Monthly Archives: January 2013

Relational Pedagogy and Teacher Personae Online

Posted on January 28, 2013 by friesenn

Claire Major from the U. of Alabama recently requested a short description for her forthcoming book, Teaching Online: Understanding and Managing Instructional Changes when Teaching with the Internet (forthcoming from JHU Press). She asked about the connection between the notion … Continue reading →

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MOOCs, OER and PLAR: Prior Learning Assessment for Open Ed.

Posted on January 24, 2013 by friesenn

  Just got this open publication, co-authored with Christine Wihak, published in the journal Open Praxis. Here’s abstract, etc: Recent developments in OER and MOOCs (Open Educational Resources and Massive Open Online Courses) have raised questions as to how learners … Continue reading →

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CanCore Archived – & some thoughts

Posted on January 6, 2013 by friesenn

I’ve revived the site for the CanCore Learning Object Metadata Initiative –complete with all the guidelines documents and updates to 2007. I’ve received the odd, periodic request for the guidelines in the last few years. It probably is a good … Continue reading →

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