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Review from the Journal of Open, Flexible, and Distance Learning

Posted on November 27, 2015 by admin / 0 Comment

A kind review from Evelyn Lewis that describes the book well and that recommends it as “an extremely useful practitioner’s guide that will appeal to teach...

Teaching Crowds: Learning & Social Media

Jon Dron & Terry Anderson Now available in paperback from AU Press Also available from most major booksellers including e-book versions for Kindle...

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  • The physics of social spaces are not like the physics of physical spaces – Jon Dron's home page on The Typology of Social Forms
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  • Kafkaesque and Orwellian technology design – Jon Dron's home page on The Typology of Social Forms
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Some sites we like

  • elearnspace
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  • e4innovation
  • Dave’s educational blog
  • Iterating towards openness

RSS Jon Dron’s blog and bookmarks

  • Can GPT-3 write an academic paper on itself, with minimal human input? July 2, 2022
  • Weary, old, a little broken, but not letting go of the dream: edtech in the 21st Century June 30, 2022
  • Ernst & Young fined $100 million after employees cheated in exams June 29, 2022
  • #AthaU22 – may your journey be rich, gentle, and challenging June 17, 2022
  • Solving The Wrong Problems: Why Online Education Is and Must Be Different from In-Person Education – slides from my invited talk at ICEMI 2022 June 15, 2022
  • Interesting product: Bionic Reading May 19, 2022
  • The problematic metaphor of the environment in online learning (update: found a publisher!) May 17, 2022
  • Informal Learning in Digital Contexts: another chapter by me and @terguy from Springer’s Handbook of Open, Distance, and Digital Education April 19, 2022
  • New open access chapter by me and @terguy updating and refining our ‘three generations’ model of distance learning pedagogy April 12, 2022
  • English version of my 2021 paper, “Technology, technique, and culture in educational systems: breaking the iron triangle” April 5, 2022
  • So mouse jigglers are a thing now December 10, 2021
  • Requiem for an email address December 4, 2021
  • Nobody has ever learned anything at a distance, and no one ever goes to a distance institution December 3, 2021
  • Journal of Universal Rejection December 1, 2021
  • Gather is a remarkable retro but modern collaboration, cooperation, and socialization system: I really like it. November 10, 2021

RSS Terry Anderson’s blog

  • 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
  • Sorry, Riverdale is Full May 22, 2019

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