by Derek Morrison, 1 June 2011 Hugh Davis and Su White led an interesting and challenging session at an invitation only workshop organised by the UK’s Higher Education Academy as part of their Enhancement Academy initiative. The meeting was hosted by the Learning Societies Lab at the University of Southampton last Thursday (26 May 2011). […]
Archive for the ‘MLE/VLE/Portals’ Category
The personalisation of a learning environment: student-led connections online and offline
June 1st, 2011
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Open University does Moodle 2
April 21st, 2011
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by Derek Morrison, 21 April 2011 Some time ago I posted Open Opportunities, Open Threats? (Auricle, 30 April 2009) in which I opined that, far from breaking out in a fearful sweat or reinforcing the status quo barricades, the transition to an open source MLE/VLE solution could provide an invaluable organisation-wide opportunity to refresh and […]
Clickable music videos – product placement or useful model?
February 8th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 8 February 2009 The headline Pop fans click on to stars’ sing’n’sells was enough to make me wince when reading the Sunday newspapers and the story also offered its own share of reflective shudders about how those clever marketing types are ramping up product placement big time. The story was based around […]
Wiring the NHS – echoes of another?
December 5th, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 5 December 2008 BBC Radio 4 transmitted a programme called Wiring the NHS on 25 October 2007. A second follow-up programme was transmitted on 1 December 2008. While I was listening to the second programme I found myself reflecting on some of the similarities with a much smaller, but yet still major […]
eBooks and the e-learning ‘filling station’ revisited
September 25th, 2008
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by Derek Morrison, 25 September 2008 (addendum added 26 September 2008, Plastic Logic update 19 February 2009) In my November 2004 Auricle post A ‘filling station’ model of e-learning? I posited a ‘filling station’ view of e-learning which was at variance with the then dominant VLE view of the online learning world. I reflected on […]
Whose PLE is it anyway?
June 2nd, 2006
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I assume it’s because I’ve waxed lyrical about related matters in Auricle and various conference presentations that I’ve been asked by the CETIS Personal Learning Environment Experts Group to contribute my ‘position’ on Personal Learning Environments (PLEs). Although I’m wary of accepting the mantle of ‘expert’ – there are none in this area – I […]
E-Learning Frameworks and Tools: Is it too late? – The Director’s Cut
September 15th, 2004
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This article provides a summary of the paper I presented at ALT-C 2004 (15 September 2004). The hyperlinks at the end of the article provide access to an extended version of the paper as well as the slides I used during my presentation. Download article as PDF
