Learning technology and online learning

EdTech in Universities

Talks Bett 2024, UAE Pavilion · 25 January 2024 · Talk

Hybrid Teaching: Hidden Skills and Knowledge Gaps

Talks Online conference organised by Nottingham University · January 2022 · Talk

Speech Recognition: Art of the Possible

Talks Digifest 2022 · 2022 · Organised

Supporting Teachers to Support Students: Misaligned Incentives

Talks Media&Learning Conference 2022 · 2022 · Talk

Innovations in Reading and Writing

Talks ALT 2021, online conference · 2021 · Talk

No back row, no corridor: Metaphors for online teaching and learning

Writing Metaphor Hacker · 28 June 2020 · Blog post

The piece uses the absence of a back row and corridor to compare the learning opportunities and support deficits of virtual and physical education.

12 Questions About Instructional Videos

Talks Media and Learning Conference · June 2020 · Talk

Moving Events Online Part 1: Challenges: Why are not more events taking place online?

Writing Medium · 19 April 2020 · Blog post

The piece identifies practical and social barriers that prevented more events from moving online during the early pandemic.

Moving Events Online Part 2: Strategies: What can we learn from successful online events?

Writing Medium · 19 April 2020 · Blog post

The piece draws practical strategies for online events from examples of successful event design and delivery.

Moving Events Online Part 3: Platforms: What technologies and solutions are available?

Writing Medium · 19 April 2020 · Blog post

The piece compares technologies and platforms that can support events delivered online.

Moving events online: Platforms, strategies and challenges

Writing Medium · 19 April 2020 · Blog post

The piece summarises the challenges, strategies, and platforms involved in moving events online.

What do we know about effective educational videos: Insights from theory and practice

Talks iSpring webinar · February 2020 · Webinar

What we can learn from user experience design to make learning technology more inclusive

Talks ALT Online Summer Summit 2020 · 2020 · Talk

How YouTube revolutionised learning

Talks Digifest 2019 · 2019 · Talk

The Rise of Video in Higher Education and Corporate Training

Talks Devlearn 2019 · 2019 · Talk

Use of Video in Higher Education: Theory and Practice

Talks 2019 · Organised

Use of Videos in MOOCs

Talks Media&Learning Conference 2019 · 2019 · Talk

What do we mean by 'pedagogy' in 'pedagogy first'

Talks ALT Winter Conference 2019 · 2019 · Talk

Oxford HIVE and Webinars

Talks ALT Conference 2018 · 2018 · Talk

Repaved paths and generative metaphors: Expressing human purposes with technology

Writing Medium · 23 June 2016 · Blog post

The piece argues that technology expresses human purposes and that generative metaphors can reveal alternative ways to design and use it.

Disruption and agency: Inherent freedoms, impatient earthworms and schemas of the ideal society…

Writing Medium · 26 January 2016 · Blog post

The piece examines disruption as a contested concept and connects technological change with human agency and social organisation.

Literacy and Technology, Special Session

Talks IISA 2015 · 2015 · Organised

Choosing an online and social presence for your interest group, project, event or organization

Writing techczech.net · 5 December 2013 · Blog post

The piece explains how groups and projects can combine websites, social networks, video platforms, and mailing lists to maintain an online presence.

Škola internetem: Aneb jak se naučit čemukoli od klávesnice

Writing FitStyl/Puls · c. 2013 · Journalism

The piece surveys online courses and learning resources for people who want to study independently through the internet.

Use Google+ Communities to run Google Hangouts with your tutorial groups in a large online course

Writing techczech.net · 9 December 2012 · Blog post

The piece explains how course participants can use Google Plus Communities, events, and Hangouts to organise small-group video sessions.

MOOC-induced educational blindness: Demotivation and confusion as intrinsic properties of schooling

Writing Researchity · 18 November 2012 · Blog post

This piece argues that confusion, demotivation, weak expert interaction, and attrition are general properties of schooling rather than distinctive failures of MOOCs.

