Two good things in one morning.
1. Personal Learning Environment – A Conceptual Study – e-Learning Blog
“Personal Learning Environment – A Conceptual Study” presented by Martin Ebner et al. at the Special Track on MashUps for Learning (MASHL09) within the ICL 2009 conference. The Paper is here.
2. Insidious pedagogy: How course management systems affect teaching, by Lisa M. Lane, published on First Monday, Volume 14, Number 10 – 5 October 2009.
Abstract
Course management systems, like any other technology, have an inherent purpose implied in their design, and therefore a built–in pedagogy. Although these pedagogies are based on instructivist principles, today’s large CMSs have many features suitable for applying more constructivist pedagogies. Yet few faculty use these features, or even adapt their CMS very much, despite the several customization options. This is because most college instructors do not work or play much on the Web, and thus utilize Web–based systems primarily at their basic level. The defaults of the CMS therefore tend to determine the way Web–novice faculty teach online, encouraging methods based on posting of material and engendering usage that focuses on administrative tasks. A solution to this underutilization of the CMS is to focus on pedagogy for Web–novice faculty and allow a choice of CMS.
