What better way to dust off the old blog than a post about angst. As a long time online learner and now instructor / instructional designer, I see (and feel) a lot of online learning angst … most of it having something to do with MOOCs, a concept I have followed closely and watched evolve […]
I wanted to expand on my video introduction to attempt to clarify a few of my remarks that didn’t exactly hit the mark when I listened back to my on-the-fly video. I said (or tried to say) something along the lines of, “our virtual network has been good at starting conversations about issues, but they
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Oh, my … it has been almost a year since I posted on my blog. I spent a few hours updating my drupal installation (yes … I’m still challenging myself to keep it up … for now) … and fired up my camera phone and created this introduction. Back to school I go …
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I dipped my toe in the PLENK2010 MOOC today with the following discussion post that I wanted to capture here … Dave Cormier wrote in the discussion board for the course … I’m not sure that the technologies are the greatest impediment to making this work. I think it’sa combination of a few things… off
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I just uploaded the final version of my paper (see attached Participant Experiences in an Informal twitter.com Sub-network) accepted for presentation at the AACE E-Learn 2010 Conference. I opted for the Virtual Presentation option, so I won’t be heading to Orlando to be there f2f. I have also attached the narrated PPT slides that are
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I finalized my contract today to work on the instructional evaluation team for the RealWorld – InWorld NASA Engineering Design Challenge. The RW phase involves teams of grade 9 to 12 learners and facilitators working on design solutions to problems associated with the James Webb Space Telescope. In the IW phase, teams of 3 to
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I didn’t know it before now, but dissertating isn’t just a made-up word that I have been tossing around today as I yell to the world that I began collecting data for my dissertation research. I can’t get into a lot of details as the folks I am observing and surveying this semester may stop
We tend to get our undies in a bundle over learner-learner; learner-content; learner-teacher interactions, but this issue of the learner-institution transaction / interaction deserves a lot more attention. Last night at ODU, we had our new student orientation with doctoral students coming into the program this semester (held on Adobe Connect with participants all over
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This summer, the Association for Educational Communication and Technology (AECT) sponsored a Distance Learning Symposium held at the Indiana University campus in Bloomington, IN. While presenters will be turning their papers and presentations into chapters for an upcoming book, for now (how long?) they have posted the symposium papers for open review. I attended and
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I see that a special edition on the CoI is coming out (currently online first) in the Internet and Higher Education. Not sure if those without library access can open the PDFs (I just link to them … I don’t set the access policy). In my initial glance, I still don’t see any studies specifically
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