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Social Network Analysis in distance learning research?

I have been remembering lately about a research methodology I learned about once called social network analysis (SNA), which is a popular form of analysis in sociology, organizational development, and...

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The dilemma of this BlogTracks

When we originally read the CFP for the BlogTracks style of presentation, it appeared that the point was to blog about the AECT conference itself, during or after sessions we attend, so that there was...

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Are you a different personality online?

I speak Spanish after having spent a couple of years on an LDS mission in Ecuador, and I was talking to a colleague of mine a couple of years ago who also spoke Spanish. He is more of a quiet, private...

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Metacognition in online learning

To continue reviewing some of the literature about cognitive aspects of technology-enhanced distance learning environments (TEDLEs), I will write briefly about some of the things I have learned about...

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The Generations of Distance Education

I have been experimenting with Flock as my browser the last few months. There are some things I love, but it is still in an obvious, true beta form (as contrasted with other, unnamed, corporations who...

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Can we learn design ideas from popular social networking sites?

Online communities of learning do not work. This, at least, seems to be the message of many researchers who have studied online communities or computer-supported collaborative learning (Hewitt, 2005;...

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BlogTracks Summary for AECT Presentation

The time has come to give the face-to-face presentation of the activity on this blog as part of the AECT 2006 convention BlogTracks. And as far as the activity outside of my own writing, I can report...

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BlogTracks meeting times

Our face-to-face portion of the BlogTracks presentation will be tomorrow (Thursday) in the Pavilion room at 9:15 a.m. Come join us! technorati tags:BlogTracks, AECT, AECT, AECT2006 Blogged with Flock

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Enabling a Successful BlogTracks Presentation

This is part 2 of my summary posts in preparation for the face-to-face BlogTracks presentation. In part 1, I summarized what I have blogged about in this space in the last couple of months. In this...

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AECT Keynote: John Couch, VP for Apple Education

I wanted to try and get this out yesterday, but had a busy, fun day! Too much fun stuff going on, and didn’t get around to filling out my notes. As it is, this is still largely in note form because I’m...

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