Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2009 No Comments »
I was very fortunate to be able to attend what I consider to be one of the best higher education, ed tech conferences in the world, last week in Manchester, UK. I was even more fortunate to be asked to do the closing keynote. The annual Association for Learning Technologies sponsors the Conference (the C) [...]
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, 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 [...]
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 Distance Education, My Work, Uncategorized on May 13th, 2009 No Comments »
A couple of months ago I was honored to be asked to give the annual Ernest Boyer lecture at an all -college gathering of Empire State College- State University of New York. I had heard about Empire State for some years, as it was founded in 1971 – about the same time as the Open [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 21st, 2009 No Comments »
This is the second book in the series Issues in Distance Education from Athabasca University Press. I am the series editor, and wrote the forward to this text, so obviously there is lots of room for conflict of interest (though no pecuniary gain) in this review.
The book is edited and contains an introduction by Athabasca [...]
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 Uncategorized on Nov 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
Larry Ragan, Director of Faculty development at Penn State’s World Campus has put his flip camcorder to good use over the past few months, cornering various ‘experts’, practitioners and generally experienced online teachers. He asked each to describe one core competency for successful online teaching.
He has uploaded about 30 of these 1-3 minute videos to [...]
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, 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 [...]
