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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...Can a technology be true?
By Jon Dron March 16, 2023 - 1:27pmDave 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...Published in Digital - The Human Nature of Generative AIs and the Technological Nature of Humanity:...
By Jon Dron 26 November 2023 @ 2:37pmwww.mdpi.com - A month or two ago I shared a "warts-and-all" preprint of this paper on the risks of educational uses of generative AIs. The revised, open-access published version, The Human Nature of Generative AIs and the Technological Nature of Humanity:...Slides from my webinar, How to Be an Educational Technology: An Entangled Perspective on Teaching
By Jon Dron September 24, 2024 - 1:00pmFor those with an interest, here are the slides from my webinar for Contact North | Contact Nord that I gave today: How to be an educational technology (warning: large download, about 32MB).I will update this post with a link to the recording if...Proceedings of The Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association Conference,...
By Jon Dron 13 January 2023 @ 11:06amconference.otessa.org - 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...
