Hot off the press! I just came across the 1,400+ page OPEN ACCESS “2023 Handbook of Open, Distance, and Digital Education” with many of my favorite scholars, including Martin Weller, Terry Anderson, Michael Molenda, Rick West, Patrick Lowenthal, and many, many more! Wowzy! I’m blown away.
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Nardi, Shiano, and Gumbreckt (2004) summarize an ethnographic study of blogging considering motivations, social interactivity, and relationships between blogger and audience. From prior studies on blogging, blog “types” can be roughly categorized into three “types” including personal journals / online diary (the majority), “filters” which provide commentary and information from other websites, knowledge logs. However,…
As I’ve noted previously, pageflakes.net is an awesome example of a widget based start page (widget and feed aggregator on steroids) that has tons of options in an educational setting. Today (thanks to a post by Jane Hart), I just realized that pageflakes also has a tailored start page for students and teachers under a…
Just a quick introductory post for the Connectivism course. My name is Jennifer Maddrell and I live across the river from Manhattan in Hoboken, NJ (USA). View Larger Map I am currently enrolled in a PhD program in Instructional Design & Technology at Old Dominion University. I am taking the program as a distance learner,…
Choi, M. Communities of practice: an alternative learning model for knowledge creation. British Journal of Educational Technology v. 37 no. 1 (January 2006) p. 143-6 The highlighted article (available via this link with an IU network ID and password) discusses the use of "communities of practice" (CoP) as a learning model for corporate training. The…
I’ve resisted commenting on the flurry of posts on social media about the call for relabeling and redefining of professionals in my field as “learning engineers”. Why? Because it’s ridiculous – on so many levels. However, I will address the elephant in the room. From the best I can tell, the loudest call for the…
I took a closer look today at two resources from the Described and Captioned Media Program (DCMP) Key for Access website: The first is The Description Key – recommendations, suggestions, and best practices for “verbal depiction of key visual elements in a television program, video, DVD, or other multimedia presentation” The second is The Captioning…