In keeping with the intoxicating open and democratic spirit in which Inge de Waard has crafted the MobiMOOC course this year (polling on topics, etc.), I have decided to try …
Emotive Vocabulary in MOOCs and Participant Retention: A New Article and Getting Translated in China
I thought I might for a second try to throw the whole post into that title. Either way, two things to mention in this post. The first, a new publication. …
Participatory design for MobiMOOC: call for participation
In the spirit of open learning and MOOCs, with all their emphasis on openness, collaboration, even transparency, it seems natural enough to extend that thought of openness all the way …
MOOC Learning Design: What does participatory design look like in open learning?
Constructivist is what constructivist explores I am in the process of constructing a week of activities on ICT4D (and Mobile for Development-M4d) for the next installment of the MobiMOOC scheduled …
Mobile Learning and the Practice of History in Higher Education (Part 1): Questions and Assumptions
This post represents the first of many posts outlining a particularly large research project/proposal I am working on currently (and have been for about the past year) discussing the role …
Giving thanks for 2011 for professional & academic success, love; greatly looking forward to 2012
I would be lying if I said 2011 was uneventful. It had the peaks and valleys of a year from my youth precisely at a time when I thought these …
Using mLearning and MOOCs to understand chaos, emergence, and complexity in education: a new paper by MobiMOOC Research Team in IRRODL
1046-8898-2-PB.pdf Download this file I am particularly honored to see our paper published in The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) co-authored with the MobiMOOC Research …