{"id":2387,"date":"2011-06-14T11:11:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T10:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechandtesol.info\/phd\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2014-11-24T14:19:39","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T14:19:39","slug":"usable-and-useful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=2387","title":{"rendered":"usable and useful (?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks,<\/p>\n<p>At the conference, I mentioned a distinction that I thought could be useful to us between <em>usable<\/em> and <em>useful<\/em> knowledge. I said I would pass on the reference. Well, I had come across it in Wikely &amp; Muschamp (2004) and I have since followed up their acknowledgement of Baker (2003).\u00a0 In so doing, however, I have discovered that what I thought the distinction to be is not what was intended. Nor am I sure that Baker\u2019s usage is altogether coherent in its own right. I still think it could be a useful distinction. Ho hum. Bon voyage.<\/p>\n<p>Julian<\/p>\n<p>Baker, E. 2003. From Usable to Useful Assessment Knowledge: A Design Problem. CSE Report 612. Keynote presentation at the 2003 International Congress for School Effectiveness and Improvement, Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Wikely, F. &amp; Muschamp, Y. 2004. Pedagogical implications of working with doctoral students at distance. <em>Distance Education<\/em> 25\/1: 125-142.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi folks, At the conference, I mentioned a distinction that I thought could be useful to us between usable and useful knowledge. I said I would pass on the reference. Well, I had come across it in Wikely &amp; Muschamp (2004) and I have since followed up their acknowledgement of Baker (2003).\u00a0 In so doing, however, I have discovered that [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p865eh-Cv","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6875,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions\/6875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}