Quest 5 “Many BYU faculty already openly share their syllabi and other course materials on personal websites, through iTunesU, and through other mechanisms … Find as many of the open educational resources being shared by BYU faculty as you can…” It seems to me that discoverability is really going to be the ultimate make-or-break hinge [...]
(It is at this time that I would like to make a plug for Creative Commons licenses. Thank you.) I think I’ve talked more about copyright this semester than at any other time in my entire life. This is not surprising, however, as I would guess that I am like most people in many respects, [...]
A while back I ranted about Google’s CAPTCHA human detection implementation, and how it is practically impossible sometimes to sign up for a Google Account. But the moment of truth arrived when I listened to the accessibility recording of the CAPTCHA. In case you forgot, I can summarize it with one word — psychotropic. (Usual [...]
Up to this point in the course we’ve done a lot of talking. We’ve had great discussions about the history of the open education movement, usage rights, sustainability models, reusability, remixability–even hippies!–and just about everything in between. But now it’s time to get to work! No more talking! This is going to be fun. So, [...]
Article Findings Dalsgaard, C., & Mathiasen, H. (2008). Self-organized learning environments and university students’ use of social software: A systems theoretical perspective. International Journal of Instructional Technology and Distance Learning, 5(2). Retrieved January 12, 2009, from http://www.itdl.org/Journal/Feb_08/article01.htm. Finding: “The study of the two project groups suggests that a conference system offering asynchronous discussion forums and [...]
Aaron’s Rogue Quest 1 “Carefully review the following sites that publish open educational resources, noting the types of media predominantly used by each site and any site characteristics that seem unique. Pay close attention to the quality of reusability exhibited by the media from each site. Be certain to review a sufficient sample of courses [...]
So, here is a brief synthesis of the theoretical foundations from the 10 articles I chose. Constructivist Also, Garrison was quoted a number of times in the context of “communities of inquiry.” Several of the papers didn’t really boast of anything that could be considered a theoretical foundation. Or if they did, they sure didn’t [...]
This post originally started out as a comment reply to a comment from Charles in reply to this post. (Sorry, couldn’t think of a better way to write that.) It eventually became long enough to become a post of its own, and thus worth more points for my Distance Ed class. (YEAH!) “In my view [...]
While reading several of Moore’s descriptions of his own Transactional Distance Theory (hereafter TDT), I found myself saying unusually large numbers of “yeps” and “uh-huhs”. This is troubling to me, only because I tend to think that sometimes I do not read academic literature with a sufficiently critical eye. However, based on my observations of [...]
Synthesis Data Collection 7 Studies, 3 Theory 4 out of 7 studies used surveys / questionnaires 3 out of 7 studies used online postings and transcriptions 2 out of 7 studies used test / assessment data Data Analysis Quantitative Descriptive Inferential Qualitative Discourse analysis Thematic analysis Triangulation Mixed Methods
