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View article: Technological Distance: A New Way of Conceptualizing the “Distance” in Distance Learning
Technological Distance: A New Way of Conceptualizing the “Distance” in Distance Learning Open
This paper presents the concept of technological distance, which describes a gap between technologies (broadly defined to include methods, tools, principles, and processes) available for a learner to learn, and those needed to complete tha…
View article: The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future
The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future Open
This manifesto critically examines the unfolding integration of Generative AI (GenAI), chatbots, and algorithms into higher education, using a collective and thoughtful approach to navigate the future of teaching and learning. GenAI, while…
View article: The Human Nature of Generative AIs and the Technological Nature of Humanity: Implications for Education
The Human Nature of Generative AIs and the Technological Nature of Humanity: Implications for Education Open
This paper analyzes the ways that the widespread use of generative AIs (GAIs) in education and, more broadly, in contributing to and reflecting the collective intelligence of our species, can and will change us. Methodologically, the paper…
View article: The Human Nature of Generative AIs and the Technological Nature of Humanity: Implications for Education
The Human Nature of Generative AIs and the Technological Nature of Humanity: Implications for Education Open
This paper applies a theoretical model to analyze the ways that widespread use of generative AIs (GAIs) in education and, more broadly, in contributing to and reflecting the collective intelligence of our species, can and will change us. T…
View article: Research, Writing, and Creative Process in Open and Distance Education
Research, Writing, and Creative Process in Open and Distance Education Open
This collection of reflective essays is a treasure trove of advice, reflection and hard-won experience from experts in the field of open and distance education. Each chapter offers tried-and-tested advice for nascent academic writers, deli…
View article: 3. On Being Written
3. On Being Written Open
This chapter explores the joy of research as a journey of discovery through writing, driven not by the need for outputs but through a genuine curiosity to inform decision-making and change. To publish because you practice, not because othe…
View article: How Education Works: Teaching, Technology, and Technique
How Education Works: Teaching, Technology, and Technique Open
View article: Technology, Teaching, and the Many Distances of Distance Learning
Technology, Teaching, and the Many Distances of Distance Learning Open
The “distance” in “distance learning”, however it is defined, normally refers to a gap between a learner and their teacher(s), typically in a formal context. In this paper I take a slightly different view. The paper begins with an argument…
View article: Speculative futures on ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence (AI): A collective reflection from the educational landscape
Speculative futures on ChatGPT and generative artificial intelligence (AI): A collective reflection from the educational landscape Open
While ChatGPT has recently become very popular, AI has a long history and philosophy. This paper intends to explore the promises and pitfalls of the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) AI and potentially future technologies by adoptin…
View article: Pedagogical Paradigms in Open and Distance Education
Pedagogical Paradigms in Open and Distance Education Open
Building on earlier work that identified historical paradigm shifts in open and distance learning, this chapter is concerned with analyzing the three broad pedagogical paradigms – objectivist, subjectivist, and complexivist – that have cha…
View article: Informal Learning in Digital Contexts
Informal Learning in Digital Contexts Open
Governments, business leaders, educators, students, and parents realize the need to inculcate a culture of lifelong learning – learning that spans geography, time, and lifespan. This learning has both formal and informal components. In thi…
View article: On the Misappropriation of Spatial Metaphors in Online Learning
On the Misappropriation of Spatial Metaphors in Online Learning Open
In online educational systems, teachers often replicate pedagogical methods, and online institutions replicate systems and structures used by their in-person counterparts, the only purpose of which was to solve problems created by having t…
View article: Investigating the Effects of Computer-Generated Contextual Landmarks on Short-Term Recall of E-Texts
Investigating the Effects of Computer-Generated Contextual Landmarks on Short-Term Recall of E-Texts Open