I don't want to be an education entrepreneur and neither should you: Exploring the limits of metaphors in #EdStartUp

Writing Researchity · 16 September 2012 · Blog post

This piece argues that entrepreneurship is a partial metaphor for educational change whose useful funding and collaboration models do not justify importing startup assumptions wholesale.

The Great MOOC Slander? Realities and Narratives of Education and Learning [UPDATED]

Writing Researchity · 15 September 2012 · Blog post

This piece argues that critics judge MOOCs against an idealised account of higher education and should compare evidence about access, learning, assessment, and teaching across both forms.

"Why didn't anyone tell me about this?": What every learning technologist should know about accessible documents

Writing techczech.net · 14 September 2012 · Blog post

The talk explains five practical technologies for making educational documents more accessible to people who find reading difficult.

What every Learning Technologist should know about accessible documents

Talks ALT Conference Manchester · September 2012 · Talk

Introducing myself to #EdStartUp - How can we find sustainable business/funding models for open education? [update]

Writing Researchity · 27 August 2012 · Blog post

This video introduction asks how open courses can fund participation, assessment, and recognition without depending on large institutions or proprietary scarcity.

Massive open education mindspace: MOOC hows and whys

Writing Researchity · 24 August 2012 · Blog post

This note presents a remixable concept map of MOOC types, pedagogies, platforms, roles, openness, scale, assessment, and accreditation.

What's good and what's missing in GoToWebinar and alternative solutions for delivering live online lectures

Writing techczech.net · 22 August 2012 · Blog post

The piece reviews GoToWebinar's strengths and limitations against alternative platforms for live online lectures.

MOOC motivations and magnitudes: Reflections on the MOOC experience vs the MOOC drop out #moocmooc

Writing Researchity · 18 August 2012 · Blog post

This piece argues that MOOC completion rates must be interpreted through scale, participant motivation, investment, and the different consequences of leaving a free course.

How to MOOCify your course and why you should do it: Reasons, skills and tools #moocmooc [update]

Writing Researchity · 17 August 2012 · Blog post

This guide explains why and how to make a course more MOOC-like through open participation, personal learning networks, simple tools, and digital skills.

Zero pedagogy: A hyperbolic case for curation and creation over education in the age of the MOOC (#moocmooc)

Writing Researchity · 15 August 2012 · Blog post

This piece argues that open access, community support, curation, and creation matter more than imposing a unified pedagogy on motivated learners.

Space, The Final Frontier of Online Education or Flipping the School Year #MOOCMOOC

Writing Researchity · 14 August 2012 · Blog post

This video contribution proposes combining online study with concentrated in-person periods by flipping the structure of the school year.

What is and what is not a MOOC: A picture of family resemblance (working undefinition) #moocmooc

Writing Researchity · 14 August 2012 · Blog post

This explainer defines MOOCs through family resemblance by separating required, optional, marginal, and disqualifying features.

Debating the MOOC Backlash: Notes from A Primitive Screwhead

Writing Researchity · 29 July 2012 · Blog post

This piece answers criticisms of MOOCs by comparing them with conventional higher education and emphasising access, openness, peer learning, and institutional change.

An innovator’s dilemmas: On the resistance to technological innovation in education

Writing techczech.net · 19 May 2012 · Blog post

The piece argues that education policy should account for the labour costs and uncertain outcomes of innovation while funding local experimentation within an equitable central safety net.

5 UX Improvements Moodle needs desperately

Writing techczech.net · 12 April 2012 · Blog post

The piece proposes a coordinated redesign of Moodle navigation, dashboards, messaging, calendars, and breadcrumbs around student needs.

5 Moodle 2 features that waste admin time

Writing techczech.net · 10 April 2012 · Blog post

The piece identifies Moodle 2 administration workflows that waste time and argues for a coordinated usability redesign.

10 (now 12) Things I learned at the Moodle Moot 2012

Writing techczech.net · 8 April 2012 · Blog post

The piece reports lessons from MoodleMoot 2012 about platform development, course design, conference formats, online presence, and educational tools.

