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The cost of time
By Jon Dron May 1, 2015 - 12:49pmA few days back, an email was sent to our ‘allstaff’ mailing list inviting us to join in a bocce tournament. This took me a bit of time to digest, not least because I felt impelled to look up what ‘bocce’ means (it’s an...
Ryan et al. "Professional Allies: The Storying of Allies to LGBTQ Students on a College...
By Mark A. McCutcheon 15 December 2012 @ 2:19pmwww.tandfonline.com - Ryan, M. et al. "Professional Allies: The Storying of Allies to LGBTQ Students on a College Campus." Journal of Homosexuality 60.1 (2013),: 83- 104 This article details the narratives of faculty and staff involved in a lesbian, gay,...- 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. :)
My comments on "Inventing the University" by David Bartholomae
By Surjit Atwal June 10, 2015 - 4:48pm Comments (1)When I was preparing for the first assignment, I read the article “Inventing the University” by David Bartholomae. It got me thinking about my writing process during my time as an undergraduate student. Bartholomae says that students...Joining Centre for Distance Education
By George Siemens August 20, 2012 - 3:42pm Comments (11)I started classroom teaching in the late 1990's at Red River College in Winnipeg, Manitoba. We were the first department in Canada to go exclusively laptop. All of our classrooms were equipped with LCD projectors, wired connections at each seat,...MOOC pedagogy and accreditation
By Terry Anderson November 13, 2012 - 12:58am Comments (4)Most of the cacophony of comments and posts about MOOCs and their disruptive potential has focused on their free cost to students, high enrolments, superstar teachers and high prestige Universities. Relatively little has been published, much less...Teaching gestalts
By Jon Dron October 21, 2013 - 8:02pmA discussion of the distributed nature of all teaching and how learning is orchestrated by many teachers, leading to some big questions about the nature of teaching and learning in general.
Is Athabasca University moving away from tutoring? Not exactly.
By Jon Dron February 1, 2014 - 6:52pm Comments (7)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.
Why isn’t the Landing better integrated with coursework at Athabasca?
By Jeffrey Pinto July 23, 2015 - 6:03am Comments (6)Why are we relying on such a small peer group for feedback on our thesis ideas? This seems especially short-sighted given that Athabasca has a platform in place for connecting with the wider community.
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