Analysis and Support of MOOCs
My contributions to the Network Learning ‘Hot Seat’ addressing the question, “How do we analyse and support the networked interactions of thousands of people learning together?” View the whole discussion…
My contributions to the Network Learning ‘Hot Seat’ addressing the question, “How do we analyse and support the networked interactions of thousands of people learning together?” View the whole discussion…
My comments to the Networked Learning Conference ‘hot seat’ on the role of educators in MOOCs. Read the full discussion here. # # # At the risk of self-reference, I’d…
It’s been a big week in Greater Sudbury for Maley Drive watchers like me. Back in September, our municipal Council asked staff if it could review certain documentation which had…
Richard Hughes South Cowichan Echo reporter Peter Rusland has sent us this story, originally published in the South Cowichan Echo. Peter tells of an amazing triumph Carole Harry who was…
Hmm… Wireless customers fleeing the company. Profits up. 1,500 jobs cut. And shareholders getting a 10% hike? Looks like this telecom giant isn’t putting its eggs in the “good customer…
Rona Ambrose will lead the Conservatives in Parliament. Yippee! Let the games begin.
It’s already big news that Canada now has a Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Catherine McKenna. But it might be even more newsworthy that McKenna is promising that Canada…
Gee! Who woulda guessed. And what does Dominic Leblanc stand for? Who knows? But this almost certainly will make him the bagman for New Brunswick, the boy who picks up…
It’s one thing to knowingly deceive and confuse the public about the reality of climate change but when you’re also misleading shareholders into how climate change might affect their investments…
…we will pick up the pieces and meet in Parliament to pick our next, er, Guy! (Or, if they’re smart, gal.) Has anyone else noticed that the #CPC are picking…
Canada’s new Minister of Innovation, Science and Development, Navdeep Bains, told reporters on Parliament Hill on Thursday that the federal government is restoring the mandatory long-form census just in time…
A recent editorial in the Collingwood Connection underscores the need to have writers who understand the actual process of government, and not simply comment on politics from an ideological perspective.…
Today, the first full day of the new Trudeau government, is a day that suggests what is to come. The long-from mandatory census, whose importance I discussed in a recent…
The final TPP text threatens Internet freedom and will force Canada to overhaul copyright. Here’s Michael Geist on what we can expect our copyright law to look like. Article by…
Here’s what I wrote about the Census back in 2010: The debate focuses on the long form. Those trying to axe the Census argue these questions are an invasion of…
In process, maybe done, maybe not. I feel a push-pull about doing something in the background. Typically – even as I neglected the practice for a time – it starts…
About the long-form census move that Stephen Harper made, so many years ago – lifted from this web site way back in January 2011: “A disastrously dumb move: the mishandling…
Being at the table during deliberations on war, peace, and the fate of nations was an extraordinary experience. I remember seeing the Berlin Wall fall, and hoping that the age…
tppreleased_720.jpg Final text includes provisions to censor the Internet, rob the public domain, and force Canada to import U.S.-style copyright rules November 5, 2015 – Over a month since a…
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