Terry Anderson : Weblog

Two new Qualitative analysis books

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:23:28 GMT

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I have often had problems helping students learn to analyze qualitative data such as interviews, meeting transcripts, field notes etc. It seems common understanding is to read and extract the themes- but what does that actually mean and how do you know if you are doing it correctly?
I thus was motivated [...]

Canadian Government Folds on Education (again)

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:22:03 GMT

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I was shocked last week to read a story in Globe and Mail that they were allowing Inukshuk Wireless (a telephone company owned by Rogers and Bell) to discontinue its funding of educational multi-media projects.

By way of background in 2000 the federal government offered bandwidth that was being reserved for educational [...]

Year End Notes

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:52:06 GMT

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I have been neglecting the ‘Canuck’ lately and wanted to take a few minutes on this last day of 2009, to share a few odds and ends that I’ve been meaning to write about.
Earlier this month I had a great time in Second Life doing a guest appearance with Ross McKendrick in a Danish Education [...]

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:07:18 GMT

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Happy Holidays!
For your holiday reading, The International review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) offers a final edition, featuring 6 research articles, one note from the field, a book review, and 5 web conference recordings from the Canadian Institute for Distance Education Research.
This issue marks our tenth year and largest number – 6 [...]

2010 New Horizons Report

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:15:53 GMT

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I’m always interested in learning from the prognosis of the New Media Consortium’s Annual New Horizon Report. The 2010 preview (7th annual report) is out – with still a few weeks to go in 2009!
As usual the report categorizes new educational technologies in three time frames. And the winners are :
Time-to-Adoption Horizon: One Year or [...]

On naming my discipline

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:36:01 GMT

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This has been quite an eventful last week. It started with the 16 hour flight to Melbourne and the publication of a short article in the Journal of Distance Education. A Rose by Any Other Name: Still Distance Education – A Response to D.R. Garrison Implications of Online and Blended Learning for the Conceptual Development [...]

IRRODL 10(5) on Openness and the Future of Higher Education

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:35:58 GMT

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We are pleased to present this very topical issue of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) on openness. Notions of open scholarship, open access publication, open educational resources, tuition-free institutions, and open source software continue to gain popular, research, and commercial interest. Thus, I was very pleased to receive an [...]

Guide to Field Blogging

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:39:23 GMT

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Glenn Groulx, a student in our Masters of Distance Education programming, has been doing significant work on EduBlogging. He presented at a CIDER session last month (recording here and Powerpoints here) where he outlined a set of metaphors that helps us recognize and appreciate the different types of blogs and motivations of bloggers in educational [...]

Keynote at Athabasca’s Learning Services conference

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:22:11 GMT

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Each year, Athabasca University hosts its several hundred part time tutors and undergraduate faculty to a face-to-face conference. The usual format is not unlike standard academic conference with political or academic keynotes from ‘away’ doing keynote speeches, followed by a variety of concurrent sessions. This year the theme was “Celebrating our Own” meaning we were [...]

Open Access Week at Athabasca University – Join us!

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:25:40 GMT

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Like many academics around the world we are becoming more interested (and informed) about the opportunities afforded by open access. As “Canada’s Open University” this is a natural fit for us, and thus we are pleased to take the opportunity to participate in the international Open Access Week Oct 19-23 2009.
As our contribution to the [...]