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Jon Dron uploaded the file How Education Works - hard copies June 29, 2023 - 1:03pm

A picture of three copies of my book, How Education Works: Teaching, Technology, and Technique
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  Jon Dron June 29, 2023 - 1:52pm
  Why, thank you, Rob!
  You don't have to wait that long to read it if you wish - PDF and online versions are available for free at https://www.aupress.ca/books/120320-how-education-works/
  Naturally I recommend the paper or e-book versions for a more satisfying reading experience (disclaimer: I may be biased because I get a very small amount of money for every one sold), but these will do at a pinch.
- Robert Schmidt@robertsc55
  
  Robert Schmidt June 29, 2023 - 1:55pm
  Hello Jon:
  That is wonderful, and thank you! I am happy to pick up a copy as well. Whether you know it or not, I have been stalking you for some time (not in a creepy way) and learning so much from your way of learning and teaching.
  I can't wait to read your book!
  
  Best regards,
  Rob
- Jon Dron@jond
  
  Jon Dron June 29, 2023 - 3:39pm
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  I'm delighted to be stalked in this fashion! Thanks so much, Rob
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Jon Dron published a blog post A decade of unwriting: the life history of "How Education Works" June 24, 2023 - 2:13pm

About 10 years ago I submitted the first draft of a book called "How Learning Technologies Work" to AU Press. The title was a nod to David Byrne's book, "How Music Works".
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Jon Dron uploaded the file Not one distance: Understanding distance in complexivist learning June 19, 2023 - 10:23pm

Slides for my research table at the FST Retreat, 2023
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Jon Dron uploaded the file Technological distance - my slides from OTESSA '23 June 2, 2023 - 2:01pm

Here are the slides from my talk today at OTESSA '23. Technological distance is a way of understanding distance that fits with modern complexivist models of learning such as Connectivism, Heutagogy, Networks/Communities of Practice/Rhizomatic...
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Jon Dron commented on a bookmark The DIKW hierarchy as interpeted by ChatGPT May 15, 2023 - 5:16pm

I love this! Excellent use of the technology and wonderful philosophical questions, Eugene.
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Jon Dron uploaded the file Learning styles March 16, 2023 - 1:28pm

by Dall-e "in the style of Ralph Steadman"
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Jon Dron published a blog post Can a technology be true? March 16, 2023 - 12:47pm

Dave Cormier is a wonderfully sideways-thinking writer, such as in this recent discussion of the myth of learning styles. Dave's post is not mainly about learning style theories, as such, but the nature and value of myth. As he puts it, myth is "a...
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Jon Dron bookmarked View of Speculative Futures on ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Collective... March 13, 2023 - 12:50pm

This is a remarkable paper, pubished in the Asian Journal of Distance Education, written by 35 remarkable people from all over the world and me. It was led by the remarkable Aras Boskurt, who pulled all 36 of us together and wrote much of it in the...

http://www.asianjde.com/ojs/index.php/AsianJDE/article/view/709/394
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Jon Dron bookmarked My latest paper: Technology, Teaching, and the Many Distances of Distance Learning | Journal of... February 16, 2023 - 7:19pm

I am pleased to announce my latest paper, published openly in the Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning, which has long been one of my favourite distance and ed tech journals. The paper starts with an abbreviated argument about the...

https://www.jofdl.nz/index.php/JOFDL/article/view/557
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Jon Dron published a blog post Athabasca University's major unions condemn the sacking of Peter Scott. Meanwhile.... February 10, 2023 - 3:02pm

The undergraduate students union, Canadian Union of Public Employees, and Athabasca University professional and faculty union have now all come out with strongly worded statements protesting the recent firing of Peter Scott and the process used to...
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Jon Dron uploaded the file a politician and a lawyer February 10, 2023 - 2:53pm

Generated by MidJourney. Petition to protest government interference with AU at https://www.change.org/p/athabasca-university-oppose-direct-political-interference-in-universities
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Jon Dron bookmarked Petition · Athabasca University - Oppose direct political interference in universities · Change.org February 6, 2023 - 10:27am

I, like many staff and students, have been deeply shaken and outraged by recent events at Athabasca University. This is a petition by me and Simon Buckingham Shum, of the University of Technology Sydney, Australia to protest the blatant interference...

https://www.change.org/p/athabasca-university-oppose-direct-political-interference-in-universities
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Jon Dron published a blog post Athabasca University bids a deeply reluctant farewell to Peter Scott in the vilest attack yet by... February 2, 2023 - 5:02pm

You may have heard that the president of Athabasca University, Peter Scott, was replaced yesterday with Alex Clark, erstwhile Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at AU. This was a complete surprise - no, utter shock - to everyone at AU, from...
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Jon Dron uploaded the file heads in clouds January 19, 2023 - 10:22pm

by Midjourney in the style of Magritte
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Jon Dron uploaded the file My keynote slides for Confluence 2023 - Heads in the clouds: being human in the age of cloud... January 19, 2023 - 9:34pm

These are the slides from my keynote today (or, in my land, yesterday) at Confluence 2023, hosted by Amity University in India. It was a cloud computing conference, so quite a way outside my area of greatest expertise, but it gave me a chance to...
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Jon Dron bookmarked Proceedings of The Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association Conference,... January 13, 2023 - 11:07am

These are the proceedings of OTESSA '22. There's a good mix of research/theory and practice papers, including one from me, Rory McGreal, Vive Kumar, and Jennifer Davies arising from our work on trying to use digital landmarks to make e-texts more...

https://conference.otessa.org/index.php/conference/issue/view/3
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Jon Dron published a blog post Two stories about learning to be human from a machine January 12, 2023 - 5:21pm

I asked ChatGPT to write me a story about a robot teaching children to be human. This is what it came up with...Once upon a time, in a far-off land, there lived a robot named Zephyr. Zephyr was unlike any other robot, as it had been programmed...
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Jon Dron uploaded the file Cyborg teacher in a cyborg classroom January 12, 2023 - 5:19pm

Thanks to Midjourney for this!
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Jon Dron bookmarked Hot off the press: Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education (open access) January 4, 2023 - 9:56pm

This might be the most important book in the field of open, distance, and digital education to be published this decade. Congratulations to Olaf Zawacki-Richter and Insung Jung, the editors, as well as to all the section editors, for assembling a...

https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-981-19-2080-6
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Jon Dron uploaded the file Handbook of Open, Distance, and Digital Education cover January 4, 2023 - 9:32pm

Original source: https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007/978-981-19-2080-6 CC BY

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