4 things you thought you knew about screen readers!

Writing techczech.net · 2 April 2012 · Blog post

The talk proposal corrects four common misconceptions about designing web content for screen-reader users.

Five features of Moodle 2 that take up most of our support time

Writing techczech.net · 2 April 2012 · Blog post

The talk proposal identifies five Moodle 2 interface problems that generate support requests and proposes specific remedies.

Helping Moodle users with print disabilities

Talks MoodleMoot · April 2012 · Talk

Putting lectures in their place with cautious optimism

Writing techczech.net · 22 January 2012 · Blog post

The piece argues that lectures remain useful for information and motivation when they support rather than replace active learning.

21st Century Educational Voodoo

Writing Metaphor Hacker · 18 January 2012 · Blog post

The piece argues that calls for a twenty-first-century education system rely on inaccurate histories and predictable economic clichés.

Is BETT good for UK education? Towards a more open alternative! #BETT2012 #C84C

Writing techczech.net · 15 January 2012 · Blog post

The piece argues that education technology events and public funding should give open-source software, Creative Commons resources, and teacher-led innovation a central role.

Towards a system of uncredentials for uneducation

Writing Researchity · 28 April 2011 · Blog post

This piece proposes a web-of-trust credential system that could certify portfolios and practical competence outside conventional universities.

Integrating Learning Technology Support into Moodle #mootuk11

Writing techczech.net · 20 April 2011 · Blog post

The piece presents slides on using cloud-based tools to support Moodle users in a fully online learning environment.

#mootuk11 session proposal: Integrating Learning Technology Support into Moodle

Writing techczech.net · 9 March 2011 · Blog post

The talk proposal describes a portfolio of tools and workflows for supporting Moodle users in fully online courses.

The most ridiculous metaphor of education courtesy of an economics professor

Writing Metaphor Hacker · 20 February 2011 · Blog post

The piece argues that comparing schools with competing restaurants conceals the costs and complexities of educational markets.

links for 2010-12-12

Writing techczech.net · 13 December 2010 · Blog post

The digest links to a collection of educational audiobooks, podcasts, videos, and downloads.

links for 2010-09-07

Writing techczech.net · 8 September 2010 · Blog post

The digest links to a social network for educators' professional learning and collaboration.

links for 2010-08-23

Writing techczech.net · 24 August 2010 · Blog post

The digest links to an open educational resource repository and an interactive digital textbook platform.

links for 2010-07-21

Writing techczech.net · 22 July 2010 · Blog post

The digest links to a location-based mobile game with potential learning uses.

links for 2010-07-20

Writing techczech.net · 21 July 2010 · Blog post

The digest links to a collaborative online test-preparation service.

links for 2010-07-19

Writing techczech.net · 20 July 2010 · Blog post

The digest collects mobile portfolio tools, competency-management systems, and e-portfolio interoperability resources.

links for 2010-07-18

Writing techczech.net · 19 July 2010 · Blog post

The digest links to a collection of free courses, lectures, videos, and audio materials.

Report on Mahara Con UK 2010 (#maharauk10) in 36 Tweets

Writing techczech.net · 19 July 2010 · Blog post

The piece reports on Mahara UK 2010 through contemporaneous tweets about e-portfolio practice, implementation barriers, and forthcoming platform features.

links for 2010-07-17

Writing techczech.net · 18 July 2010 · Blog post

The digest collects Mahara, e-portfolio, education, and conference resources associated with Mahara UK 2010.

BETT2010: What the teachers can do and did

Writing techczech.net · 17 January 2010 · Blog post

The piece presents a teacher's account of using inexpensive technologies to solve educational problems.

Starting the inhouse eGuides training process with a crash course in technobabble

Writing techczech.net · 10 December 2009 · Blog post

The piece recommends a slideshow that introduces key Web 2.0 terminology for an in-house training programme.

Education is to learning like ... (Towards the Becker attractor)

Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 4 October 2009 · Essay

The piece argues that educational technologies can reinforce existing teaching practices instead of changing the relationship between education and learning.

