| A couple of times a year I update this page with longer pieces written as peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, or presentations. Enjoy! |
| 2004 |
| Scalability and Sociability in Online Learning Environments HTML |
| Supporting Student Autonomy Online HTML |
| Commentary on Downes’ Resource Profiles PDF |
| IMS/SSP Comes So Close HTML |
| 2003 |
| A beginner’s guide to blogs. HTML |
| OSOSS – Crisis / Response. HTML |
| Learning objects: difficulties and opportunities. PDF |
| A brief history of the blog. In A. Kovalchick & K. Dawson (Eds.) Educational Technology: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. PDF |
| Keeping the Baby and the Bath Water. HTML |
| 2002 |
| Online self-organizing social systems: The decentralized future of online learning. Quarterly Review of Distance Education. (With Erin Brewer). PDF |
| A proposed measure of discussion activity in threaded discussion spaces. Working Draft PDF |
| Learning objects need instructional design theory. In A. Rossett (Ed.) The 2001/2002 ASTD Distance Learning Yearbook. New York: McGraw-Hill. PDF |
| Learning objects — a definition. In A. Kovalchick & K. Dawson (Eds.) Educational Technology: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. PDF |
| CAREER Grant – A mediated action study of learning object use in online learning communities. PDF |
| The coming collision between the automated instruction and learning communities camps of online learning research. Working Draft DOC |
| Component Display Theory. In A. Kovalchick & K. Dawson (Eds.) Educational Technology: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. PDF |
| OpenCourseWare. In A. Kovalchick & K. Dawson (Eds.) Educational Technology: An Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO. PDF |
| A unified design framework for learning objects and educational discourse. PDF |
| 2001 |
| EduCommons. (With Mimi Recker and Andy Gibbons). PDF |
| An empirical estimate of student growth in beginning music theory: Results and pedagogical implications. (With Leo Welch). PDF |
| About the RLO strategy white paper. HTML |
| Connecting learning objects to instructional design theory: A definition a metaphor, and a taxonomy. In D. A. Wiley (Ed.), The Instructional Use of Learning Objects. Bloomington, IN: Association for Educational Communications and Technology. DOC |
| "Web-based instruction" should never have happened (oh, never mind – it’s dead anyway). Tech Trends PDF |
| What is the Internet ran like the U.S. public education system. Tech Trends PDF |
| The teacher’s outrageous claim to intellectual property. Tech Trends HTML |
| Collaboratively filtering learning objects. In D. A. Wiley (Ed.), The Instructional Use of Learning Objects. Bloomington, IN: Association for Educational Communications and Technology. (With Mimi Recker and Andy Walker). DOC |
| A non-authoritative educational metadata ontology for filtering and recommending learning objects. Journal of Interactive Learning Environments. The Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger. (With Mimi Recker). PDF |
| 2000 |
| In defense of the by-hand assembly of learning objects. (With Mimi Recker and Andy Gibbons). PDF |
| A reformulation of learning object granularity. (With Mimi Recker and Andy Gibbons). PDF |
| An exploratory study of the statistical and educational implications of violations of the assumptions of parametric analysis techniques. (With Vic Bunderson and Jim Olsen). PDF |
| When worlds collide. PDF |
| Learning object design and sequencing theory. Dissertation PDF |
| Getting students interested: An integrated approach to Keller’s ARCS model of motivational design. Instructional Design Project PDF |
| Structured metadata spaces. Journal of Internet Cataloging. 3(2/3), pp. 263 – 277. Binghamton, NY: Haworth. (With Tom Wason). PDF |
| 1999 |
| Three common properties of efficient online instructional support systems. ALN Magazine. (With Joe South, Julene Bassett, Laurie Nelson, Larry Seawright, Trent Peterson, and David Monson). HTML |
| The post-LEGO learning object. PDF |
| So what do I do with a learning object?. PDF |
| Metadata mall. HTML |
| Dynamic directory structures. PDF |
| An intelligent method for searching metadata spaces. Epistemology Course Final Paper PDF |
| My, what an intelligent tool you have!. IMS White Paper HTML |
| Why semantic structures?. IMS White Paper HTML |
| 1998 |
| Towards a definition of fundamentality. HTML |
| It’s… fundamentality 2.0!. HTML |
| Iterative formation of learning environments based on self-similar primedial objects (for dummies). (With Laurie Nelson, David Monson, and Joe South). HTML |