Posted in My Work, Uncategorized, educational social software on Aug 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Jon Dron and I have received funding to enhance social networking amongst the distributed students and staff at Athabasca University. This is a two year position and requires programming skills and communications abilities to help create and sustain AU’s system and contribute to the elgg community.
For more details check Athabasca Human resources listing
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Posted in Distance Education, Uncategorized, educational social software on Jul 7th, 2009 No Comments »
I had the pleasure of attending a recent meeting (and dinner) of the advisory board for the ReVica project and wanted to share some of the work and results of that project. I’ll skip over the obvious fact, that the project could have spent a little more time creating a more inviting acronym and get [...]
Posted in educational social software on May 14th, 2009 5 Comments »
About a year ago Jon Dron and I completed a chapter for the 2009 Handbook of Research on Social Software and Developing Community Ontologies edited by Stylianos Hatzipanagos, & Steven Warburton of King’s College London, UK.
Unfortunately the publishers, IGI choose to charge what I think is an exorbitant fee of $265 [...]
Posted in My Work, PLEs, educational social software on May 7th, 2009 3 Comments »
I was pleased to read a recent article that creates a framework for use and adoption of blogs in higher education.The article is Kerawalla, L., Minocha, S., Kirkup, G., & Conole, G. (2009). An empirically grounded framework to guide blogging in higher education. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 25(1). I normally wouldn’t link to or [...]
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 Blogroll, educational social software on Feb 28th, 2009 12 Comments »
I’ve been familiar with Wenger’s ideas of Community of Practice (CoP) for a decade and find the concept relevant, interesting and of practical value when I think about ways in which groups (workplace, graduate courses I teach, close colleagues with similar interests, community groups, work teams and task forces) function. However, I have long [...]
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 [...]