MoodleMoot Lessons Learned

Writing techczech.net · 9 April 2009 · Blog post

The piece records lessons from MoodleMoot UK 2009 about Moodle, open-source learning tools, and networked conference participation.

A Mindset, Not A Skillset

Writing techczech.net · 1 April 2009 · Blog post

The piece uses a shared image to present technological competence as a mindset rather than a fixed set of skills.

Software vs. Users

Writing techczech.net · 1 April 2009 · Blog post

The piece argues that learning technologists should prioritise listening to users because simple software often supports unanticipated uses better than feature-heavy systems.

Thinking, Talking and Writing Computer Programmes about Personalisation at City College Norwich

Dominik Lukeš

Research City College Norwich · 2009 · Report

Getting new technologies used

Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 29 March 2008 · Essay

The piece argues that technology adoption depends on user motivation as well as on software usability.

Personalisation by the back door

Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 18 March 2008 · Essay

The piece presents portable e-portfolios as a way to personalise qualifications without requiring identical educational routes.

How critical should we be of Web2.0?

Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 12 March 2008 · Essay

The piece asks how educational discussion of Web 2.0 can balance enthusiasm for new tools with critical evaluation of their effects.

Institutional skills bank: Something to consider

Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 12 March 2008 · Essay

The note argues that educational technology depends on institutional skills, user skills, and a culture that supports innovation.

Can social systems do the same for classroom time that teaching machines never

Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 28 February 2008 · Essay

The piece considers whether student participation in course design can improve learning while reducing demands on classroom time.

Gluing it all together

Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 20 February 2008 · Essay

The piece compares educational technology development with evolutionary change and argues that useful systems emerge through successive adaptations.

Institutional courage for personalised learning?

Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 15 February 2008 · Essay

The piece describes a college project that uses social-networking tools to connect students, tutors, and workplace mentors.

PBL on YouTube

Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 15 February 2008 · Essay

The note presents a school video as an example of project-based learning that gives students more control over their learning.

"It's called MySpace for a reason": Formal and nonformal education in contact/flict

Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 8 February 2008 · Essay

The piece examines the tension between students' private social networks and the non-formal learning that occurs within them.

First look: Personalization and self-advocacy on Facebook, MySpace and Bebo

Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 28 January 2008 · Essay

The note considers how social-network tools can support personalised online participation and student self-advocacy.

Personalised learning and its kindred spirits

Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 25 January 2008 · Essay

The piece relates personalised learning to problem-based learning, portfolio assessment, distance learning, and other educational traditions.

Personalised learning and centralised outcomes

Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 21 January 2008 · Essay

The note examines how personalised learning can accommodate individual needs while retaining shared outcomes and assessments.

'First impressions: Advocacy, student self-advocacy, special needs and personalised

Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 18 January 2008 · Essay

The note distinguishes advocacy from self-advocacy and considers self-advocacy as a requirement of personalised learning.

Where is the research on personalized learning?

Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 18 January 2008 · Essay

The piece argues that personalised-learning literature contains more conceptual advocacy than evidence about implementation.

Leading computer pundit attacks educational establishment and inadvertently

Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 16 January 2008 · Essay

The piece responds to John Dvorak's criticism of schools by arguing that computer education requires a broader account of educational purposes.

s/z: British/American approaches to personali(s/z)ed learning

Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 12 January 2008 · Essay

The piece uses the spelling difference between British and American English to introduce competing meanings of personalised learning.

Leading Personalisation

Dominik Lukeš, Fintan Donohue and Peter Mayhew-Smith

Research Centre for Excellence in Leadership · 2008 · Report

Building Language Learning Communities Online

Dominik Lukeš

Research Barcamp Brussels, Brussels · 2006 · Paper

Internet a vzdělávání: Více než možnost

Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2001 · Journalism

The piece shows schools how to use the internet as an information source, a meeting place, and a medium for teaching rather than as a symbolic acquisition.

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Instructional Videos Framework

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