Jenni Hayman (a friend and grad student here at Athabasca University) called a few months ago to talk about setting up a Canadian MOOC provider/supplier Wide World Ed. She is […]
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Online 3 Minute Thesis Contest at Athaba...
I’m intrigued by this “speed dating” approach for disseminating and promoting thesis research. A thesis is a LOT of work, and results are usually buried in 150+ page tomes – […]
MOOCs and Distance Education Institution...
A few months ago I was asked to do a short piece for the Commonwealth of Learning on MOOCs. It is posted on their web site, but I thought I would post […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
Interesting network analysis of a c-Mooc
Thanks to Stephen Downes for this link on OLDaily to a short 15 second video from CBlissMath illustrating the connectivity of participants in a c-MOOC. In this case the MOOC was […]
Open Access Publishing
Thanks to our colleagues at University of Leicester, all of the recordings from tthe Follow the Sun 2012 online conference are now available for viewing and for embedding into blogs or web […]
Follow the Sun 2012 Schedule now online
Last year I was asked to do a keynote talk for the FollowtheSun conference that had been founded three years ago by Prof. Gilly Salmon, then at the University of […]