Terry Anderson
@terguy
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Professor Emeritus Athabasca University
Edmonton
Joined January 2009
NDP Politician Charlie Angus on Trump's war on Canada " This is going to be a long and very hard road. People will suffer, and families will be hurt. There is no getting around it. There will be no winners in this battle. But Canadians are unified. Whereas Americans are divided."
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Myself, Rory McGreal, Peter Cookson & Serena Henderson publish - Twenty-Five Years of Innovation and Knowledge Sharing: The Legacy and Future of the International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (2025) at
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Nice to 25th Anniversary edition of IRRODL. Athabasca wrote a press release IRRODL story
athabascau.ca
Celebrating 25 years, Athabasca University’s IRRODL leads in open-access research, shaping the future of online learning.
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Resurrected Virtual Canuck to post about our recent trip to Jasper - After the Wildfire
virtualcanuck.ca
A trip to Jasper – After the Fire Every year in January, Susan and I take a short trip to celebrate our wedding anniversary- this year our 43rd! As often or not, we head for the Rocky Mount…
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This why Susan and I try very hard to go to British Columbia every "spring"
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DEI just perpetuates and is racist. see The Impact of DEI on College Campuses, by @FreeBlckThought
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This is an interesting analysis of the recent polarized debate on adding recognition in the constitution and an advisory "voice" for aboriginal Australians. I also like the model describing a process for dialogue on contentious issues.
scienceandfreedom.org
In his speech to the National Press Club last week, Australian National University vice-chancellor Brian Schmidt called on Australia to “enlighten up” – though not in those words. He reflected on...
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Call on Policy Makers to include Nuclear Energy in their Climate Policy - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/6NHI6lRZim via @CdnChange
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Congrats to the Soc. for Academic Freedom on a powerful response to the "woke takeover" of universities with 11 short articles in the latest newsletter. I am coming to believe that the post woke era and a new appreciation for academic freedom is coming see
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At last, a study from UBC showing a path forward to combat epidemic of homelessness in Canada . UBC researchers give $7500 cash and measure results. see
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My friend and collaborator @jondron has written a great new book - How Education Works: Teaching, Technology and Technique available for purchase or free download from AU Press. This book has been long in gestation, but worth the wait, don't miss it!
aupress.ca
In this engaging volume, Jon Dron views education, learning, and teaching through a technological lens that focuses on the parts we play in technologies, from language and pedagogies to computers...
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Happy Solstice to all. My wish as we start another trip around the sun, is that we learn to do a better job of caring for this spinning ball that we call home.
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Nice study - Asynch sections had higher course withdrawal rates but course outcomes were equivalent across formats, indicating students’ ability to learn in either format. see
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A belated Darwin's Day quote "In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.” ― Charles Darwin
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A positive cut on Chat GPT and its disruptive effect on education see
storymaps.arcgis.com
A call to reDesign what learning looks like
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Higher Educ article bemoans. "ChatGPT Is a Plague Upon Education". I'm wondering if the capacity to write a coherent short answer or undergrad level term paper, is as extinct as solving square roots without a calculator. see.
insidehighered.com
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Important review of the tsunami of articles on emergency remote learning. 75% make casual claims based on correlations. Effect of Covid lockdown hard to disentangle from education delivery and mental health . @steph_moore @veletsianos @Mkbtuc
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Canadians invented blended learning - on the school car in 1930's. Car and teacher arrived for a few days every few weeks on the rail line. Giving a 'balanced' mix of F2F, home schooling and print correspondence. see
cbc.ca
They were known as school cars and schools on wheels. Trains that brought the classroom to children in the most isolated communities of Northern Ontario. The experiment lasted 40 years. IDEAS...
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Fascinating CBC Ideas podcast from both students and teachers on the School Car Train, that provided "distance education" for 50 years in Northern Ontario see
cbc.ca
They were known as school cars and schools on wheels. Trains that brought the classroom to children in the most isolated communities of Northern Ontario. The experiment lasted 40 years. IDEAS...
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