This is my first blog post from my 2 month position as a visiting professor at the open University of Catalonia (UOC). UOC is a 100% distance University (like Athabasca […]
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A Publishing Primer for Education Grad s...
Ask any academic, and they will get into a long discourse about the value of publishing scholarly work, the politics of doing it, the challenges and the outlets. Although you […]
MOOCs as community??
Here at Athabasca University we’ve finally begun serious talk about our approach to MOOCs. We are working through two models, trying to decipher the pros and cons of each or both. […]
Business Models for Online Education
The latest issue of the Online Journal of Distance Education Research has an article that tries to define a “3rd” university model. Rubin, B. (2013). University Business Models and Online Practices: A Third Way. […]
Buddhism and Thailand
This month, I enrolled in a 4 week course on Buddhism led by a member of our Unitarian Congregation here in Edmonton. I’ve always been interested in Eastern religions and […]
"Connectivying" your course
The article that Jon Dron and I published in IRRODL Anderson, T., & Dron, J. (2011). Three generations of distance education pedagogy. International Review of Research on Distance and Open […]
MOOC pedagogy and accreditation
Most of the cacophony of comments and posts about MOOCs and their disruptive potential has focused on their free cost to students, high enrolments, superstar teachers and high prestige Universities. […]
Open Access Week Update
This year, Athabasca University will again be celebrating Open Access Week, with a series of free and ‘open’ noon hour (MDT) web casts. The theme for the 2012 Open Access Week is […]
on edited book chapters
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve had occasion to think about authoring and editing contributions to edited books. In this post, I’ll releate these incidents and then try to […]
OpenAccess Week at Athabasca
Next month Athabasca will (for the fourth year) be participating once again in Open Access week. The screen shot below http://openaccess.athabascau.ca details the events during the week. Every noon hour (Mountain Daylight […]