http://terrya.edublogs.org/2009/06/29/epub-versions-of-irrodl-arti
Thanks to our friends and publisher at Athabasca University Press, we have been experimenting with publishing IRRODL articles in epub format. Epub format is supported by the The International Digital Publishing Forum and was designed for reading books on portable and lother electronic readers. The Web-Books site explains that “the EPUB format can be viewed [...]June 30, 2009
June 29, 2009
http://terrya.edublogs.org/2009/06/29/back-to-the-past/
This is a personal note and reflection on my trip to the North Country Fair for the 31st annual solstice celebration and folk festival.Way back in 1979 I was living “back to the land” on a farm near Joussard Alberta, on Lesser Slave Lake - about 400 km north of Edmonton. The previous summer [...]
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June 26, 2009
http://terrya.edublogs.org/2009/06/26/large-new-issue-of-irrodl/
Issue 10(3) of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) was released a couple of hours ago. I take the liberty of reprinting my editorial here, but see below for hotlinked table of contents.This issue is notable as it is the largest single issue ever published by IRRODL! The issue contains [...]
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June 23, 2009
http://terrya.edublogs.org/2009/06/23/23rd-icde-world-congress/
I was very pleased to be invited to do a keynote at International Council for Distance Education (ICDE) in Maastricht Holland this month. ICDE is the largest coordinating and professional development organization for distance education and open learning institutions and communities around the globe. It attracts delegates from the large mega universities as well as [...]Posted by Terry Anderson | 0 comment(s)
June 15, 2009
http://terrya.edublogs.org/2009/06/15/passing-of-a-scholarly-frien
I was saddened to hear this morning of the death from cancer of a good friend, fellow Canadian and colleague, Robin Mason. Robin was an influential and important figure in the development of computer conferencing for educational applications. She worked for many years at the British Open University and there she was the first to [...]Posted by Terry Anderson | 0 comment(s)
June 04, 2009
http://terrya.edublogs.org/2009/06/04/final-report-shaping-our-fut
A year ago George Siemens, Sylvia Currie, Paul Stacey and I organized a two week online conference titled Shaping Our Future: Toward a Pan-Canadian E-leaning Research Agenda. The release of the CCL report last week, reminded me that we had never properly promoted the final report of this conference. Joanne Nielsen produced a report [...]Posted by Terry Anderson | 0 comment(s)
May 25, 2009
http://terrya.edublogs.org/2009/05/25/canadas-lost-e-learning-deca
The title of this posting may be a bit melodramatic, but it accurately reflects the lost of international e-learning leadership by Canada as documented in the release of State of E-learning in Canada 2009 by Canada Council on Learning. I could find nothing I totally disagreed with in this 145 page report and much that [...]Posted by Terry Anderson | 0 comment(s)
May 14, 2009
http://terrya.edublogs.org/2009/05/14/can-the-crowd-learn-to-teach
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 [...]
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May 13, 2009
http://terrya.edublogs.org/2009/05/13/from-teaching-or-tutoring-to
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 by Terry Anderson | 0 comment(s)
May 07, 2009
http://terrya.edublogs.org/2009/05/07/blog-implementation-model-in
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 by Terry Anderson | 0 comment(s)