By . Steve Wheeler interviewed three old guys, Michael Moore, Sir John Daniel and myself, at the EDEN conference in Budapest this summer, and has posted the video under the title of ‘Learn from three founding fathers of distance education‘. More...
By . Last year I did a series of five webinars on topics from my online, open textbook, ‘Teaching in a Digital Age.’ These proved to be very popular, with up to 200 requests for participation for each webinar. We limited registrants though to a maximum of 60 for each webinar, and there have been more than 20,000 downloads since the first webinars were offered, so I am grateful to Contact North for offering a second round of these webinars. More...
By . I hope you all had a great summer break and have come back fully charged for another always challenging year in teaching. I thought it might be helpful to pull together some of the developments in online learning that occurred over the summer that you may have missed. My list, of course, is very selective and personal. More...
By . I have always kept this blog as a strictly professional activity focused solely on online learning. However, I have something so extraordinary to report that I am making an exception. More...
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...
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