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A decade of unwriting: the life history of "How Education Works"
By Jon Dron June 24, 2023 - 2:16pmAbout 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".Look what just arrived on my doorstep! #howeducationworks from @au_press is now available in print...
By Jon Dron June 29, 2023 - 1:49pmHard copies and e-book versions of How Education Works are now available, and they are starting to turn up in bookstores. The recommended retail price is CAD$40 but Amazon is selling the Kindle version for a bit less.Here are a few outlets that...▶ How Education Works, the audio book: now with beats
By Jon Dron 8 November 2023 @ 3:46pmwww.spreaker.com - My book has been set to music! Many thanks to Terry Greene for converting How Education Works into the second in his inspired series of podcasts, EZ Learning - Audio Books with Beats. There's a total of 15 episodes that can be listened to online,...Preprint - The human nature of generative AIs and the technological nature of humanity:...
By Jon Dron 9 October 2023 @ 12:09pmwww.preprints.org - Here is a preprint of a paper I just submitted to MDPI's Digital journal that applies the co-participation model that underpins How Education Works (and a number of my papers over the last few years) to generative AIs (GAIs). I don't know whether it...The artificial curriculum
By Jon Dron 15 July 2023 @ 1:23pmwww.researchgate.net - “Shaping the Future of Education: Exploring the Potential and Consequences of AI and ChatGPT in Educational Settings” by Simone Grassini is a well-researched, concise but comprehensive overview of the state of play for generative...Sets, nets and groups revisited
By Jon Dron July 3, 2024 - 10:41pmHere are the slides from a talk I gave earlier today, hosted by George Siemens and his fine team of people at Human Systems. Terry Anderson helped me to put the slides together, and offered some great insights and commentary after the presentation...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 latest paper: Technology, Teaching, and the Many Distances of Distance Learning | Journal of...
By Jon Dron 16 February 2023 @ 7:18pmwww.jofdl.nz - 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...