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Link to Tony Bates' latest book (online open access textbook) Teaching in a Digital Age
Started by Madelaine Befus in the group EDDE 806 Doctoral Research Seminar January 18, 2015 - 5:45pmPosted to group: EDDE 806 Doctoral Research SeminarFYI - Tony Bates' latest textbook published using an open-access, Creative Commons license, is available here: http://opentextbc.ca/teachinginadigitalage/ Tony is the 806 guest speaker for Feb. 19. -
Making the community the curriculum | Dave Cormier
By Jon Dron 30 August 2017 @ 7:48pmdavecormier.pressbooks.com - The always wonderful Dave Cormier is writing a book (open, of course) about rhizomatic learning and, as you might expect given Dave's eclectic and rich range of skills (from uber-tech-guru to uber-learning-guru) not to mention his cutting edge... - By Terry Anderson January 18, 2016 - 12:46pmA grad student and a supervsor go into a bar. The supervsior orders a rough draft. Then 12 months of awkward silence.
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Four Student Misconceptions about Learning - Faculty Focus
By Sandra Law in the group Teaching and Learning at Athabasca July 26, 2017 - 3:15pmPosted to group: Teaching and Learning at AthabascaList of most common student misconceptions about learning cited in Stephen Chew's chapter on helping students to maximize their study time. -
The Lives and Deaths of Buildings in History
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group June 8, 2017 - 11:21amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupIn Fallen Glory: The Lives and Deaths of History's Greatest Buildings (Picador, 2017) James Crawford presents a history of architecture's impact on society and vice versa. Covering nearly 5000 years of human achievement and featuring 21... -
Computer science students should learn to cheat, not be punished for it
By Jon Dron 31 May 2017 @ 10:45am Comments (1)thenextweb.com - This is a well thought-through response to a recent alarmist NYT article about cheating among programming students. The original NYT article is full of holy pronouncements about the evils of plagiarism, horrified statistics about its extent, and... -
Workplace culture, slang, and motivation
Started by Tyler Lucas in the group COMP268 May 25, 2017 - 10:00am Replies (1) Last reply by Tyler Lucas May 25, 2017 - 2:12pmPosted to group: COMP268When I first started getting into fixing vehicles, being a general annoyance to my dad and his coworkers while he worked on semi trucks, there was no better motivation for an 11-year old to jump into a new field than getting to learn the slang and... -
Learnium
By Jon Dron 25 April 2017 @ 4:54pm Comments (5)www.learnium.com - Learnium is yet another attempt to overlay a cloud-based social medium on institutional learning, in the same family as systems like Edmodo, Wikispaces Classroom, Lore, GoingOn, etc, etc. I deliberately exclude from this list the far more excellent,... -
Congratulations, Dawn Wambold!
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group February 21, 2017 - 11:19amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupA big congratulations to AU Anthropology program student, Dawn Piche Wambold, who has been accepted into the MA program in Anthropology at the University of Alberta. Dawn will be working with Dr. Kisha Supernant as part of The Exploring Métis... -
Mexican Remittances Hit Record in 2016
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group February 2, 2017 - 2:39pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupStudents enrolled in Anth 394 (Urban Anthropology) take note of a recent article on remittances that Mexicans living abroad have sent home in 2016. http://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-globe-and-mail-ottawaquebec-edition/20170202/281943132613030 -
Recommended: Isolate Your USB Connections
Started by Tyler Lucas February 7, 2017 - 8:18pm Replies (9) Last reply by Tyler Lucas February 15, 2017 - 10:29amJust fried my laptop through the USB programming cable attached to the RedBoard/Arduino when something went wrong on the SparkFun Inventor's Kit breadboard. Could have saved my $2000+ computer with this $15 USB... -
Test Post
By Michael Mitter February 7, 2017 - 2:06pmJust testing out the AU blog posting system. Nothing to see here. -
TSUGI - Tsugi Framework for Building Learning Tools
By Jon Dron 31 January 2017 @ 11:46am Comments (1)https://www.tsugi.org/ - TSUGI is a very interesting approach to building a NGDLE (Next gen digital learning environment). It is another in a long line of fine projects by Chuck Severance, who is one of the leaders of Sakai (last gen digital learning environment), and who... -
Bridge champion who played her cards right (From The Argus)
By Jon Dron 11 January 2017 @ 3:27pm Comments (1)www.theargus.co.uk - Sad news for the world of bridge, about which I know almost nothing apart from what Sandra Landy, several-times world and European bridge champion, occasionally shared with me, and sad news for me. I learned today that she died last week, at the age... -
Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm.
