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    • Chapter 6. Learning in Sets
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    • Chapter 8. Stories From the Field
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Connected but alone

Posted on December 18, 2017 by admin / 0 Comment

An interesting student evaluation of a chapter of our book at http://www.bahula.ca/2017/05/teaching-crowds-connected-but-alone/ which compares our (initially an...

Chapter 9. Issues and Challenges in Educational Uses of Social Software

Download:  Chapter 9. Issues and Challenges in Educational Uses of Social Software Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;T...

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  • Connected but alone
  • Interesting application of the net/set/group model to Google apps
  • Review in UoT Quarterly
  • Commentary by Michael Moore on the AJDE review of Teaching Crowds
  • Review from the American Journal of Distance Education

Recent Comments

  • Unit 3 Readings: Reflection – Jessica's Blog on Transactional distance in groups, nets and sets
  • The physics of social spaces are not like the physics of physical spaces – Jon Dron's home page on The Typology of Social Forms
  • Echoes and polarization in Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter: it's not just about the algorithms – Jon Dron's home page on The Typology of Social Forms
  • Kafkaesque and Orwellian technology design – Jon Dron's home page on The Typology of Social Forms
  • Natalie Cassano on Chapter 3. A Typology of Social Forms for Learning

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Some sites we like

  • elearnspace
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  • Donald Clark Plan B
  • Stephen’s Web
  • Stories to TEL
  • Learning with ‘e’s
  • e4innovation
  • Dave’s educational blog
  • Iterating towards openness

RSS Jon Dron’s blog and bookmarks

  • 10 minute chats on Generative AI – a great series, now including an interview with me September 11, 2023
  • Research, Writing, and Creative Process in Open and Distance Education: Tales from the Field | Open Book Publishers August 20, 2023
  • Cognitive prostheses and the future of the human race August 19, 2023
  • Bob Dron, 1955-2023 July 16, 2023
  • The artificial curriculum July 15, 2023
  • Look what just arrived on my doorstep! #howeducationworks from @au_press is now available in print and e-book formats June 29, 2023
  • A decade of unwriting: the life history of "How Education Works" June 24, 2023
  • Technological distance – my slides from OTESSA ’23 June 2, 2023
  • Can a technology be true? March 16, 2023
  • View of Speculative Futures on ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI): A Collective Reflection from the Educational Landscape March 13, 2023
  • Technology, Teaching, and the Many Distances of Distance Learning | Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning February 17, 2023
  • Athabasca University’s major unions condemn the sacking of Peter Scott. Meanwhile…. February 10, 2023
  • Petition · Athabasca University – Oppose direct political interference in universities · Change.org February 6, 2023
  • Athabasca University bids a deeply reluctant farewell to Peter Scott in the vilest attack yet by the Albertan government February 3, 2023
  • My keynote slides for Confluence 2023 – Heads in the clouds: being human in the age of cloud computing January 20, 2023

RSS Terry Anderson’s blog

  • Dulcimer Video April 20, 2023
  • Disruptive Critical Theory Strikes Canadian Unitarians May 9, 2022
  • Interaction in Distance and Online Education: A Research Review March 16, 2022
  • My Home Solar Finances August 26, 2021
  • Why I swim in a fishbowl January 23, 2021
  • Emergency Distance Education March 13, 2020
  • Most Eco Solstice Tree December 23, 2019
  • A visit to the University of South Africa (UNISA) 2019 December 17, 2019
  • Guest Post – The Evolving Backpacker September 25, 2019
  • Type S (social) Interaction Revisited June 26, 2019

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