentation, publication, Purdue University, research, RT, smartphones, social networks, tedxcapetown, twitter, We Can, wesch, wikipedia

@EranEyal Found it hard to follow the links you were trying to make, presentation by video is hard. My comment was harsh, I apologise # #eraneyal throws together haphazard ideas in a rambling, incoherent, disconnected rant. WTF #tedxcapetown # @rachaellowe Is there a difference between “…informed” and “…based”? If so, what do you think it…
Posted to Diigo 09/20/2010

Sep 20, 2010

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lms, ple

PLE vs. LMS – disaggregate power, not people. @ Dave’s Educational Blog – Annotated I see learning as a social activity. I don’t care if you’re engaging with dead white men in a book, it’s still a conversation. (albeit one sided in that case) We don’t learn much alone. We need to keep the focus…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-09-20

Sep 20, 2010

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africa, african education, alpha, android, blended learning, clinical education, cool site, Distance Learning, dropbox, facebook, george siemens, Google, irrodl, learning management system, learning styles, lms, networked learning, oer, Online Research, open data, open research, open teaching, personal learning environment, phd, ple, plenk2010, presentation, research, RT, slideshare, snapp, social networks, south africa, student network visualisation tool, The Chronicle, The Complete Android Guide, thuthuka funding, trailmeme, twitter, visible thinking, wcpt congress

RT @Glinner: The secret. Is the incorrect use of. Puntuation. RT @KrystalSim International Talk Like Christopher Walken Day…brilliant 🙂 # RT @davecormier: #PLENK2010 post http://bit.ly/c6M0Em PLEs – disaggregate power, not people # RT @paullowe: The Cognitive Surplus of a conference revisited – more reflections on #del10 http://ow.ly/2Grlz #altc2010 # RT @NancyWhite: Very cool site about…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-28

Jun 28, 2010

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android, bafana bafana, blind watchmaker, cent, chrome extensions, collaborative keynote, creative commons, daemon, daniel suarez, diaspora, digital cop, digital storytelling, distributed social network, e-portfolios, engaging students, eric mazur, Flora Sandes, formspring.me, Google, Google Docs, google moderator, google scholar, hootsuite, human rights, ICT, Jake Shimabukuro, Knysna, linux, lms, lurkers, medical educaiton, ocr, oer, online learning, Online Learning May Slightly Hurt Student Performance, open knowledge, optical character recognition, p2pu, plagiarism, reading, reflective blogging, reflective tool, richard dawkins, RT, scribd, social networking project looks, social networks, twitter, webicina, wikis, world cup

The SA Fallacy: Open Knowledge Foundation Gets It Wrong | iterating toward openness http://ht.ly/23xnD # Reading “The blind watchmaker”, Dawkins does for evolution what Sagan did for physics # Summary of Eric Mazur’s presentation on using technology to engage students http://ht.ly/23oMz # The darn drop outs and lurkers. Suggestions to address the issue ay P2PU…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-21

Jun 21, 2010

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american internet, Animation, author, backchannel, blooms digital taxonomy, BP, cars writing model, cent, Co-operative, collaborative learning, e-learning, facebook, Fast Company, FIFA, gilly salmon, Google, Google Docs, Google Earth, google search story, Harvard, http, Internet stars, journals, learning management system, lms, meego, mendeley, michael wesch, new media, oer, online world, open educational resources, otter trail, peer review, personal learning environment, player, ple, plearn, presentation, privacy, publication, reading, research, RT, Running stable, sajp, Salford, slideshare, social learning roles, social media, south africa, stephen downes, steve wheeler, swot analysis, tagxedo, twitter, uct, vygotsky poster, wordpress 3.0, world cup, world cup 2010, youtube

RT @dreamingspires: RT @stevesilberman: First time I’ve seen the phrase “the American Internet.” http://bit.ly/anZeIc # RT @barrykayton: Reading Blooms Digital Taxonomy v2.12 on Scribd http://scr.bi/cBGHrj #readcast # From Knowledgable to Knowledge-able: Learning in New Media Environments, by Michael Wesch http://bit.ly/daChh2 # Gilly Salmon’s 5 stage model of e-learning http://bit.ly/c1MKHB # Social Media Explained Visually «…
Posted to Diigo 06/10/2010

Jun 11, 2010

in Learning, Note, Technology

knowledge, learning management system, lms, technology enhanced learning, tel

Mohamed Amine Chatti’s ongoing research on Technology Enhanced Learning: Deficiencies in Current TEL Models The view of knowledge as an object that can be stored and reused makes that what is presented as learning management is simply content management under a new label Information is explicit knowledge that is easily expressed, captured, stored and reused…
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-05-31

May 31, 2010

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assessment, digital heretic, grading, graphic notetaking, Inside Higher Ed, learning, learning mangement system, lms, online presence, personal learning environment, phd research, ple, pptplex, presentations, prezi, Professor, social networking seminar, steve wheeler, twitter

Got feedback from my HoD re. my research productivity for the semester. Too many sideprojects slowing me down http://tinyurl.com/3aflcp2 # @cristinacost I find it confusing. pptPlex for Powerpoint seems to be a good compromise between linear and freeform http://bit.ly/9ltFH8 # @NancyWhite I also find Prezi to be quite complex, although I suppose that, as with…
Posted to Diigo 05/25/2010

May 26, 2010

in Assessment, Note

assessment, grading, informal learning, learning management system, lms, peer assessment, student assessment

1027. No Grading, More Learning « Tomorrow’s Professor Blog Turn over grading to the students in the course “It was spectacular, far exceeding my expectations,” she said. “It would take a lot to get me back to a conventional form of grading ever again.” she found that it inspired students to do more work, and…
Posted to Diigo 05/23/2010

May 24, 2010

in Education, Learning, Note, Students, Teaching

by-product, digital citizens, innovation, interactive presentations, King, learning management systems, lms, new connections, optimal learning environments, social learning

Be More Innovative Today – Make Fresh Insightful Connections « Innovation Leadership Network connecting ideas is the fundamental creative act in innovation Connections is a about the process where the human mind takes the same letters of the alphabet but puts them together in a unique way to create something that far more compelling than…
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.…