By Jon Dron 9 January 2017 @ 2:26pmPosted to group: COMP 650: Social Computingwww.benkler.org - Yochai Benkler's seminal paper from 2002, introducing themes later explored in greater depth in the Wealth of Networks (very highly recommended, albeit very long indeed). In this shorter and earlier paper, he outlines his central notion of a third... -
Alfie Kohn: "It's bad news if students are motivated to get A's" - YouTube
By Jon Dron 6 January 2017 @ 12:53pm Comments (1)- A nice one-minute summary of Alfie Kohn's case against grades at www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQt-ZI58wpw There's a great deal more Kohn has to say on the subject that is worth reading, such as at http://www.alfiekohn.org/article/case-grades/... -
Interview with AU History/Anthropology student
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group January 6, 2017 - 2:52pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupThe Voice Magazine, an AUSU publication, recently conducted an interview with History and Anthropology major, Amanda Gillis. https://www.voicemagazine.org/search/searchdisplay.php?ART=11907 - By Mark A. McCutcheon December 20, 2016 - 10:22amMy new MA course in literary studies, Gothic Transformations, is now open to enrollments: http:/
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Meet Up: AU Anthropology Students in Calgary
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group December 15, 2016 - 10:40pmPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupIf you are an AU Anthropology student in the Calgary area (or surrounding areas), email Dr. Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown (meaghanp@athabascau.ca) and she will add you to our monthly meet up email list. On Wed. Nov. 16, we met up to attend a lecture of...
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No, you aren't a 'visual' learner
By Jon Dron 21 September 2017 @ 7:16pmtheweek.com - It's a damning indictment of our collective resistance to truth that the point of this article still has to be restated, yet again. Amazingly, 93% of the general public and 76% of educators still erroneously believe that we should be taught in ways... -
Heritage Preservation and Urban Planning/Development
By Meaghan Peuramaki-Brown in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group September 8, 2017 - 10:20amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupANTH 394 Urban Anthropology students might find this CBC Ideas episode interesting. It deals with the topic of heritage preservation in urban planning and development today; in particular, it focuses on the tensions that exist between the... -
Manipulator Arm Modifications
By Tyler Lucas July 25, 2017 - 11:01pm Comments (2)There comes a point where one must stop modifying a plan and just start over...
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Our educational assessment systems are designed to create losers
By Jon Dron July 4, 2017 - 7:37pm Comments (2)The always wonderful Alfie Kohn describes an airline survey that sought to find out how it compared with others, which he chose not to answer because the airline was thus signalling no interest in providing the best quality experience possible,... -
Posts by Matthew Prineas - Athabasca University's new Provost and Vice-president, Academic
By Jon Dron 26 June 2017 @ 10:03amevolllution.com - I suspect everyone on Athabasca University's staff will be very interested in these posts by Matthew Prineas, who we will welcome on September 5th as our new provost and VPA, that show a great understanding of at least some of the benefits and... -
Mummies Help Scientists Study Diseases
By Laurie Milne in the group AU Anthropology Interest Group June 22, 2017 - 10:02amPosted to group: AU Anthropology Interest GroupA recent article in the Globe and Mail (June 13, 2017) discusses the use of evidence from ancient mummies in understanding modern diseases. https://www.pressreader.com/canada/the-globe-and-mail-ottawaquebec-edition/20170613/282144996328263 
Bannock and a Movie - June 23, 2017
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Computer science students should learn to cheat, not be punished for it
By Jon Dron 31 May 2017 @ 10:45am Comments (1)thenextweb.com - This is a well thought-through response to a recent alarmist NYT article about cheating among programming students. The original NYT article is full of holy pronouncements about the evils of plagiarism, horrified statistics about its extent, and...
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