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Category Archives: distance education

Overwhelmed by the abundance of choices

Thursday, September 13, 2007

I’m getting started on a couple of interesting instructional design projects right now. One is the design of an online computer science class for Grade 11 students. I’ve taught CompSci many times before and used a blended instructional model where the students and I were all in the same room, and all the resources and [...]

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Blogs as tools to support a Community of Inquiry

Sunday, December 3, 2006

I’m reading a paper right now entitled Comparing Weblogs to Threaded Discussion in Online Educational Contexts by Donna Cameron and Terry Anderson, published in the November edition of the International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning (thanks to Stephen for the pointer to this). When I write that I’m reading it right now, I [...]

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Podcasts as components of online courses

Thursday, August 11, 2005

Stephen pointed out a good analysis of the Podcast Theory Gap by Susan Smith Nash. She points out the implication of many theories in learning with regard to podcasts as part of online courses. But one point at the beginning of the article puzzles me: Although instructional designers do not often like to mention this, [...]

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Athabasca University Switching To Moodle

Saturday, June 11, 2005

I’ve heard about this through a number of sources, including Alec, who views this as I do – a signal that North American institutes of higher learning may start adopting open source software as part of their learning infrastructure. Alec puts it aptly: Leading innovative institutions will continue to switch to open source software once [...]

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