I finalized my contract today to work on the instructional evaluation team for the RealWorld – InWorld NASA Engineering Design Challenge. The RW phase involves teams of grade 9 to 12 learners and facilitators working on design solutions to problems associated with the James Webb Space Telescope. In the IW phase, teams of 3 to […]
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I didn’t know it before now, but dissertating isn’t just a made-up word that I have been tossing around today as I yell to the world that I began collecting data for my dissertation research. I can’t get into a lot of details as the folks I am observing and surveying this semester may stop
We tend to get our undies in a bundle over learner-learner; learner-content; learner-teacher interactions, but this issue of the learner-institution transaction / interaction deserves a lot more attention. Last night at ODU, we had our new student orientation with doctoral students coming into the program this semester (held on Adobe Connect with participants all over
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This summer, the Association for Educational Communication and Technology (AECT) sponsored a Distance Learning Symposium held at the Indiana University campus in Bloomington, IN. While presenters will be turning their papers and presentations into chapters for an upcoming book, for now (how long?) they have posted the symposium papers for open review. I attended and
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