Enjoyed the intense discussions on online learning and its implications for professional adults and transformative learning during the European Distance Education Network’s 8th Research Workshop in Oxford, UK, 2014. In online professional programs where the educational design carefully scaffolds and aims for transformation, students should ideally be better able to make connections between practice and…
An invited talk at #OERde14 Die Zukunft freier Bildungsmaterialien. Open Educational Resources conference, Berlin, Germany led to my learning a lot about institutional, instructional, policy, and technical aspects of open educational resources (OER) in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. I met some great colleagues because the conference brought together people from different sectors with diverse perspectives,…
Best Paper Award for “Räumchen wechsle dich – Eigenräume und Raumwechsel beim Aufbau einer Online Community of Practice”, a paper in German co-authored with Dr. Patricia Arnold at the Gesellschaft für Medien in der Wissenschaft (GMW) 2014 conference in Zurich, Switzerland. This paper was about informal and formal learning spaces used to build a community…
Dr. Patrica Arnold from the Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany, presented these two papers that we co-authored: “E-Portfolios – Fostering systematic reflection in social work education.” in the learning and collaboration technologies category at the Human Computer Interaction International conference in June 2014 in Greece. This paper is about integrating e-portfolios in the educational…
I enjoyed working on this project about how ipads can be integrated in K12 classrooms with Dr. Isa Jahnke from the Department of Applied Educational Sciences at Umeå University, Sweden. “Digital Didactical Designs: Teachers’ Integration of iPads for Learning-Centered Processes” was published in the Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 30(3), 81-88.
Two recently published articles about measuring impact in online doctoral programs that highlight the ways in which doctoral students apply their learning to professional practice: The impact factor: A professional doctorate in Educational Technology co-authored with Dr. Kara Dawson in TechTrends, 58(4), 89-97 about the impact of an online doctoral program embedded in practice. “A…
Invited article in inaugural issue of Journal of Online Doctoral Education “Quality Considerations in the Design and Implementation of Online Doctoral Programs“. The article describes one approach to designing and implementing an online doctoral program based on the Community of Inquiry framework (Garrison, Anderson & Archer, 2000) and provides successful examples and data from the…
TechTrends Special Issue in July 2014 on “Online and Hybrid Doctoral Programs in Educational Technology” edited by Dr. Dawson and Dr. Kumar. Articles from colleagues around the nation and in Finland about various aspects of program design, implementation, lessons learned and impact: Michael Kung and TJ Logan provide a useful table as an review of…
TPACK SIG Best Paper Award for “Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK)-Based Course Design in Preservice Social Studies Education” co-authored with Dr. Mark Hart at the Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education (SITE) 2014 conference.
A conference paper of mine from the European MOOC summit in 2014 was published in E-learning papers: Arnold, P., Kumar, S., Thillosen, A. & Ebner, M. (2014). Offering cMOOCs collaboratively: The COER13 experience from the convenors’ perspective. This project gave me the opportunity to collaborate on qualitative research about how committed and passionate educators across…
