Welcome to the new teaching year and a new blog!
Written by: Jonathan Briggs
September 24, 2004 [3182 views]
I have now been blogging for over a year on Reengage.org and today I’m launching this new blog to address directly the teaching, learning and research that I am involved with.
My main teaching is at Kingston University in South West London and this semester I will be teaching Electronic Commerce to final year students. This is the fourth year I’ve run this course and this year I want to use this blog to improve the communication between me and my students and provide them with more information and more links to interesting sites on the web.
In the past I have used Blackboard to support my teaching; a commercial Learning Management System in use by Kingston and many other universities worldwide. This year I’ve decided as an experiment to use a blog instead. I hope that the blogging format will make it easier for students to comment and discuss the issues in my lectures. I’m also interested in making my lectures more widely available and being outside Blackboard makes this easier.
I will also be teaching this year in Kosova. I’ve been involved for over two years in an experimental programme called IPKO Management Programme funded by Swedish foreign aid through the Olaf Palme Foundation. This course is targeted at training young Kosovars in project management and entrepreneurship as a way of encouraging change in this area of the former Yugoslavia. Through this blog I will be making my Kingston course available to Kosova and vice versa.
Through my teaching I am also conducting a number of research projects; exploring blogging in teaching is one of them. Another will be to involve my students and colleagues in helping me research current issues in Electronic Commerce and Mobile Business. I’ll be reporting our findings here and would welcome comment and interaction.
In fact that is the main reason for this blog, if you like it tell me, if you spot something that is wrong, challenge it, if you hate it, let me know.
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On September 29, 2004 at 1:38 PM, Tom wrote:
Great resource, and another addition to the Jonathan Briggs canon! Kingston University, Other Media, Hyperisland, IPKO, reengage and now this... Jonathan Briggs the Movie can't be far off.