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In support of OER in MOOCs or OOCs
By Rory McGreal December 9, 2013 - 11:44am Comments (1)Whether 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...Looking for inspiration in your career or for the new year?
By Shawn Lewenza January 4, 2016 - 1:09pmNobel prize winner digs deepAmericans’ Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance | Pew Research Center
By Jon Dron 20 May 2015 @ 8:27am Comments (3)Posted to group: COMP 650: Social Computingwww.pewinternet.org - Another fine Pew report on US attitudes to privacy etc. Everyone wants more, no one trusts that they are getting it. The US is a country that is singularly lacking in effective privacy legislation which is odd, given how much privacy appears to be...Git for teachers — Medium
By Jon Dron 11 April 2016 @ 4:23pm Comments (3)medium.com - This is a nice set of reflections on the potential value of GitHub to teachers. The title is broader, referring to the Git source code version control system, an open standard with hundreds of implementations, but most of the article is about...A Universe Explodes: A Blockchain Book, from Editions At Play
By Jon Dron 1 December 2017 @ 7:42pm Comments (2)medium.com - A really nice project from the Editions at Play team at Google, in which blockchain is used both to limit supply to a digital book (only 100 copies made) and, as the book is passed on, to make it 'age,' in the sense that each reader must remove two...My latest paper: On the Misappropriation of Spatial Metaphors in Online Learning
By Jon Dron 3 January 2023 @ 12:49pmjournal.otessa.org - This is a link to my latest paper, published in the closing days of 2022. The paper started as a couple of blog posts that I turned into a paper that nearly made an appearance in the Distance Education in China journal before a last-minute regime...My 2013 "To Stop Doing" List
By George Siemens January 2, 2013 - 11:34am Comments (1)My history of to do lists is not pleasant.I've gone through the books, resources, and models of getting things done (including the classic, GTD). End result: more frustration with a system than productive achievement. Part of the problem arises...- By Colin Elliott October 18, 2013 - 2:47pmOpen Access Week at AU! Oct. 21-27. http:/
/ openaccess.athabascau.ca/ - 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 A 4th Presence for the Community of Inquiry??
By Terry Anderson January 6, 2016 - 10:20am Comments (7)The Community of Inquiry has emerged as the most widely referenced (the seminal 1999 article approaches 3,000 citations) and arguably the most widely used model for constructivist based e-learning design and research. I’ve always...
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