Browsing Dr. Jon Dron by Title

Designing the Undesignable: Social Software and Control

Dron, Jon (2008-02-28)

In this presentation, Dr. Jon Dron will discuss his recently published article, “Designing the undesignable: Social Software and Control”. In this article, Dr Dron states that social software, such as blogs, wikis, tagging ...

Fun and Fear in Open Spaces

Anderson, Terry; Dron, Jon (2011-10-27)

This presentation presents the theory and practice of Open Learning as implemented in Athabasca University’s Beyond the LMS social networking system. The presentation discusses the motivation , design and challenges ...

Learning technology through three generations of technology enhanced distance education pedagogy

Anderson, Terry; Dron, Jon (European Open and Distance Learning Journal, 2012)

This paper updates earlier work in which we defined three generations of distance education pedagogy. We then describe emerging technologies that are most conducive to instructional designs that evolve with each generation. ...

"Open and Closed" Getting the mix right. Who gets to Decide??

Dron, Jon; Anderson, Terry; Siemens, George (2012-10-26)

Despite the desirability of "Making Open the Default" as the theme of this year’s open access week, there are many reasons that can and should influence a person and an organization to restrict access to content. In this ...

P-learning’s unwelcome legacy

Dron, Jon (2016)

Formal teaching of adults has evolved in a context de ned, initially, by the constraints of physical boundaries. Classroom walls directly entail timetables, norms and rules of behaviour, social segregation into organized ...

Self-paced and social

Dron, Jon (AACE, 2012-11-14)

Traditionally, much institutional self-paced distance learning has been a largely individual activity, offering limited opportunities for teacher-student interaction and almost none for student-student interaction. This ...