“When scarcities are abolished really interesting things happen in history.” (Nigel Shadbolt) At the recent 2013 Web Science conference one of the most worthwhile sessions was that on “How the Web will revolutionise society”. In particular, it was Nigel Shadbolt’s commentary about the inter-relationship between technology and society, and the implications for society when the […]
“The field of instructional design has developed separately from other theoretical orientations such as research on artificial intelligence, organizational learning and collaborative teaching and learning. Thus, the main problem of instructional design has been its isolation from other fields of teaching, learning and technology.” (Päive Häkkinen 2002). Häkkinen, in my opinion, hits the nail on […]
This week I started my Learning Science and Technology programme at the University of Sydney. It seems that the course has attracted some 25 new starters this year, up from 15 in previous years, and this may well be a sign of the increasing interest not only in the “science of learning”, but in the […]
