What are we actually doing?!

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

PLEs @CQU project            Reflections of the past six weeks…
Using the Ps Framework (Jones, 2008), I will reflect on my view (limited though it is) of the research project into personal learning environments.
Here are my perspectives of the project so far:
I have been working in pedagogy at universities for a little while now, as [...]

Out of/for control?

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

I happened to be talking to a bloke about Blackboard (as you do around here when you sit out in the Queensland sun at lunchtime with your hot and raw MSG stir-fry). He was a fan of the system. Apparently it only costs the university $55k per annum to run it as the CMS. Now [...]

Student-centred learning?

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

 
 
My understanding of student-centered learning rejoices in a process that starts from the student’s perspective. As that clever ad that is cited in David’s weblog suggests, one’s judgement of a given situation may vary according to perspective. Student-centred learning, as opposed to teacher-centred learning, empowers the learner. The term is possibly an extension of Carl [...]