By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Enough is enough! Let's reclaim common ground, let's reclaim our voice in society! 
These thoughts have been playing in my mind: why are academic voices hardly heard in contemporary societal debates? Why are there so many opinions, and so little facts? Why do we - as educators - promote lifelong learning, yet we are not reaching out to citizens in our own regions, nations, or across nations. Read more...

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Interesting question from Airina Volungeviciene whether the published research can be tagged in some way (like with xAPI or similar but than connected to bridge theory to practical) in order to see how applicable the research is, whether it is implemented and how. Some indicators to see the impact of science. Read more...

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Interesting idea of moving from teaching to teacher presence, where each one of us can be the teacher in a community. Context is changing, this means roles are changing. This is more about teaching and learning, making a transition like this can make a significant contribution to the higher educational reform. Read more...

By Inge Ignatia de Waard.  Finally, I got to meet George Veletsianos (http://www.veletsianos.com/) and the pleasure of hearing his keynote liveblog from EDENRW9.  
open/social/digital scholarship: how does that influence each of our professional practice? 
But we as academics are not only online for professional reasons, we are also humans with lives... online. Read more...

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Isa Jahnke (http://www.isa-jahnke.com/ ) is an inspiring academic, and one who knows how to network.
Liveblogging from Oldenburg, Germany.
Who is using a device with internet access? That is cross action spaces… when you tweet content is used to link to other people in other spaces, to learn from.
Human interaction is crossaction… multiple spaces. Read more...

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Paul Prinsloo (https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-prinsloo-226a8716) was looking particularly good this morning in his light blue jacket and his radiant presence. And what he said hit home! Really great presentation.
Liveblogging what he said here. (@14prinsp ) slides on slideshare (http://www.slideshare.net/prinsp/the-increasing-impossibilities-of-justice-and-care-in-open-distance-learning). Read more...

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Martha Cleveland Innes from Athabasca University (yeah!!!) talks about MOOC.
MOOCs are part of educational reform.
She looks at the drivers for higher education and change, and looking at those will (hopefully) make. This is a liveblog from EDEN research workshop 9. Read more...

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. So, this is it. My thesis is submitted and it will now be wrapped and sent out to my examiners. For anyone interested, you can read the thesis here. The full title: self-directed learning of adult experienced online learners enrolled in FutureLearn MOOCs. Read more...