You are traffic
Reading Time: < 1 minutes ‘Can subtitles be turned off? They get in the way of the text on the slides.’ How we think about things, depends on our perspective: what do we think is the priority, what is getting in the way ? There …
Tag: design
Temporal flexibility in the digital university: full-time, part-time, flexitime (Sheail)
Reading Time: 2 minutes Though there are so many things one could mention, I am just going to highlight one aspect that stuck a chord with me. When reading ‘Alan’s’ remarks (Sheail, 2018) about how he envisaged flexible online courses might look, I was …
Towards deconstructive nonalignment: A complexivist view of curriculum, teaching and learning (Gough)
Reading Time: 2 minutes Gough (2013) covers some useful points on complexity, what it is, how we (in education) feel about it, how we deal with it. The paper does however lean towards strawman arguments at times. It concludes suggesting a way between the …
Emotion in Learning Experience Design (Clark)
Reading Time: < 1 minutes I was intrigued by this blog post (opens in a new window) based on the authors reading of works by Norman and Kahneman & Patrick (see below). The authors suggests that there may be an issue as ‘…what is written …
Does it add up?
Reading Time: < 1 minutes There is a belief (I’m calling it that because I don’t think it is backed up by anything) that the test of your ability at maths, is your ability to do mental maths. This still exists and where held, affects …
Design, learning networks and service innovation (Carvalho and Goodyear)
Reading Time: 2 minutes Trying to understand what the authors meant by ‘interface transparency’, led me to reading around this term in publications on UX. My very quick take… It seems that the idea of the only good interface being a transparent interface took …
Designedly ways of knowing (Cross)
Reading Time: < 1 minutes C P Snow’s The Two Cultures (1959) pointed out the issue of having people with knowledge of a range of disciplines (a ‘culture’) unable to understand those from the other ‘culture’, yet needing to work together (it also claimed that …
The Psychopathology of Everyday Things (Norman)
Reading Time: 2 minutes Firstly, this was a joy to read. It gives the impression of someone who is both comfortable and fully engaged with their subject. Though only this first chapter is core reading, I intend to read the whole book during this …
