Nicos Souleles

My web page with bits and pieces & on-going projects...

elearning in art and design

August 2008

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

August 2008

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

August 2008


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... nicos souleles

a prescriptive study...

August 2008


"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...

August 2008


What about typehype being online after all these years... The HyperTribes exhibition from 1997! nicos souleles

the past, the present and the future

August 2008 nicos souleles


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. nicos souleles