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Recent updates (latest update: March 5th)
The Landing added a photo to the album ishot-192.jpg- The Landing added a photo to the album Special Olympics
- David Langer commented on a wiki page titled Getting to know the Landing in the group The Landing Help Community
- Anonymous commented on a wiki page titled How to Get a Decent Grade on an Essay, or “Writing Tips for Students Who Suck at Writing”
- Mark A. McCutcheon replied on the discussion topic Warning about "trigger warnings" used to censor university curriculum in the group Athabasca University Faculty Association (AUFA)
- Mike Sosteric added a new discussion topic Open forum for discussion of topics related to the Sociology of Religion/Spirituality/Mysticism. in the group Sociology of Religion 231
- Mike Sosteric uploaded the file Doing the Sociology of Religion in the group Sociology of Religion 231
- Sandra Law replied on the discussion topic Warning about "trigger warnings" used to censor university curriculum in the group Athabasca University Faculty Association (AUFA)
- Mark A. McCutcheon replied on the discussion topic Warning about "trigger warnings" used to censor university curriculum in the group Athabasca University Faculty Association (AUFA)
- Marc Cels replied on the discussion topic Warning about "trigger warnings" used to censor university curriculum in the group Athabasca University Faculty Association (AUFA)
- By 610 User - S. R. White March 5, 2014 - 9:26amJon Dron was very generous with his time commenting on my MDDE610 post. http:/
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Stress and it's effects on students. Just a thought
By Miranda Tumbach January 18, 2014 - 9:09pm Comments (5)I saw this story today. I had to share. It's not the ending you would expect. It is in it's original form.A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected...
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How to Get a Decent Grade on an Essay, or “Writing Tips for Students Who Suck at Writing”
Last updated March 8, 2014 - 9:37pm by sarah beth Comments (1)Writing is a fact of university life, but not everyone likes to do it, and not everyone is particularly good at it. If you don’t make it out of undergrad without at least the ability to communicate clearly, you’re going to be pretty... -
Warning about "trigger warnings" used to censor university curriculum
Started by Mark A. McCutcheon in the group Athabasca University Faculty Association (AUFA) March 7, 2014 - 9:19am Replies (8) Last reply by Mark A. McCutcheon March 8, 2014 - 5:11pmPosted to group: Athabasca University Faculty Association (AUFA)CAUT has alerted Canadian university faculty associations to an emerging concern about the use of "trigger warnings" in university curriculum, use with serious implications for quality of teaching and academic freedom: "Trigger warnings," are... -
Christ, I hate Blackboard
By Jon Dron 27 January 2014 @ 11:04amwww.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com - From Dave Noon, what Boing Boing describes as a 'Lovecraftian rant' about how much the author hates Blackboard. Brilliant. If you don't know Blackboard, it is a learning management system from the Blackboard corporation. The company produces... - By Jon Dron March 4, 2014 - 6:23pmAnd now you should be able to read the Landing in transit! Mobile-friendly theme now installed. Tell us if you hit any problems with it.
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Is Athabasca University moving away from tutoring? Not exactly.
By Jon Dron February 1, 2014 - 6:52pm Comments (3)A response to Tony Bates's question on whether AU is moving away from a tutoring model and an analysis of some of the deeper issues and barriers to change that affect the university.
- By Terry Anderson March 3, 2014 - 2:23pmJust noticed, the Landing just had its 6'000 user sign up. Getting critical mass???
