Author Archives: friesenn

Foucault on the Lecture

Posted on October 18, 2012 by friesenn

Just came across this excellent interview with Michel Foucault from Partisan Review way back in ’71. Foucault articulates a rather original position on the lecture as a pedagogical form. He defends it for being as at least “crudely” honest about the … Continue reading →

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Forgotten Connections: Forthcoming from Routledge!

Posted on October 10, 2012 by friesenn

I was pleased to learn this morning that Routledge has agreed to publish Forgotten Connections: On Culture and Upbringing! This is great news for a project that I’ve been working on (off and on) for a couple of years. This … Continue reading →

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Article for Handbook of Distance Education

Posted on October 8, 2012 by friesenn

Alex Kuskis and I recently completed the final revisions to this article on “interaction” for the 3rd edition of the Handbook of Distance Education (proof version only). We worked on emphasizing the historical rooting of the concept in cybernetics and the … Continue reading →

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Where does "Blended" End & Virtual Begin?

Posted on September 1, 2012 by friesenn

Just finished a paper that tries to draw a fine line between blended learning and fully online delivery. Even though “blended learning” was coined in the run-up to the dot-com frenzy at the turn of the century, it didn’t acquire … Continue reading →

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Reviews are in for: Place of the Classroom & Space of the Screen

Posted on August 9, 2012 by friesenn

Just got a couple of excellent reviews for my 2011 book, one from the British Journal of Educational Technology, and the other from Erziehungswissenschaftliche Revue (Educational Studies Review). First from BJET: “Friesen argues, tenaciously and knowledgeably, in favour of a different … Continue reading →

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Ludwig Wittgenstein and Klaus Mollenhauer’s Forgotten Connections

Posted on July 23, 2012 by friesenn

A recently completed paper (.pdf): Klaus Mollenhauer’s Forgotten Connections: On Culture and Upbringing is internationally regarded as a key post-war text in the philosophy of education. This paper introduces this text (translated by the presenter) by focusing on its highly … Continue reading →

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Credentialing for Open Education

Posted on July 20, 2012 by friesenn

Just finished a co-authored piece with Christine Wihak on using PLAR (Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition) in the open education space. It turns out that some of the more popular ideas and practices in open, personalized learning, such as badges, personal … Continue reading →

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Forget Twitchspeed & Twitter; Confronting “Boys’ Crisis” via Dance & Motion

Posted on July 17, 2012 by friesenn

I’m a proud as heck of these two students, my thesis supervisees,  whose excellent MEd research is featured in this article in the local paper. Jennifer Swan-Rogers (pictured here) and Tannis Tate (whose abstract is below) undertook case studies of … Continue reading →

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Silence in the Classroom: One Student's Experience

Posted on July 13, 2012 by friesenn

[slideshare id=13622450&doc=onestudentsexperienceof-120712192640-phpapp02] Here’s the slides (above) and the text (download pdf) that I had the pleasure of presenting in support of one of my students, Merilee Hamelock. In many classrooms, evaluation of learning relies on easily observable, easily measurable student … Continue reading →

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Learning Theory as Instructional Technology – or "the Animal Method of Learning"

Posted on June 28, 2012 by friesenn

Just got a paper accepted for a collection (edited by Neil Selwyn & Kari Facer) on The Politics of Education & Technology forthcoming from Palgrave. The focus of my contribution is on the technological, instrumentalist character of learning theories that … Continue reading →

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