Archive for March, 2008
Monday, March 31st, 2008
This week's post for the Designing for flexible learning course focuses on the question
Do we need more flexible learning, or is all this choice a bad idea?
I'm inspired by this post about choosing to 'simplify things'.
There was a great video ((TED: Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice, http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/93)) that we ...
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Monday, March 24th, 2008
Week 2 of the Designing for Flexible Learning course asked the question: What is flexible learning? The opportunity to really reflect on this may be quite hard. In some ways, most of what I do is in the realm of flexible learning, trying to harness the multiple ways that ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
A few weeks ago, I decided it would be nice to participate in an online course in online courses, actually an online course in designing for flexible learning. What I didn't bank on, and should have, was the beginning of semester during which period, I barely have time to ...
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
I just had a long rant on my old blog (the Griffith 'official' one). I'm not sure why, but that interface really irks me. I seem to continually get annoyed every time I sit down to write something there.
It got me thinking though about the whole web2.0 thing. ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
In the lecture the other day, I mentioned the idea of convergence. We often talk about technology convergence, about how a single device now has many functions. I haven't looked at phones, but I'm pretty sure you can't just buy a mobile phone. One that is just ...
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