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Epub versions of IRRODL Articles

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:21:42 GMT

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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 [...]

Back to The Past

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:39:08 GMT

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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 [...]

Large, new Issue of IRRODL

Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:03:08 GMT

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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 [...]

23rd ICDE World Congress

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:06:54 GMT

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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 [...]

Passing of a scholarly friend

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:03:59 GMT

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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 [...]

Final Report: Shaping Our Future: Toward a Pan-Canadian E-leaning Research Agenda.

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:56:31 GMT

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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 [...]

Canada’s Lost e-learning Decade

Mon, 25 May 2009 16:40:19 GMT

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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 [...]

Can the Crowd Teach?

Thu, 14 May 2009 21:58:13 GMT

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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 [...]

From Teaching or Tutoring to Mentoring

Wed, 13 May 2009 18:43:51 GMT

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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 [...]

Blog Implementation Model in Higher education

Thu, 07 May 2009 17:37:53 GMT

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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 [...]