USU Open Education Conference

Our annual conference (which several of you attended last year, thanks!) is back. Advancing the Effectiveness and Sustainability of Open Education will take place September 28 – 30, 2005 in beautiful Logan, Utah. I’m *really* excited about the conference this year. A few highlights: Keynote speakers include John Seely Brown (Social Life of Information, etc.) … Read more

OpenContent Update

So we’ve been updating all sorts of things lately. OpenContent.org has been laying more or less unproductive for a while, so it seemed like time to update it as well. OpenContent.org is now a mini-portal into several collections of open educational resources and the discussion forums around those. Have a look around, and if you … Read more

Writings

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 … Read more