In one of the worst ed tech articles I’ve read in years, Morris and Parker, attempt to find a link between technology use in a new, home grown social network […]
Does using technology in classrooms make...
Virtual Barn Raising for OERs
The email below resonated with on a number of levels. I spent 15 years in Northern Alberta on a homestead as part of “back to the land ” movement. During […]
Online Distance Education – Towards a Re
Last week my colleague Olaf Zawacki-Richter and I did the closing keynote at the European Distance Education Network Annual meeting in Zagreb Croatia. The conference was great and it was […]
African Council for Distance Education 2...
I was honoured to be invited to do a keynote talk at the 4th conference of ACDE in Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. After sitting up for 2 nights on a […]
3 Bears Story
I had the pleasure of driving from my home in Edmonton through the Rocky Mountains and back en route to the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education in Kamloops BC. […]
Study-Buddy Study
I was delighted to get an alert from Google Scholar that some open publication had cited my work. I didn’t really plan on then spending an hour by reading through […]
MOOCs Unfairly Maligned
The Chronicle of Higher Education continues to amaze me how badly they can cover a story. This morning’s edition contains an article with a jarring headline reading “Passive MOOC Students Don’t […]
Another research article on audio feedba...
I’m a big fan of using audio feedback for marking of papers and proposals with my Education grad students. I use Adobe Acrobat to embed usually short audio comments (maybe […]
Book Review – The Architecture of Produc
This review was published in IRRODL (15(2) and I reprint it here, for greater exposure to a very useful book. Terry The Architecture of Productive Learning Networks (2014), ISBN: 978-0-415-81656-4 […]
Greewich Connect connects with us on a n...
I was pleasantly surprised to see a recent conference paper (reference below) by folks at the University of Greenwich who are reporting their first year results from a project (Greenwich Connect) […]