Posted in Distance Education, My Work on Jul 10th, 2008 No Comments »
My friend Jennifer Maddrell (of EdTechTalk fame) has completed a systems analysis of Athabasca University. She posted the report to Scribd and it can be downloaded or read, but I think you have to join scribd (which is likely a useful activity in any case). I assume the report was done as coursework in her [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work on Jul 10th, 2008 1 Comment »
I thought I would take a moment to link to the slides and the paper I wrote for this morning’s keynote at the ACDE’s 2nd Congress being held in Lagos and hosted by the National Open University of Nigeria. This talk has forced me out of my comfort zone, as I’ve had to do more [...]
Posted in Distance Education, IRRODL, My Work on Jul 3rd, 2008 1 Comment »
Volume 9, No. 2 of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (www.irrodl.org) is now online.
I like this issue for a number of reasons:
I managed to twist the arm of a colleague, Jon Baggaley, to guest edit the issue, as I am still officially on sabbatical. Jon, with the usual able assistance [...]
Posted in Distance Education on Jun 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
Thanks to a tip from OLDaily, I note that Australia’s Flexible Learning Framework just announced funding for 147 projects values at a total of $5.3 million. This averages $36,000 per project. This is exactly the type of grassroots, action research type projects that we need in Canada. The money per project or overall, given the [...]
Posted in Distance Education, educational social software on Jun 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
I’ve long been a fan of Clayton Christensen’s ‘disruptive innovation” theories outlined in “Innovator’s Dilemma” and the follow up “Innovator’s Solution I think he provides a great deal of sound theoretical and practical reasoning about the process of innovation. Unfortunately, the examples in his books come mostly from industry and especially high tech innovation [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work, educational social software on Jun 1st, 2008 1 Comment »
I am pleased to announce the 2nd edition of the edited text Theory and Practice of Online Learning. As the first edition, this one is available in paper copy ($39.95 Canadian) and in PDF for open access download. This is one of the first 6 books produced by the newly launched Athabasca University Press which [...]
Posted in Distance Education, IRRODL on May 5th, 2008 2 Comments »
I spent a few learning filled days last week at the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education Conference in Banff. This was the first conference of the new organization created from the merger of the Association For Media and Technology in Education and the Canadian Association for Distance Education. I suggested at the final plenary [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work on Mar 31st, 2008 3 Comments »
Two recent encounters with books have left me wondering how long we can afford this medium for knowledge production and distribution.
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Posted in Distance Education on Mar 18th, 2008 1 Comment »
Bud’s Deihl’ posted an interesting (and flattering) post in response to my web conferenced seminar delivered last week to the EduCause NLI via Adobe Connect.
In the post Bud reflects on the advantages and challenges of the back text channel available to the audience in this type of distributed, real time presentation format. Bud wonders if [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work, collective, educational social software on Mar 17th, 2008 6 Comments »
The following is a rather long and scholarly type post arguing for the use of Networks in addition to groups commonly employed in formal campus and distance education. The essay will probably find its way into a published paper or book chapter, but I thought I would post it here in case anyone has interest [...]
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