By Tony Bates, on June 2nd, 2010
Science Daily (2010) Empathy: College students don’t have as much as they used to, study finds Science Daily, May 29
Some people have bad hair days; I have bad research days, i.e. days when bad research dominates the news headlines (the media are as much to blame as the researchers). It started this morning [...]
By Tony Bates, on May 3rd, 2010
Lloyd, M. (2010) 18 Web 2.0 tools for instruction Campus Technology, April 28
This very useful article asks two experts, Sarah Robbins (aka Intellagirl), of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University-Bloomington, and Mark Frydenberg of Bentley University, to pick their favourite web 2.0 tools for instruction. Here’s their choices (read the article [...]
By Tony Bates, on April 19th, 2010
Cleveland-Innes, M. and Garrison, R. (eds.) 2010 An Introduction to Distance Education: Understanding Teaching and Learning in a New Era New York/Abingdon UK: Routledge
This book is essentially a collection of essays by mainly Canadian authors, although there are also authors from the USA, Australia, New Zealand and Spain.
Chapters
The book is organized [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 31st, 2010
IRRODL (the International Review of Research on Open and Distance Learning) is now requesting contributions for peer review and possible publication in an upcoming special issue.
Special Edition: Connectivism: Design and delivery of social networked learning
Edited by George Siemens (Athabasca University) and GrĂ¡inne Conole (Open University)
The special issue will have its main [...]
By Tony Bates, on March 29th, 2010
Graham Attwell is running a thoughtful min-series of blogs on this topic. See:
Attwell, G. (2009) e-portfolios-WTF Pontydysgu: Bridge to Learning, September 4
Attwell, G. (2010) Re-thinking e-portfolios Pontydysgu: Bridge to Learning, March 14
Attwell, G. (2010) More notes on e-Portfolios, PLEs, Web 2.0 and social software Pontydysgu: Bridge to Learning, March 16
Attwell, [...]
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