I have lived in Canada for over 16 years so I was surprised when, a few months ago, a conference-friend whom I had not seen for many years contacted me to ask whereabouts in Malaysia I lived. I...
Hard copies and e-book versions of How Education Works are now available, and they are starting to turn up in bookstores. The recommended retail price is CAD$40 but Amazon is selling the Kind...
About 10 years ago I submitted the first draft of a book called "How Learning Technologies Work" to AU Press. The title was a nod to David Byrne's wonderful book, "How Music Works " which, as my...
Dave Cormier is a wonderfully sideways-thinking writer, such as in this recent discussion of the myth of learning styles . Dave's post is not mainly about learning style theories, as such, but...
https://landing.athabascau.ca/blog/view/16852633/can-a-technology-be-true
The undergraduate students union, Canadian Union of Public Employees, and Athabasca University professional and faculty association have now all come out with strongly worded public statements pr...
You may have heard that the president of Athabasca University, Peter Scott, was replaced yesterday with Alex Clark, erstwhile Dean of the Faculty of Health Disciplines at AU. This was a complet...
I asked ChatGPT to write me a story about a robot teaching children to be human. This is what it came up with... > Once upon a time, in a far-off land, there lived a robot named >�...
There has been an interesting brief discussion on Twitter recently that has hinged around whether and how people are ‘good’ at learning. As Kelly Matthews observes , though, Twitter is not th...
https://landing.athabascau.ca/blog/view/16353837/some-meandering-thoughts-on-good-and-bad-learning
VOLUNTOURISM, GEOARBITRAGE, AND DIGITAL NOMADS Reasons to be Cheerful is among my first ports of call for news most mornings because I hate to start the day on a negative or banal note. The new...
The staff and students of AU are currently on tenterhooks, awaiting the results of the AU Board of Governors' briefly postponed deliberations on how it responds to the Albertan government's deman...