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 […]
Open Access Week Update
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 […]
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 […]
New Issue of IRRODL- Hits the online str...
We are pleased and proud to present you with a large new issue of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning. This issue contains 16 research articles […]
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 […]
Joseph Priestley – The Man Who Invented
Here is a link to the text of the sermon I did at the Westwood Unitarian Fellowship on April 15 2012. The title comes from the great book by Steve […]
Slides for Change Mooc – May 2012
In these slides I go over two ideas- one old and still growing – one new (for me) and evolving. The first part previews my ‘Interaction Equivalency Theorem” and the second talk about Unbundling the […]
Comments on Promoting and assessing valu...
Earlier this month Jon Dron and I were attending and keynoting at the Networked Learning conference in Maastricht Holland and I had the pleasure of meeting and socializing with Etienne Wenger (of […]
New Edition of IRRODL
I am please to announce issue 13(2) of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Education has been distributed to our over 5,600 email subscribers today. I’ve pasted the table […]