Search results : "tag:eMM"
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Online Educa 2009
I'm lucky enough to be in Berlin for the Online Educa 2009 conference presenting on the eMM work done over the last two years. Berlin is a lovely as usual (cold as expected) but sadly I have no time for tourism this year as I'm literally only here for... |
3/12/2009 |
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One reason I dislike rankings
My dislike of ranking lists of educational institutions has undoubtedly been apparent in other posts I've made and in the design philosophy underpinning the eMM. An example of why I take this position is rather clearly shown in the recent comments on ... |
5/06/2009 |
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What Others are Doing with the eMM
The eMM is still actively being applied down here in Australasia with projects following up on the ITP sector assessments and with ACODE applying the eMM in large Australian institutions. I also just spent last week in Perth presenting on some ideas fo... |
10/05/2009 |
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Domo Arigato
As I mentioned in my last post, last week was spent in Japan as a guest of the National Institute of Multimedia Education (NIME). I was there at their invitation sharing the eMM and looking in detail at whether it could usefully be applied in a Japanes... |
20/11/2008 |
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The eMM World Tour 2008
The second half of 2008 has been a busy time. A combination of work pressures and a lot of behind the scenes work on the eMM has meant I've let this blog lapse badly. At the moment I'm sitting waiting for the last keynote at the SLOAN ALN conference in... |
8/11/2008 |
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iPhone Pricing Comparison
Interesting comparison from Italy, check out the graph at the bottom - Vodafone NZ's ripoff position is evidently an international strategy by the company given their position at the top left quadrant. Nothing like a bit of real competition as the Bri... |
12/07/2008 |
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The eMM in the USA
The eMM's colonisation of the USA is underway and the first stages were reported in the AIR 2008 Forum in Seattle last week. Slides from the presentation prepared by the Penn State World Campus team are available online. I'm looking forward to the mod... |
4/06/2008 |
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UK Benchmarking Project Reports
While I've been otherwise occupied auditing the past week the HEA Benchamrking project phase two reports started to appear on the web, reporting on the outcomes of the ACU/OBHE, Pick & Mix and eMM projects. These are summary reports by the consult... |
6/04/2008 |
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Futher Developing the eMM
During 2005, as part of the work funded by the New Zealand Ministry of Education to update and refine the eMM, a a series of three workshops were run in Australia and the UK. In these workshops participants were able to provide their ideas of what was... |
14/03/2008 |
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Inconsistencies and disconnects
Funny the little coincidences. After posting about DIgital Natives on Saturday I was catching up on some reading and I encountered an article in last April's Communications of the ACM (yes I know, I really behind on my reading...). Inconsistencies and ... |
11/02/2008 |
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eMM Mailing List
In order to promote discussion and a wider participation in the eMM I've established a mailing list for interested folk. This list is intended to be a place for discussions of any type relating to the e-Learning Maturity Model, including suggestions f... |
4/02/2008 |
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eMM Update
Its been a while since I blogged here - what with Christmas and a flurry of activity on the eMM front, I've literally been too busy to even slow down and think. Hopefully a more regular pace of publication will resume now that the year is underway, sta... |
4/02/2008 |
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Fully Adequate
Previously I've discussed the risks of Benchmarking with Numbers and the reasoning behind the eMM's assessment scale of fully adequate, largely adequate, partially adequate and not adequate. However, what exactly is the meaning of a fully adequate asse... |
4/10/2007 |
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eMM Example Materials Updated
Updated example materials showing an assessment of the eMM to a hypothetical institution - The University of the South Pole - are now available. This is a completed Core 2.3 assessment in PDF and Excel formats suitable for training purposes. |
6/09/2007 |
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eMM Version 2.3Excel Workbook Updates
One of the main problems with Excel is that the formulas are somewhat hidden. One of the major bugs in Excel is how it sometimes 'changes' your formulas invisibly when you copy and paste (and yes I do know about using the $ symbol). It turns out that ... |
6/09/2007 |
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Quality vs Innovation
It is widely held that academia is one of the hardest places in the world to motivate change. Universities are claimed to be essential places of innovation and creativity which, in recent times, have been sullied and weakened by a focus on the evils of... |
26/06/2007 |
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eMM Version 2.3 Process Descriptions - Updated Draft With Full Exemplars
One of the reasons I've been a bit quiet over the past few weeks is that I've been updating the eMM Version 2.3 Process Descriptions to include a full set of exemplars. A draft version is now available for downloading. Based on the number of errors I'v... |
17/06/2007 |
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What constitutes evidence for an eMM assessment?
During the recent HEA eMM workshop held at the Open University I was asked "what consitutes evidence for an eMM assessment?" This is a an excellent question that provides the opportunity to explore some key issues of the eMM and its role in facilitatin... |
6/06/2007 |
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Learning from software engineering
At the technical level e-learning is just another example of the complexities that Software Engineers have to deal with. Consideration of the Capability Maturity Model as a tool for improving software development drove the creation of the eMM and so ... |
21/04/2007 |
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Evolution of the eMM
One of the nice things about collaboration is the way different perspectives help you see ways of improving things. The work on the eMM I've been doing with the Sero folk in Scotland has sparked a burst of work on the eMM over the past two months, the... |
23/03/2007 |