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IMS Report on Learning Technology Satisfaction and Trends

The IMS has issued a new report with the somewhat imposing title, “IMS GLC Learning Technology Satisfaction and Trends, North American Higher Education, 05 February 2007 Update.” You can get it here, but first you’ll have to register with the site (if you haven’t done so already). It’s important to read Section 2 of the [...]

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The problems of benchmarking

In 2004 the United Kingdom e-University failed and was put out of its misery. The analysis of this failure was, and is, extensive and ongoing. Historians will no doubt provided us with a nuanced assessment of the failure that draws on a variety of strands and contributing factors.
I’m not going to be that sophisticated in [...]

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The Sesame Street Syndrome

Michael suggested I might want to comment on issues other than the eMM during this visit to his blog, so today I (Stephen) want to talk about the wider use of technology in the learning environment. A recent article in the Communications of the ACM started me thinking about the issues that face institutions engaging [...]

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Change

In my first post as a visitor to Michael’s blog I quoted Michael Fullan as encapsulating the motivations behind my research. I’m going to repeat that quote again as this post is going to focus on change:
“The answer to large-scale reform is not to try to emulate the characteristics of the minority who are getting [...]

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So what is the eMM anyway?

In my last post I (Stephen) promised to explain in more detail what the e-Learning Maturity Model (eMM) is and how it might be of use. The eMM is an example of a process maturity model and, like all such models, its founded on a basic presumption that success in any complex endeavour is a [...]

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