My web page with bits and pieces & on-going projects...
discharge
extend cumbria limited
One more project I am working on - extend cumbria limited... Some key words: social networking, hubbing... and youth zone...
free words of wisdom
...Post-Fordist approaches to implementing technological change argue
that if organisational change is not transformative, the benefits
are unlikely to materialise... largely prescriptive strategies can
be too general to address the specifics of individual institutions
and the significant role of organizational culture and sub-culture.
However, as a general reference point post-Fordist approaches to implementing
technological change may also provide some valuable insights and guidelines
that can be modified and adapted for individual institutions and their
specific contexts. The implication is that the successful implementation
of e-learning requires some level of organisational change. The reason
HE institutions are advised to become robustly adaptive and learning
organisations is not to follow a monolithic and prescriptive approach
to the management of process, but rather to follow a process of continuous
evaluation and adaptability. This is at the core of most post-Fordist
approaches to technological change...
From my
paper: A prescriptive study of early trends in implementing e-learning
in the UK Higher Education Sector
expeditions & vienna
I just remembered another
paper I wrote for an international conference in Vienna in 2006.
I thought I'll put the link
here for those who embark on expeditions in Vienna... Some extracts
that may be of interest:
"The accumulated grades disguise the extent of the debate among
staff on what to assess and what the projects represent in terms of
learning. Due to recruitment and marketing pressures, the more visually
appealing and ‘polished’ final projects are prominent
at the graduate showcase..."
online guide undergraduate essays
We developed this online
resource for the purpose of helping our undergraduate students
to become aware of the skills and knowledge needed to write essays.
This
online guide includes info on how to use the Harvard system, how
to reference and compile a bibliography, how to avoid plagiarism,
how to write an abstract, style guidelines, dealing with long documents
in Word, choosing a good essay topic and how to avoid the ten most
common student problems in English. The innovation is the element
of self-testing which the online guide includes.
elearning in art and design
This is my on-going research on e-learning in art and desgin/studio-based disciplines - my doctoral studies at Lancaster University: www.elearningartdesign.org - with a write-up at intute: art & humanities.nicos souleles
moodle: Interactivity in teaching and learning
In terms of Virtual Learning Environments, I have found Moodle to be excellent, while I have found Blackboard to be clumpsy, expensive and in effect an attempt to create a monopoly... This study of Blackboard versus Moodle says it all.
In the meanwhile, one more on-going project is my moodle site on interactivity in teaching and learning. nicos souleles
www.outofthebox.nu
August 2008
How many applications, uses and abuses of boxes... yes, boxes... Letter boxes, treasure boxes, all kinds of boxes. I had the URL for some years now, but only recently decided to do something with it. An ongoing project at: www.outofthebox.nu/boxes - So please send me images, pics or graphics of your most interesting boxes... nicos souleles
pacifica - a cultural voyage
I worked on
this while being an MA student at University of Western Sydney
in the early 1990s. Imagine my surprise to find it online more than
15 years later... a small
taste...s souleles
a prescriptive study...
"The best parts of this
paper are the beginning and the end, as the author analyses the
management theories behind the implementation of e-learning at universities
in Britain. Most institutions are to more or less a degree moving
to what may be called 'post-Fordism', that is, a post-industrial mode
of management style. And this is reflected in - and sometimes caused
by - their rollout of e-learning. The bit in the middle consists of
a survey of 'ten institutions'. The responders appear to be from the
higher echelons, but this isn't certain. And they display a preference
for decisions made at the top (so much so that the author later suggests
that those without an institution wide IT adoption policy are 'lacking
vision'). There's a lot more to get out of this paper; it's one of
ITForum's better reads of recent months." Stephen's
Web but also 'relevant literature' at Sheffield
Hallam... and a spanish
connection... nicos souleles
typehype...
What about typehype
being online after all these years... The HyperTribes exhibition from
1997! ncos souleles
the past, the present and the future
One more blast from the past... a
review (Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology.
By Stephen Wilson. Published by MIT Press, 2002) of a web site we
developed that explored different narrative structures:
"In The Past, the Present and the Future, Nicos Souleles, Dawn
Riley, and Patricia Vogler presented a Web event that plays with the
Web publishing conventions such as frames and linking. It presents
the semblance of an abstract game that builds on the metaphor of time,
and visually intrigues viewers while suggesting that the Web does
not have to look as it does..."
I am trying to put this site back on again... but no promises.
