AUSpace: Recent submissions
Now showing items 121-140 of 2001
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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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
Empirical Research on Learners' Perceptions: Interaction Equivalency Theorem in Blended Learning
(European Journal of Open, Distance and E-Learning, 2010-04-27)This paper reports on an empirical research on the Interaction Equivalency Theorem posited by Anderson (2003a), consisting of the three elements of teacher-student-content interaction. Using an authordeveloped survey, ... -
Student Perceptions of Teaching Presence, Social Presence, and Cognitive Presence in a Virtual World
(Journal of Online Learning and Teaching, 2011-09)Presence - or having a sense of active participation - in distance education has increased with the expanding use of and affordances of communications technologies. Virtual worlds have been on the forefront of popular ... -
Open Access Scholarly Publications as OER
(IRRODL, 2013-06)This paper presents the rationale, common practices, challenges, and some personal anecdotes from a journal editor on the production, use, and re-use of peer-reviewed scholarly articles as open educational resources (OER). ... -
Deciding what kind of course to take: Factors that influence modality selection in accounting continuing professional development
(Knowledge Management & E-Learning, 2013-06)This study used a cross sectional sample created by self-selection from a researchers' email invitation to accountants in Canada to determine which modalities accountants preferred when selecting Continuing Professional ... -
Interaction Equivalency in an OER, MOOCS and Informal Learning Era
(Journal of Interactive Media in Education, 2013-09)This theoretical paper attempts to clarify design issues that the field of education has encountered in the context of OER (Open Educational Resources), Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and increased emphasis on informal ... -
Using a Design-Based Research Study to Identify Principles for Training Instructors to Teach Online
(IRRODL, 2013)Within the overall framework of design-based research, this paper reports on a study that focused on evaluating an online training course for online instructors. This intervention was designed as a possible solution to the ... -
Agoraphobia and the modern learner.
(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 ... -
A Framework for Interaction and Cognitive Engagement in Connectivist Learning Contexts
(IRRODL, 2014-04)Interaction has always been highly valued in education, especially in distance education (Moore, 1989; Anderson, 2003; Chen, 2004a; Woo & Reeves, 2007; Wang, 2013; Conrad, in press). It has been associated with motivation ... -
On the Design of Social Media for Learning
(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 ... -
The Distant Crowd: Transactional Distance And New Social Media Literacies.
(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 ... -
Social Interaction in Self-paced Distance Education.
(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 ... -
Problems for the Italian-Canadian Writer and Critic: A Discussion in Three Parts
(University of Toronto, Iacobucci Centre, 2009)Part One: The State of the Art; Part Two: Younger Writers; Part Three: The Burdens of History for the Italian -
Twenty Years of Change: The Paradox of Italian-Canadian Writers
(Strange Peregrinations, 2006)The most significant development which has taken place among Italian-Canadian writers since 1986 is the great amount of writing and publication. This was not supposed to happen according to most opinions. I recall that for ...