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Is Online Learning Cheaper? 31 Jul 2013 | 10:15 pm
My friend Tom Carey and David Trick have complied an excellent summary report on costs and benefits of online education, with context and recommendations for the Ontraio public higher education system...
How much time does it take to teach online? 24 Jul 2013 | 12:07 am
I’ve long been fascinated by studies on time factors in online learning. The issues of teacher time are especially relevant given the high cost of teachers, the threat to the profession, MOOCs offerin...
MOOCs and Distance Education Institutions 24 Jun 2013 | 02:29 pm
A few months ago I was asked to do a short piece for the Commonwealth of Learning on MOOCs. It is posted on their web site, but I thought I would post it here as well, with some small updates. Promise...
Two Days, three Museums, two Cathedrals and 576 Kms on the Costa Del Azaharhone 28 May 2013 | 02:27 pm
This is my first blog post from my 2 month position as a visiting professor at the open University of Catalonia (UOC). UOC is a 100% distance University (like Athabasca U.) but founded not as a corres...
A Publishing Primer for Education Grad students 24 May 2013 | 02:52 pm
Ask any academic, and they will get into a long discourse about the value of publishing scholarly work, the politics of doing it, the challenges and the outlets. Although you haven’t asked, I’d like ...
God’s Hotel: A doctor, a hospital and a pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine 10 Apr 2013 | 04:14 am
A book review: I stumbled onto this book in the public library and I guess the title first attracted me. But fear not, the book does no proselytizing and contains no fantasy stories, nor stories of r...
MOOCs as community?? 9 Apr 2013 | 12:25 am
Here at Athabasca University we’ve finally begun serious talk about our approach to MOOCs. We are working through two models, trying to decipher the pros and cons of each or both. These are: Run one o...
Business Models for Online Education 18 Mar 2013 | 09:18 pm
The latest issue of the Online Journal of Distance Education Research has an article that tires to define a “3rd” university model. Rubin, B. (2013). University Business Models and Online Practices: A...
Buddhism and Thailand 28 Jan 2013 | 09:58 pm
This month, I enrolled in a 4 week course on Buddhism led by a member of our Unitarian Congregation here in Edmonton. I’ve always been interested in Eastern religions and the opportunity of this cours...
“Connectivying” your course 19 Dec 2012 | 03:43 am
The article that Jon Dron and I published in IRRODL Anderson, T., & Dron, J. (2011). Three generations of distance education pedagogy. International Review of Research on Distance and Open Learning, 1...
