Defending himself against my criticism of his recently released research study on distance and online learning, George Siemens tweets: Au contraire mon frère. There are many non-research articles cites, with…
Article and photo by Stephen Downes This is a summary of Mozilla CEO Mark Surman’s talk at Open Education Global in Banff April 24 (today). It is a paraphrase with…
Drafted in January and just released, the Johns Hopkins statement on academic freedom will no doubt be widely cited.I cite the full text below. This post is a version of…
Patrick Dunleavy offers this list of ten typical questions that might be asked on your PhD oral exam. I always felt I would have aced my oral exam, but I…
Summary of a panel at the Hewlette Grantees’ Conference. Errors are again my own. Pete Forsyth, Wiki Strategies(See also his blog post with resources for this panel at http://wikistrategies.net/oer-wikipedia-getting-started/ )…
This is a summary of a debate including four participants, listed below, at OER2014. Errors and omissions are still my own. What is your mission in OER and what is…
This is a summary of a talk at the Hewlett Grantees’ Meeting, San Francisco, March 25, 2015. Errors (and typos, etc) are my own. Douglas GayetonLexicon of Sustainabilityhttp://lexiconofsustainability.com Our food…
In this paper I would like to address the core design elements in the development of a personal learning architecture being developed in the National Research Council’s Learning and Performance…
Rob KadelThe Untapped Potential for eLearningPearson Research & Innovation Network / University of Colorado Denver– learning to think laterally, or to think divergently (think outside the box) – instead of…
Like pretty much everyone else in the field I’ve been immensely enjoying Tony Bates’s work-in-progress, an online open textbook called Teaching in a Digital Age. Having said that, I think…
The province has just announced that it is appointing David W. Campbell it’s “chief economist”. Campbell discusses the appointment here. Regular readers know I have responded to Campbell frequently in…
There are two types of MOOCs. On the one hand, there is the xMOOC – this is a formal course created in a site like Coursera or EdX. An xMOOC…
Renée Filius: So what I see at course evaluations is that teachers say: ‘Well, when I teach online I tend to ask brief questions. Or students just give brief answers…
Educational Technology Strategies Conference – Toronto Simon Pugh-JonesTeacherWrithlington School, (UK) David CrellinCreative Director for the Mendip Studio SchoolWrithlington School, UK David Participate – was a 3 million pound, 3 year…
Honourable Liz SandalsMinister of EducationOntario Ministry of Education This is a paraphrase summary, not direct quotes (though often quoted words are used). Sorry about spelling mistakes. Not an official transcript,…
Jonathan TepperExecutive Director of Information TechnologyGreenwood College School BYOD – being able to take your personalized device from homee, and use it at work or school Greenwood – small independent…
I’ve covered work by Audrey Watters a dozen times or more now and she’s never had a problem with it – at least, none that ever made it into a…
There’s a standard trope in the government policy arena around the idea of ‘picking winners’. It is based around the argument that government ought not be subsidizing specific companies, because…
The New Brunswick government is looking to cut $400,000,000 to balance the budget. Let’s look at this logically. Cutting Wages Stacy Mowatt In the wage release the other day…so of…
Organizations aren’t thinking about the ‘networked individual’ – the networking choices and patterns of individual Internet users. They’re still focused on their own organizational information systems and traditional institutional networks.…
