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Online professional development conferences: An effective, economical and eco-friendly option
(Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology, 2009)
In order to stay current within their field, many professionals regularly attend conferences and training events in distant locales. Travel to these conferences costs professionals, and their sponsor organizations, both ...
Is Videoconferencing the Killer App1 for K-12 Distance Education?
(Journal of Distance Education, 2008)
This paper overviews a multi-mode research study of Internet Protocol (IP)
videoconferencing applications in five early adopter school divisions in Alberta,
an oil-rich province located in Western Canada. The applications ...
A Rose by Any Other Name: Still Distance Education
(Journal of Distance Education, 2009)
Randy Garrison is a long-time teacher, collaborator, supervisor and friend
of mine. Thus, I approach my critique of his recent article in the Journal of
Distance Education (Garrison, 2009) with some considerable unease. ...
Ethical Issues in Qualitative E-Learning Research
(International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 2007-06)
In the mid 1980s education researchers began exploring the use of
the Internet within teaching and learning practices, now commonly referred
to as e-learning. At the same time, many e-learning researchers were discovering
that ...
On the Design of Collective Applications
(2009-09-09)
In this paper we define collective applications as those that employ the aggregated distinct behaviours of individuals in a crowd to shape their environment and to provide structure and influence in that environment. Such ...
Distance learning – Social software’s killer ap?
(the Open & Distance Learning Association of Australia, 2005)
This paper discusses the challenges of developing modes of distance education that afford maximum freedom for learners—including the ability to enroll continuously and to pace one’s own learning—and yet still create ...
THE DANCE OF TECHNOLOGY AND PEDAGOGY IN SELF-PACED DISTANCE EDUCATION
(2009-06-23)
This paper describes the dance like relationship between pedagogy and technologies that creates distance education programming. Using a dance metaphor, the paper describes earlier generation of distance education and notes ...
Invited Commentary on Reusing Online Resources, Chapter 19: Reuse of Resources within Communities of Practice, by Rachel Harris and Carol Higgison.
(Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2003)
The Online Tutoring Skills (OtiS) e-workshop described in this chapter makes a significant contribution to knowledge of how to effectively design and manage virtual conferences or e-workshops. In addition they provide a ...
Invited Commentary on Reusing Online Resources, Chapter 17: A Comparison of Issues in Reuse of Resources in Schools and Colleges, by Allison Littlejohn, Insung Jung and Liz Broumley.
(Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2003)
This chapter forces us to confront an issue that has long haunted education technology focused reformers ? what if we build it and nobody comes? Will learning objects end up alongside programmed learning machines, educational ...