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Hiding in plain sight – Feminist perspectives of distance learning
Sometimes you read a post that is so insightful that it shifts your entire way of thinking and seeing. I felt this way when I first read Cheryl Hodgkinson-Williams and Henry Trotter’s Social Justice Framework for open education and Sarah Lambert’s Social Justice Aligned Definition of Open Education . Both of these articles helped me push through some of the things I was struggling with in relation to open education, namely how do you talk about the relationship between language, power, and knowledge (and colonial consequences) in relation to the goodwill gestures of putting OER out into the world. So when I interviewed this year for a bucket list job…
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A few moments from ICDE 2017 #worldconf17
I skipped Open Ed this year to attend the ICDE World Conference in Toronto. The last time I attended ICDE was eight years ago in Maastricht. I brought my daughter, who was 5. She got sick in the bathroom 15 minutes before my presentation, then sat on the floor and did crafts while I presented. (Somebody took a photo of her which still lives in the conference archives. Check out that mom-purse full of kid stuff). Of the things that I remember, the conference was held in a very nice venue but there was no food at all for the four days. I remember being impressed by how it was…
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Book Review: Flexible higher education: International pioneers reflect
I was asked to do this book review about a year and a half ago, and only finally got around to it. In some ways, that’s a good thing–I would have probably had different things to say about it at that time. My response to this book is very much influenced by the ed tech conversations of the last few years, so even though this book came out three years ago and has already had many other reviews, it’s kind of fun to read it and think about it in the current context. It’s been submitted to the Journal of Distance Education, and it should appear in the next issue.…
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Looking backward to look forward
I hadn’t really intended on a post that summarized the past 365 days or made predictions for the future, since others have done it so well already. These posts have caused me to nonetheless reflect a bit on my own ed-tech moments of 2009 and the inevitable ups and downs that come with the field. In 2009 I felt like I became a bit of a student of Distance Education and Ed-tech history, since many of the current conversations seemed to me to be echoes of the past. These are few that stood out for me. Open Educational Resources–ideology, movement, or simple sharing? As excited as I am about everything…
