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Educational Media
News and information about Educational Media and eLearning
Administrator Account on September 05, 2011 20:20
After a very successful conference on learning analytics in Banff, planning has begun for next year’s conference in Vancouver. The call for papers is out – due Oct 15. Key dates are also available. 
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Administrator Account on September 05, 2011 20:20
Via @philbradley (Google Kills More Projects; see the full trail of destruction on the GoogleLabs site itself), I notice that the “two dimensional” search model Google Squared is to be culled, although remnants will remain in the main Google Web Search results. If you want to roll your own version of Google Squared, that should [...]  
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Administrator Account on September 05, 2011 20:20
A first attempt at an abstract for my Difference That Makes a Difference conference talk on Visualising the difference: revealing pattern and structure through graphical techniques. As soon as I try to adopt an academic style, sentence length explodes, I start to confuse myself, and generally end up saying very little at all… When using [...]  
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Administrator Account on September 05, 2011 20:20
When I first started my phd, I wanted to research the future of higher education – what is changing in the world that will impact education. I spent a fair bit of looking at university models around the world, change pressures they were facing, and the (potentially significant) peripheral trends that had the potential to [...] 
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Administrator Account on September 05, 2011 20:20
I’m celebrating today, in my last day sitting on a Canada Research Chair (virtually of course!). I doubt if chairless tomorrow will be much different than today, but it is the passing of a personal academic era. I came to Athabasca University 10 years ago as the Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Distance Education. The [...] 
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Administrator Account on September 05, 2011 20:20 
Whilst on holiday a couple of weeks ago, we took an audio tour on an open top bus. I missed a significant chunk of the tour because my headphones broke after the first couple of minutes (the cable was only a tiny, easily snapped strand of copper thick… I guess the cost of copper played [...]  
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Administrator Account on September 05, 2011 20:20
I spent a chunk of today trying to get my thoughts in order for a keynote presentation at next week’s The Difference that Makes a Difference conference. The theme of my talk will be on how visualisations can be used to discover structure and pattern in data, and as in many or my other recent [...]  
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Administrator Account on September 05, 2011 20:20 
I am pleased to be able to introduce a new site – http://equivalencytheorem.info/ created by Terumi Miyazoe from Tokyo Denki University and myself to invite more use, critique and understanding of my 2003 distance education Interaction Equivalency Theorem. Interaction has always been a defining (but expensive) component of all forms of education. In distance education, we have expanded the definition of interaction [...] 
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Administrator Account on September 05, 2011 20:20
As everyone knows by now, BYU has decided to end it’s relationship with Blackboard and is pursuing a course Jon Mott and I characterized as an open learning network – a group of smaller, specialized tools that can be used … Continue reading →
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Administrator Account on September 05, 2011 20:19 
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