Virtual Canuck

On the train yesterday, through the beautiful fall colored Swiss countryside, I was delightfully surprised to speed through the small town of Elgg - It is located between Zurich and St Gallen. It seems the kind of town you’d feel comfortable owning a pet Jersey cow but I image you could get by with a [...]

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The presentation at the European Conference on E-Learning ECEL 2007 of Jon Dron and my paper - on Groups, Network and Collectives had some exciting moments. It was scheduled in the first slot of concurrent talks after the opening keynote. I scurried to the lecture theatre, loaded my memory stick of 50 or slides and [...]

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This year’s version of Athabasca’s University Masters in Distance education course “Emerging Technologies in Distance Education” ended with our now traditional online party.
The gala event (beginning on Elluminate) began with a pop quiz from the teacher (me) presenting effusive academic translations of famous Christmas tunes (for example, Are you Experiencing Parallel Auditory input = Do [...]

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From the AU News Room:
Dr. Terry Anderson’s appointment as Canada Research Chair in distance education has been renewed for five years. He was presented with the award at the Convocation ceremony on June 10.

Leslie Chivers, communications director for
MP Brian Jean, presented Dr. Terry Anderson
with the documentation to officially renew his Canada Research Chair [...]

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This is not an April Fools joke, but a true story of near calamity.
Yesterday, I was pedaling my bike along Jasper Avenue, Edmonton’s main downtown street, on my usual commute home from work. I was listening to an album of Bach Organ concertos - the ones with the big rolling bass lines, when I felt [...]

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