E-texts have many advantages over their paper counterparts, especially when they are reflowable and available as open educational resources (OERs). Unfortunately, research suggests that e-texts are, on the whole, less memorable than p-text…
View article: Investigating the Effects of Computer-Generated Contextual Landmarks on Short-Term Recall of E-Texts
Investigating the Effects of Computer-Generated Contextual Landmarks on Short-Term Recall of E-Texts Open
E-texts have many advantages over their paper counterparts, especially when they are reflowable and available as open educational resources (OERs). Unfortunately, research suggests that e-texts are, on the whole, less memorable than p-text…
View article: Learning, Technology, and Technique
Learning, Technology, and Technique Open
To be human is to be a user, a creator, a participant, and a co-participant in a richly entangled tapestry of technologies – from computers to pedagogical methods - that make us who we are as much as our genes. The uses we make of technolo…
View article: Informal Learning in Digital Contexts
Informal Learning in Digital Contexts Open
Governments, business leaders, educators, students, and parents realize the need to inculcate a culture of lifelong learning – learning that spans geography, time, and lifespan. This learning has both formal and informal components. In thi…
View article: Pedagogical Paradigms in Open and Distance Education
Pedagogical Paradigms in Open and Distance Education Open
Building on earlier work that identified historical paradigm shifts in open and distance learning, this chapter is concerned with analyzing the three broad pedagogical paradigms – objectivist, subjectivist, and complexivist – that have cha…
View article: Soft is hard and hard is easy: learning technologies and social media
Soft is hard and hard is easy: learning technologies and social media Open
Questo articolo riguarda principalmente la natura delle tecnologie per apprendere, con una particolare attenzione ai social media. Muovendo dalla definizione fornita da W. Brian Arthur delle tecnologie come un insieme di fenomeni orchestra…
View article: Smart learning environments, and not so smart learning environments: a systems view
Smart learning environments, and not so smart learning environments: a systems view Open
View article: Tecnología para el aprendizaje a través de tres generaciones de pedagogía a distancia mediada por tecnología
Tecnología para el aprendizaje a través de tres generaciones de pedagogía a distancia mediada por tecnología Open
Este artículo se deriva de un trabajo previo,Three generations of distance education pedagogy,(Anderson y Dron, en prensa). Detallalas tecnologías y resultados sinérgicos deluso de pedagogía efectiva en combinacióncon tecnologías …
View article: MOOCifying Courses: Delivery of a MOOC to Enhance University Course Activities
MOOCifying Courses: Delivery of a MOOC to Enhance University Course Activities Open
Since 2012 MOOCs have been heralded as a new way of learning outside of formal university programs of study and there has been much speculation regarding their impact. While MOOCs have provided millions of global learners with access to co…
View article: p-Learning’s unwelcome legacy
p-Learning’s unwelcome legacy Open
Formal teaching of adults has evolved in a context defined, initially, by the constraints of physical boundaries. Classroom walls directly entail timetables, norms and rules of behaviour, social segregation into organized groups and, notab…
View article: Seeking Connectivist freedom and Instructivist safety in a MOOC
Seeking Connectivist freedom and Instructivist safety in a MOOC Open
Many MOOCs rely on instructivist pedagogies, in which teaching follows a top-down transmission model. Whether they follow a behaviourist, cognitivist or constructivist path, teachers guide or dictate activities as well as provide informati…
View article: Embracing Social Media: A Practical Guide to Manage Risk and Leverage Opportunity (Author: Kristin Magette).
Embracing Social Media: A Practical Guide to Manage Risk and Leverage Opportunity (Author: Kristin Magette). Open
Book Details: Embracing Social Media: A Practical Guide to Manage Risk and Leverage Opportunity Written by Kristin Magette 2014, 116 Pages, Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers ISBN 978-1-475-81328-9 (Hardback) 978-1-475-81329-6 (P…
View article: SEEKING CONNECTIVIST FREEDOM AND INSTRUCTIVIST SAFETY IN A MOOC
SEEKING CONNECTIVIST FREEDOM AND INSTRUCTIVIST SAFETY IN A MOOC Open
View article: Social Interaction in Self-paced Distance Education
Social Interaction in Self-paced Distance Education Open
In this paper we present a case study of a self-paced university course that was originally designed to support independent, self-paced study at distance. We developed a social media intervention, in design-based research terms, that allow…