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Vote for our #MOOC production fellowship application?
Audrey Watters and I submitted an application for Iversity’s MOOC production fellowship program. If funded, we will co-teach a course that is desperately needed: Foundations of Educational Technology....
View ArticleSocial Media in Learning, Teaching, and Scholarship: 6 Tales of Practice
I had the pleasure of delivering the opening keynote to the 2013 Teaching and Learning to the Power of Technology conference on May 1st. Our hosts (Heather Ross, Jim Greer, and Brad Wuetherick) from...
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Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning journal
A number of South African colleagues have come together to launch Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning, a peer-reviewed, open access journal with the goal to publish scholarly articles and essays...
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Thank you for supporting our work!
A few weeks ago, Audrey and I submitted an application for a MOOC fellowship. Here’s Audrey’s announcement. Here’s my announcement. The voting phase of the competition has closed, and the next step is...
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Dim sum Courses – aka MOOCs
Photo by isaachsieh (CC-licensed) Martin Weller asks, “What’s your MOOC metaphor? I like the Dim sum (or Greek mezedes) metaphor to describe course exploration. Dim sum is described by Wikipedia as “a...
View ArticleBinaries
In reading the Higher Ed story about the new institutions joining Coursera, I am reminded of one of my favorite texts: Davies’ (1993) Shards of Glass. This wonderful book is a story of binaries...
View ArticleThe research that MOOCs need
Even though the concept of the Massive Open Online Course has become wildly popular during the last year, empirical research on these initiatives is largely absent. On the one hand, this is not...
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University of New Hampshire keynote talk
I have just returned from the University of New Hampshire where I gave a keynote talk at the 12th annual Faculty Instructional Technology Summer Institute. My hosts (Terri, Stephanie, Marshall, Dan,...
View ArticleThe MOOC stories we are told, and the ones that remain untold
I’ve been fascinated by the rhetoric surrounding MOOCs, and the storylines and narratives that are shared by providers of these initiatives. One of the main storylines around MOOCs focuses on amazing...
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Sample Preliminary Written Exam Questions
Doctoral students are often asked to take a preliminary written exam as part of their degree, and they are often unclear of what those questions look like. They visit with their adviser, ask friends,...
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Talking to machines: What do learners and robots talk about?
Talk like me by pursyapt My research endeavors originally started with an attempt to understand interactions between learners and virtual characters, bots, and other artificially intelligent beings....
View ArticleStartups should talk with researchers & educators
If you believe that educational technology startups can learn a thing or two from educators and education researchers in their quest to improve education, then we’d love your vote for our 2014 SXSWedu...
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A synthesis of the pedagogical agent literature
The 4th edition of the Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology recently arrived at my office. My graduate student and I have a chapter in this 1000-page volume (!) that...
View ArticleForthcoming ebook and twitter chat on MOOC and open learning experiences
I’m very excited to share the news that Hybrid Pedagogy will be publishing an open access e-book that I edited on learner experiences with Open Online Learning and MOOCs. The e-book, entitled Learner...
View ArticleInterested in a post-doc studying emerging forms of online participation?
Are you interested in a post-doctoral fellowship in any of the following topics? open online learning emerging forms of online participation digital and open scholarship online social networks learner,...
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Learner experiences with open online learning and MOOCs e-book
I’m excited to announce the publication of an open access e-book on learners’ experiences with open learning and MOOCs. The book consists of ten chapters by student authors and one introductory chapter...
View ArticleInvitation to the first AECT RTD Professional Development Webinar
You are invited to attend the first Professional Development webinar sponsored by the AECT Research & Theory Division! Presenter: Dr. David Merrill Instructional Effectiveness Consultant &...
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The road to SXSWedu 2014
In mid-August,, I posted a note asking for your vote on a panel I proposed for SXSWedu consisting of Tanya Joosten, Amy Collier, Audrey Watters, and myself. The topic was: Startups Should Talk with...
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Visiting Educause 2013. And encountering two innovations
I visited Educause 2013 this year, largely after an invitation by Tanya Joosten and Amy Collier to participate on a panel exploring what makes technology pilots successful. The panel was entitled...
View ArticleCOHERE 2013. Small is beautiful and MOOCs as symptoms
I am sitting at a coffee shop in Vancouver, BC reflecting on my time at COHERE 2013. This was my first Canadian conference since moving to Victoria, and it was a great opportunity to meet and spend...
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