New report from Oregon State University* shows the results of a study to determine preferences for online course access. Despite the rise in the use of smart phones to access e-learning and the improved responsiveness of e-learning sites on mobile devices it seems that the laptop is the preferred device. Makes sense given that most … Continue reading “Student Device Preferences for Online Courses”
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[su_box title=”Update 01 June 2018″ style=”soft” box_color=”#10b0d8″ title_color=”#0c0b0b” radius=”6″]Since this was published way back in 2011 there have been significant changes in the way that we understand social media and use it. Along with our maturing understanding of social media we have become all too familiar with it’s use for pushing toxic attitudes on everything … Continue reading “What Do You Get When You Fall In Love? : Social Media’s Less Lovely Face”
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Another interesting whiteboard lecture from the RSA on the power of networks:
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“Transmedia”: just another word for the bulging digital media lexicon? Is it replacing ‘multi-channel’ or ‘multi-platform’ or even ‘cross-media’ or that old dinosaur ‘multi-media’? The Wikipedia entry for ‘transmedia storytelling‘ tells us: A transmedia project develops storytelling across multiple forms of media in order to have different “entry points” in the story; entry-points with a … Continue reading “Transmedia: Fear of the Lexicon Goblins”
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Over the past two years praxMatrix has been building a significant number of our client sites on the WordPress core. WordPress, originally a blogging tool, has, over the years, developed into an incredibly flexible core platform from which many sector-specific applications can be built – including e-learning applications. It has a huge and dedicated team … Continue reading “Doing battle with the WP bad guys”
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A new report just published on Australia’s digital future to 2050. A lot of it is ‘predictable’ prediction but there are some points raised that highlight Australia’s future need to shift it’s economic focus from the export of mineral resources to the export of service resources such as education and training and tourism. The full … Continue reading “Australia’s Digital Future”
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On January 24-26, 2012, one hundred distinguished thought leaders from all over the world were invited to come together in Austin to mark the tenth anniversary of the NMC Horizon Project with a very special convocation and retreat. During the retreat they identified a number of ‘mega trends’ that will effect learning and the way we work … Continue reading “2012 Media and Tech Learning Trends”
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Two hour presentation and workshop completed! It was good fun. Fortunately, there’s been great continuity between presenters and my presentation centreing around new approaches to learning and why these have informed the design of the online learning platform we are developing for IAA was able to draw a lot of good research from previous speakers. … Continue reading “Korea IAA Workshop 2”
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The conference/workshop started with a tour of Seoul and an evening drinking the local Saki type fuel called Soju with 3 of the IAA staffers – clear, inoffensive tasting but with the power to finally catch up with you and make new acquaintances seem like very old friends. Good fun. Today Michael McQueen gave his … Continue reading “Korea IAA Workshop”
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I’ll be in Seoul, Korea between the 24th October and the 30th October presenting at the International Award Association’s ‘Asia Pacific Regional Training Workshop’. I’ll be running a two hour workshop on the 27th that will concentrate firstly on what learners, and especially Generation Y learners, expect of the learning experience and what participatory, constructivist … Continue reading “Participatory Learning Workshop, Seoul, Korea 25-29 October,2010”
