Posted in Distance Education, My Work on Nov 20th, 2009 No Comments »
This has been quite an eventful last week. It started with the 16 hour flight to Melbourne and the publication of a short article in the Journal of Distance Education. A Rose by Any Other Name: Still Distance Education – A Response to D.R. Garrison Implications of Online and Blended Learning for the Conceptual Development [...]
Posted in IRRODL, My Work on Nov 9th, 2009 No Comments »
We are pleased to present this very topical issue of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) on openness. Notions of open scholarship, open access publication, open educational resources, tuition-free institutions, and open source software continue to gain popular, research, and commercial interest. Thus, I was very pleased to receive an [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work on Oct 14th, 2009 No Comments »
Glenn Groulx, a student in our Masters of Distance Education programming, has been doing significant work on EduBlogging. He presented at a CIDER session last month (recording here and Powerpoints here) where he outlined a set of metaphors that helps us recognize and appreciate the different types of blogs and motivations of bloggers in educational [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work on Oct 6th, 2009 1 Comment »
Each year, Athabasca University hosts its several hundred part time tutors and undergraduate faculty to a face-to-face conference. The usual format is not unlike standard academic conference with political or academic keynotes from ‘away’ doing keynote speeches, followed by a variety of concurrent sessions. This year the theme was “Celebrating our Own” meaning we were [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work on Oct 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Like many academics around the world we are becoming more interested (and informed) about the opportunities afforded by open access. As “Canada’s Open University” this is a natural fit for us, and thus we are pleased to take the opportunity to participate in the international Open Access Week Oct 19-23 2009.
As our contribution to the [...]
Posted in IRRODL, My Work on Sep 25th, 2009 2 Comments »
I hope that readers will not be overwhelmed with IRRODL postings in this blog, as this is a record year for publication. We will likely have 6 issues, and 10(4) that went “to press” this week is our 4th regional special issue.
This special issue presents 9 peer reviewed research articles- each focusing on distance education [...]
Posted in Distance Education, IRRODL, My Work on Sep 21st, 2009 2 Comments »
At least in North America, and in education domains, in which I am involved, The American Psychological Association calls the shots in terms of formatting and style for most education publications, student papers and thesis work. In addition it is the normal format required for many (most?) educational Journals including the one I edit IRRODL.
Thus, [...]
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, My Work on Aug 19th, 2009 1 Comment »
I was very pleasantly surprised to receive this week the download stats and a check from Athabasca University Press. I edited the second edition of the Theory and Practice of Online learning and it was copy edited and now promoted, sold and distributed by Athabasca University Press. I documented the reason for releasing the book [...]
Posted in Distance Education, My Work, Uncategorized on Jul 14th, 2009 9 Comments »
After reading Wired Chris Anderson’s (2009). Free: The Future of a Radical Price (available but ironically only for free to residents from the world’s richest country, the US, from SCRIBD), I spent some time reflecting on the disruptive effects of ‘free’ on higher education provision and opportunity.
Free has not only effected media consumption, publishing, and [...]
