Musings – Page 3 – Linking Learning

You won’t (can’t) believe your eyes!

Posted on February 9, 2018 by KayO

In 2018 the term ‘fake news‘ is something we hear every day. Political figures throw it into the conversation everytime they hear something they don’t like, and Facebook and Google fiddle with algorithms to try to convice us that they are working on preventing its spread. What fake news, and its associates, clickbait, astroturfing, alternative […]

New Horizons

Posted on January 5, 2018 by KayO

I am sure many of you were, like me, shocked and surprised when the news came through late last year of the liquidation of the New Media Consortium, the non-profit organisation best known for the publication of the international Horizon Reports, which presented researched projections into the future of technology at K-12 schools, universities, libraries and […]

Virtual Reality – Can we make it so?

Posted on December 13, 2017March 23, 2018 by KayO

Last week I was really fortunate to participate in a VR roadshow which was showcasing the new VR Technology that QUT Library is investigating for their collection. By connecting the computer to the big screen TV, we were all able to see what the participant was viewing, and it meant that we could join in […]

Reflections on a Higher Degree Research Conference

Posted on November 7, 2017November 7, 2017 by KayO

Late last week I was privileged to participate in the QUT HDR conference for 2017. Having been involved in the organising committee for this conference, it was a satisfying culmination to a lot of work and I was very proud to have been a fundamental part of this learning opportunity. In my previous life, I […]

The Symphonic Magic of the PLN

Posted on November 3, 2017 by KayO

Some might say that a symphony orchestra represents a type of magic. Here are a group of (very talented) individuals, each expert players of their own particular instrument. When they play alone, they make beautiful music. However when they join together within a concert hall, led by a conductor, what they create is nothing short […]

Reflections on Openness

Posted on October 18, 2017October 18, 2017 by KayO

I have written a number of times about my learning experiences through Open Networked Learning. ONL is an online course that is run by a consortia of universities mostly based in Sweden and South Africa, which freely offers (mostly) academics the opportunity to learn about openly networked pedagogy, and how it might be effectively embedded into […]

Why education is challenged by Artificial Intelligence

Posted on August 14, 2017July 24, 2019 by KayO

Feature image “Electric Neuron” flickr photo by philosophy_rebel shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) license It’s not what you think. We will not be sending our children to schools staffed completely by robots anytime soon. While AI’s processing capacity may mean that they provide access to unthinkable amounts of data within mere milliseconds, teaching is so […]

The Cathedral and the Bazaar – and the Church Square outside

Posted on July 3, 2017July 4, 2017 by KayO

I’ve been aware of the essay entitled The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond for quite a few years now. I first learned about it when I was researching for an assignment about copyright and creative commons, and I was inspired by its imagery. The essay (which has since been extended to become […]