Browsing Dr. Jon Dron by Title

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 ...

Social Interaction in Self-paced Distance Education.

Anderson, Terry; Upton, Lorne; Dron, Jon; Malone, Judi (Open Praxis, 2015)

In this paper we present a case study of a self-paced university course that was originally designed to support independent, self-paced study at distance. We developed a social media intervention, in design-based research ...

Three generations of distance education pedagogy

Anderson, Terry; Dron, Jon (2011-06-16)

This paper defines and examines three generations of distance education pedagogy. Unlike earlier classifications of distance education based on the technology used, this analysis focuses on the pedagogy that defines ...

Virtual platforms at Athabasca University

McGreal, Rory; Dron, Jon; Ellerman, Evelyn (2012-08-12)

The Athabasca University environment includes a virtual media lab (the e-Lab) which is an integrated website platform for curriculum enhancement and development, social networking, and pedagogical and disciplinary research. ...