Posted in Distance Education, My Work on May 25th, 2009 14 Comments »
The title of this posting may be a bit melodramatic, but it accurately reflects the lost of international e-learning leadership by Canada as documented in the release of State of E-learning in Canada 2009 by Canada Council on Learning. I could find nothing I totally disagreed with in this 145 page report and much that [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work, Uncategorized on May 13th, 2009 No Comments »
A couple of months ago I was honored to be asked to give the annual Ernest Boyer lecture at an all -college gathering of Empire State College- State University of New York. I had heard about Empire State for some years, as it was founded in 1971 – about the same time as the Open [...]
Posted in Distance Education, IRRODL on Apr 30th, 2009 2 Comments »
I am very pleased to announce the publication of Vol 10 (2) of the International Review of Research on Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL). This is the Middle East Regional Focus Issue: A Bridge over Troubled Waters.
Full text of all articles in HTML,PDF and MP3 audio is available at www.irrodl.org
The issue was co-edited by two [...]
Posted in Distance Education, educational social software on Apr 28th, 2009 3 Comments »
Following Stephen Downe’s lead, I post below the draft chapter that I was asked to produce for the forthcoming STRIDE handbook for The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). See related handbooks here.
Social Networking in Education
Terry Anderson
Social networking is a term in common use only since 2003. The term has been defined by many and [...]
Posted in Distance Education, educational social software on Apr 20th, 2009 1 Comment »
Last month I did a keynote at MATI in Montreal and later Raymond Cantin phoned me and recorded a podcast where I talk about the main points of that presentation. Raymond did a good job in the interview, and did the whole thing with Open Source tools.
Raymond works for La Vitrine Technologie-Éducation which does an [...]
Posted in Distance Education, Uncategorized, educational social software on Apr 8th, 2009 10 Comments »
I much enjoyed the sessions at the second Canada Moodlemoot last week in my home town of Edmonton. Many of the sessions and all the keynotes (including my own) were distributed (often 60-70 remote participants, over 300 F2F) and recorded using Elluminate. Slides from 34 of the presentations are accessible on Slideshare with the tag [...]
Posted in Distance Education, IRRODL, My Work on Mar 3rd, 2009 4 Comments »
We are pleased to release another fine issue of International Review of Research on Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL). This issue marks our 10th year of publication and I am confident that IRRODL is now the most widely read and cited distance education journal in the world. We present in this issue 8 peer reviewed [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work, PLEs, collective on Feb 9th, 2009 No Comments »
In my recent talks, I’ve been reminding audiences of the green effect and the potential for reducing carbon emissions and energy consumption by choosing distance as opposed to campus based education. Ironically, I’ve often had to fly on a carbon footprint expanding airplane, to get to these conferences, but that is another irony that escapes [...]
Posted in Distance Education on Jan 26th, 2009 2 Comments »
I just received the latest copy of the Review of Educational Research. This very prestigious journal published by the American Educational Research Association, publishes only very detailed (and usually long) reviews and meta-analysis articles. The latest issue has two articles related to social issues in education as well as anther Meta-analysis from Montreal’s Concordia University [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work on Jan 16th, 2009 2 Comments »
I’m writing this mostly for the students in our own Distance Education program at Athabasca University, but it may be of interest to others holding access to a well connected research library.
By way of disclosure, let me state that I love and use Google Scholar on a daily basis. The only thing I don’t like [...]
