Ed/Tech must-reads 100924

TELedvisors webinar: Changes – what happens when an institution changes the LMS? Thursday 26th September 12 noon AEST

I’ve wanted to look at the big picture questions around the LMS for a while now as I think these kinds of changes are under-researched - and definitely under-reported. (I suspect because institutional leaders don’t like to leave evidence). Michael Sankey and his CDU colleagues published a handy article a few months back about navigating an LMS review process and he has kindly agreed to be part of this event. It will be part mini-presentation, part panel discussion. Also on the panel we have Kate Mitchell (UniMelb) bringing a learning designer/training perspective and a third (currently mystery) guest exploring this topic from another angle again. This should be a good one.

What do we know about institutional change projects? from Kate Mitchell

And to highlight how good this should be, Kate has a small informal survey out now for people who have been involved in (define that as you wish) these kinds of major change projects in their institutions. These include curriculum or subject redesign initiatives, ed tech system upgrades/migrations, implementation of new ed tech ecosystems and ‘digital uplift’ type endeavours. Survey should take 5-10 mins.

Theoretical and empirical models underlying the teaching use of LMS platforms in higher education: a systematic review from the Journal of Computers in Education

While I’m here… This in depth systematic lit review from Mella-Norambuena, Chiappe and Badilla-Quintana (all from Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, Concepción, Chile) takes a deep dive into research around all facets of the LMS from 2013-2023. It covers the objectives of the papers, where/how LMSes are used most productively, preferred theoretical models (it’s TAMS, it’s always TAMS) and other factors influencing use of these platforms. It’s dense but worthwhile.

Explore the voices and resources of ALTC24 from the Association for Learning Technology

I was fortunate enough to attend the ALT conference (virtually) last week - it’s kind of a big deal in the technology enhanced learning and teaching space. Some thought provoking sessions, nice to have the student voice given a keynote panel slot, had a fun time playing tunes on their radio station, some lessons to be learnt about engaging online attendees but a good show all around. This blog post handily collates keynote recordings and various shared presentations

Third Space Symposium - Submissions are still open until Sept 25

We are still accepting submissions for the Slowposium (Nov 15-30) and Symposium (Dec 1) events and it has been quite a treat looking at them as they have been coming in. One of our Slowposium events/sessions/discussions? will invite participants to share their visual interpretation of what the third space looks like. Expecting some wackiness there, alongside more grounded discussions and presentations, of course.