Browsing Dr. Terry Anderson by Author "Dron, Jon"

Agoraphobia and the modern learner.

Dron, Jon; Anderson, Terry (Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2014-03)

Read/write social technologies enable rich pedagogies that centre on sharing and constructing content but have two notable weaknesses. Firstly, beyond the safe, nurturing environment of closed groups, students participating ...

The Distant Crowd: Transactional Distance And New Social Media Literacies.

Dron, Jon; Anderson, Terry (International Journal of Learning and Media, 2014)

Sociality is not just a cultural phenomenon but is embedded in our genes as eusocial creatures (E. O.Wilson 2012). Learning is an innately social activity, and the processes of teaching, the passing of knowledge from one ...

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 ...

The Future of E-Learning

Dron, Jon; Anderson, Terry (2016-06-23)

This is not the first attempt to predict the future of e-learning and our first confident prediction is that it will not be the last. Our intent in this chapter is to focus less on the digital technologies involved and ...

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. ...

Lost in social space: Information retrieval issues in Web 1.5

Dron, Jon; Anderson, Terry (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 ...

On the Design of Collective Applications

Dron, Jon; Anderson, Terry (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 ...

On the Design of Social Media for Learning

Dron, Jon; Anderson, Terry (social sciences, 2014-08-08)

This paper presents two conceptual models that we have developed for understanding ways that social media can support learning. One model relates to the “social” aspect of social media, describing the different ways that ...

"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 ...

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 ...