About half way through your PhD candidature at UTS, you are required to have your progress assessed….. "This is to ensure that candidates are equipped with the knowledge and research skills to carry out their proposed research program, and have made sufficient progress to make it likely that they will finish in the prescribed time."…
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Knowledge Tree Journal launch
Edition 7 of the online journal – The Knowledge Tree – has been published today – and there’s a live launch on Thursday 3rd November from locations around Australia. Here’s what the editorial says about the latest edition: "The launch of Edition 7 of The Knowledge Tree, the journal of the 2005 Australian Flexible Learning…
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I spent some time the other day with Dr Dan Kaczynski ( a visiting scholar at UTS from Uni of West Florida) exploring the advantages of using Qualitative Data Analysis Software (QDAS) – in particular NVivo. Well – I must say – I’m gobsmacked! I had previously looked at NVivo as a fairly basic system…
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The current edition, August/September, of Innovate (the journal of online education)is focusing on video game technology in educational settings AND the journal has partnered with ULiveandLearn to create Innovate-Live – webcasts that provide you with an opportunity to synchornously interact with the authors from the current edition – or if you miss the live session…
Read MoreTheory versus Practice
I discovered this excerpt from Sir Athur Conan Doyle’s "The Yellow Face" the other day: Holmes: What do you think of my theory? Watson: It’s all surmise. Holmes: But at least it covers all the facts. When new facts come to our knowledge which cannot be covered by it, it will be time enough to…
Read MoreTime to resuscitate this weblog!
Digital Dialogues, my PhD weblog, has been badly neglected over the last few months (or slightly longer)…excuses?? Plenty….too much work, not enough time, running the Learning Technologies weblog for LTUG, distracted by the BlogTalk Downunder conference…well, that should do as far as excuses are concerned…there are more….but…time to move on! It’s time to re-invigorate, resuscitate,…
Read MoreLearning Technologies 2004
As I prepare my paper for Learning Technologies 2004 in Mooloolaba, "Can Technology Enhance Learning?" I have become acutely aware of the number of innovative approaches being employed by practitioners across a wide range of educational institutions and within organisations – but there’s been something nagging in the back of my mind for a while…
Read MoreEthnography? Phenomenology? Phenomenography?
I’m challenged by the current adventure of determining my research perspective – clearly sitting in the qualitative paradigm – I need to refine my view. Ethnographic? Probably – I’m inextricably embedded in the research as lecturer/researcher. Phenomenology? Maybe – even hermeneutics… Phenomenography? Looking good – I can’t ignore this one….”the description of some examined phenomenon.…
Read MoreTeaching vs Learning
As I’m starting to prepare my teaching strategies for next semester (only 2 weeks away now…) I’ve been considering many of the issues that my research into blogging and learning journals have raised for me. Wandering along Chiswick Common I noticed a plaque on one of the terraces – E.M.Forster had lived there for some…
Read MoreDown the line…
So – if blogging is a dymanic communication tool, why do I have so much trouble actually getting around to capturing my thoughts on this page? At the moment, the blogosphere is about being online – if you’re not online, you can’t blog! Well, I guess you can revert to Word documents and then cut…
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