- By Jon Dron March 3, 2014 - 11:47amThe 'Like' button is not on the front page widget but is still in the full Wire page along with other Wire tools - http:/
/ bit.ly/ ULltsT - By sarah beth March 3, 2014 - 5:44amThe "Like" button has disappeared from the Wire, but I like a mobile site! I read stuff on the Landing in transit a lot. :)
- By Mark A. McCutcheon February 10, 2014 - 9:31pmThe Main Thing Students in Literary Studies Need to Understand: “Talk About the Writing” http:/
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In support of OER in MOOCs or OOCs
By Rory McGreal December 9, 2013 - 11:44amWhether there are elites or not, society wants people to be educated. Tthe Marxist approach has always been to educate the masses not confine accessibility to education to small elites. Socialist countries have always focused on training for skills... - By Terry Anderson January 28, 2014 - 4:28pmAU's EdD student Susan Bainbridge wins world's first online 3 minute thesis contest with work on elearning in Nepal
- By Mark A. McCutcheon January 20, 2014 - 3:07pmUBC president sees 3 trends undermining #highered's mission & diversity: rankings; government control of research; MOOCs http:/
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Commonwealth of Learning Award for Excellence in Design of Distance Education Materials
By Cindy Ives December 17, 2013 - 8:54am Comments (1)I'm very pleased to announce that an AU course has been awarded the Commonwealth of Learning Award of Excellence for Distance Education Materials. Collaboration and Mentoring in Educational Environments (MDDE 665) is a classic example of 'simple... - By Terry Anderson January 13, 2014 - 3:50pmAU's George Siemens gets quite a write up in the US Chronicle of Higher Educ. http:/
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How I am learning to code
By Jon Dron January 13, 2014 - 1:22pm Comments (1)During my sabbatical I am learning to program. Given that I have been programming for about 30 years (actually, more than 40 if you count a few weeks learning machine code with a single punchcard machine in primary school before picking it up... -
Differences between Discussion Boards, Blogs and Wikis
By Jon Dron 12 January 2014 @ 10:52amPosted to group: The Landing Help Communitywww.adelaide.edu.au - The Landing's toolset is very flexible indeed and there are many overlaps in functionality between its tools, so it can often be hard to choose between the available tools when you are sharing something. This is one of the reasons it can feel... -
10 Reasons We're Against Unions! - Ampersand Cartoons
By Sandra Law 6 December 2013 @ 4:42am Comments (1)Posted to group: Political Satireleftycartoons.com - Humourous look at the reasons that people give for being against unions.
- By Mark A. McCutcheon March 7, 2014 - 9:22amCAUT issues warning about "trigger warnings" used to censor university curriculum: http:/
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- By 610 User - S. R. White March 5, 2014 - 9:26amJon Dron was very generous with his time commenting on my MDDE610 post. http:/
/ bit.ly/ 1lySvwi Great comments on his vision for The Landing - By Jenni Hayman March 4, 2014 - 8:18pmCelebrating Open Education Week! Open Online Education for Non-Profits hosted by Jenni Hayman on her Google+ account. "Opens" March 10.
- By Jon Dron March 4, 2014 - 6:23pmAnd now you should be able to read the Landing in transit! Mobile-friendly theme now installed. Tell us if you hit any problems with it.
- By Jon Dron March 4, 2014 - 5:47pmAnd now we have a new theme! Hope you like it. Also there's a new group blog locking tool. More information at http:/
/ bit.ly/ NlwbRv - By Terry Anderson March 3, 2014 - 2:23pmJust noticed, the Landing just had its 6'000 user sign up. Getting critical mass???
- By Jon Dron March 3, 2014 - 11:47amThe 'Like' button is not on the front page widget but is still in the full Wire page along with other Wire tools - http:/
/ bit.ly/ ULltsT - By sarah beth March 3, 2014 - 5:44amThe "Like" button has disappeared from the Wire, but I like a mobile site! I read stuff on the Landing in transit a lot. :)
- By Terry Anderson February 27, 2014 - 12:15pmCheck out the new and mobile friendly Landing theme that Jon has been working on. Do out very soon http:/
/ bit.ly/ 1jDSXGk Comments welcomed!
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Atlas of Living Australia: Sharing biodiversity knowledge
By Sandra Law 11 February 2014 @ 11:54amPosted to group: Open Science Activities and Resourceshttp://www.ala.org.au/ - The Atlas of Living Australia contains information on all the known species in Australia aggregated from a wide range of data providers: museums, herbaria, community groups, government departments, individuals and universities. -
Peer Learning Handbook | Peeragogy.org
By Jon Dron 31 December 2013 @ 6:16pmhttp://peeragogy.org/ - Interesting and free evolving handbook for learning with and from others without formal structures and courses. It's a little overblown in singing its own praises and a little lacking in much substance yet, not to mention having a cringeworthy... -
Classrooms may one day learn us - but not yet
By Jon Dron December 30, 2013 - 6:55pm Comments (2)Thanks to Jim and others who have recently brought my attention to IBM's rather grandiose claim that, in a few years, classrooms will learn us. In case it is not obvious, we are talking about learning analytics here. This kind of technology has... -
Online 3 Minute Thesis Contest at Athabasca
By Terry Anderson September 30, 2013 - 8:05amI’m intrigued by this “speed dating” approach for disseminating and promoting thesis research. A thesis is a LOT of work, and results are usually buried in 150+ page tomes – thus the need for new scholars to be able to...
