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 [...]
Posted in Distance Education, IRRODL, PLEs on Jan 15th, 2009 8 Comments »
Defining terms like Open and Distance Education has consumed the interest, and resulted in many publications for vocabulary squabblers and some noted educational academics over the years. The rapid evolution of technologies and their adaptation and adoption within the learning and education communities provides opportunities for yet more of this discourse and this post, will [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work on Dec 17th, 2008 3 Comments »
As an instructor in Athabasca University’s Master of Distance Education program, I was involved in providing an e-portfolio option to replace the standard comprehensive exam process for non thesis route students. The old ‘comps’ consisted of the candidate writing yet two more essays on material covered in the porgram and defending the essays with two [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work, educational social software on Dec 14th, 2008 10 Comments »
I have nearly completed this term’s paper and report marking using Adobe Acrobat to add voice comments and annotations. In a word, the results are terrific!!
First, it saved me time. I am not a fast typer and using voice, meant I didn’t even have to spell check!! My comments were much longer than text annotations [...]
Posted in Distance Education, educational social software on Nov 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
What Brian Lamb seems to confuse in this entry about the Open Education Resources, universities and information scarcity argument is that information (or more accurately a surfeit of data) available on the net does not equate to a surplus of quality learning content.
Quality learning content charts a path through complex issues, ideas and problems creating [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work, Uncategorized, educational social software on Nov 15th, 2008 2 Comments »
I’m sitting in the Rio airport one leg down and three to go on my way home from the Canadian-Brazil International Seminar on Distance Education, just concluded in Goianas. The seminar featured presentations and lots of questions from about 200 Brazilian delegates and Canadian DEers Heather Kanuka, Griff Richards, Elizabeth Murphy and myself. I did [...]
Posted in Distance Education, educational social software on Nov 10th, 2008 1 Comment »
This post from Goiânia Brazil where four of us Canadian Distance Education folks are presenting at a Brazilian-Canadian summit on Distance Education. Goiânia is one of those agriculturally based town in Central Brazil with 1.5 million inhabitants that few in North America have ever heard of. But the folks are friendly, the weather tropical, the [...]
Posted in Distance Education, IRRODL, Uncategorized on Oct 26th, 2008 No Comments »
I feel less engaged in shameless self-promotion, with this announcement of the 9.3 issue of the International Review of Research on Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL), as Jon Baggaley was the editor in charge of this fine issue.
The issue features a video as well as text editorial by Jon, neither of which should be [...]
Posted in Distance Education, educational social software on Oct 20th, 2008 12 Comments »
During my presentation to CK08 Stephen Downes challenged me to clarify if his distinctions between groups and networks matched my own. I had a little trouble determining exactly his criteria- as I am sure he has my own, but I did find a long speech he gave in New Zealand in 2006 titled Groups versus [...]
