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Driving Home from Madison

Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:27:08 GMT

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While winding our way home (2800 kms) from the Madison Distance Learning and Teaching Conference and our annual holiday at Sue’s Father’s cabin in Blind River Ontario, we had a few adventures, that I wanted to share in the following post.
We left Madison Wisc. enroute to Sioux Falls, South Dakota and began to notice an [...]

Slides from Open Access Publishing Seminar

Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:04:58 GMT

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I’m attending the 26th annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning here in Madison. This is my 3rd time at this conference and it is a large, mostly practionaire orientated conference on e-learning. I’m looking forward to Etienne Wenger’s keynote tomorrow and have marked most of the soical media sessions to attend.
This morning’s keynote by [...]

ReThinking Disclosure and Surveillance

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 07:14:28 GMT

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Like many educators with a social media agenda, I’m concerned with fear mongering, accusations and sometimes deleterious effects of snooping, stalking and Big Brother invasion of private spaces. The arguments against and the fear of participation in even semi-private networks, such as the ELGG environment we are building at Athabasca University, are real and palatable [...]

The Power of Pull

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 22:12:51 GMT

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John Hagel and John Seely Brown have come out with yet another in their blockbuster best seller series on innovation, that I found quite enlightening. The book (with 3rd author Lang Davison) is titled The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion. The text is one of this here is [...]

Social Networks and Learning – Doctoral Seminar

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 09:49:25 GMT

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There is nothing like having a plane breakdown and being stuck in an airport to get one’s mind back to a neglected blog!.. I am on my way to Singapore for ICT 2010 and wanted to take the time post on last week’s Doctoral Research Seminar at Athabasca University.
The Social Networks and Learning doctoral seminar was a [...]

Issue 11(2) of IRRODL Published

Sun, 30 May 2010 22:13:10 GMT

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Table of Contents
Editorial
Editorial HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
Terry Anderson i-iii
Research Articles
Cultural dimensions of learning: Addressing the challenges of multicultural instruction HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
Patrick Parrish, Jennifer Linder-VanBerschot 1-19
Unbundling faculty roles in online distance education programs HTML PDF MP3 EPUB
Jan Tucker, Patricia Neely 20-32
Process-based assessment for professional learning in higher education: Perspectives on the student-teacher [...]

Doctoral Seminar on Social Networking

Thu, 27 May 2010 16:18:45 GMT

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George Siemens and I are putting the final touches on a doctoral and faculty seminar that TEKRI (at Athabasca University) is sponsoring here in Edmonton at the end of June. The seminar features presentations by Athabasca faculty – including George, Kinshuk, Jon Dron, Dragan Gasevic, myself and special guests Allison Littlejohn Stephen Downes and others. The [...]

Leadership Envy

Tue, 04 May 2010 21:34:32 GMT

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I just returned from 10 great days in New Zealand, knocking off a couple of keynotes (Distance Education Assoc of New Zealand and Moodlemoot) and two very fine visits and talks at Massey and Otago universites). Like most visitors I was impressed by the scenery, hospitality, friendliness and strange pronunciations (I couldn’t get used to [...]

Keynotes and Brain Failure

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:13:17 GMT

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I’m sitting at the Wellington Airport 3/4 through the visit and 4 keynote speeches on a whirlwind trip to New Zealand. In the lounge copy of Australia’s New Scientist magazine (Vol 206 no 2757) I am reading a fascinating article about brain activity when engaged in prayer. Now first I should say that I don’t [...]

Ongoing Saga of an Open Access Book

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 13:53:36 GMT

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Readers of this blog will remember that I published the results from the first year of sales and downloads of the book I edited, the Theory and Practice of Online Learning, 2nd Edition published by Athabasca University Press. In summary during the first year, AU Press sold 404 copies and supported the delivery of 2,457 [...]