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, 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, 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, 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 [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work on Mar 15th, 2008 5 Comments »
A couple of years ago Tim Buell and I wrote a paper entitled Towards a Pan -Canadian E-Learning Research Agenda.
This literature review was designed to answer two foundational questions:
1. What constitutes a “research agenda, generally;” and
2. What is the current state of the literature surrounding research agendas in e-learning generally, and in Canada, specifically.
We had [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work on Mar 14th, 2008 No Comments »
We are FINALLY recruiting for a director for the about to be launched TELRI . The Institute is designed to fund chairs, postdocs, research assistants and of course major research programs at Athabasca. TELRI has selected three initial research themes:
mobile learning
socially enhanced distance learning
adaptivity and personalization
We have been creating research agendas for each theme in [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work, educational social software on Mar 13th, 2008 1 Comment »
The latest issue of EduCause Review headlines an article Conference Connections: Rewiring the Circuit by George Siemen, Peter Tittenberger and myself. The work is mostly George’s but I was happy to play a supportive role in its production and editing. The article does a good job of overviewing the ‘augmented’ use of network technologies [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work, educational social software on Dec 11th, 2007 No Comments »
With all the buzz about blended learning coming from our campus based colleagues, it got me thinking about the value of “blended learning” in distance and online courses. I realize that there are a number of different ideas and “blends” associated with the term ‘blended learning’, but it seems the common institutional and educational use [...]
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