CC licensed photo by Magic Madzik
This summer has gone by faster than I hoped it would! Highlights included:
- work and pleasure trips lasting a few days in Lund (Sweden), Copenhagen (Denmark), Frankfurt (Germany), Larnaca (Cyprus),
- three days of fun and productivity in Madison, WI for the 26th annual Distance Teaching & Learning conference
- the release of Emerging Technologies in Distance Education
- my summer course taught online via ELGG (which seems to have been received extremely well)
- an interview with Mark Parry at the Chronicle of Higher Education on social and participatory online learning
- and writing a paper with Royce Kimmons, one of our PhD students (information on this coming shortly…)
I am however looking forward to the Fall semester (which starts on Wednesday). Our new students have arrived and I am teaching the introduction to instructional design class that they are taking – I’m very excited about that class and look forward to working with brilliant minds to pursue learning innovations! The fall semester promises to be a busy one though as I am presenting at 2 conferences, giving keynotes at 2 other ones, and launching an adventure learning project in the Sociology department…. while working on a couple research papers.
How’s that for a 4-month summary update?! More detailed posts will follow, but, for now, you can’t complain that I haven’t kept you updated :).
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