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Towards a Theory of Online Learning
(Athabasca University Press, 2004)
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. ...
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 ...
Book Review of Delivering Digitally by Inglis, Ling and Joosten
(IRRODL, 2002-10)
We know that significant organizational change must have roots both at the top of an organization and “in the trenches” amongst those who must implement the change. In the middle lies a critical group of middle managers, ...
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 ...
Lost in social space: Information retrieval issues in Web 1.5
(Journal of Digital Information, 2009-01)
This paper is concerned with the application of Web 2.0 technologies within a conventional institutional learning setting. After considering the affordances of Web 2.0 technologies vs Web 1.0 technologies and a framework ...
Conference Connections: Rewiring the Circuit.
(EDUCAUSE Review, 2008-03)
In late 1971, several entirely forgettable messages were sent between two machines (today we would call them computers, but the word machines more accurately reflects their size at that time) located only a few feet from ...