Fulbright in Hungary
I am excited to spend a semester at the Center for Teaching and Learning, Central European University (CEU), as a Fulbright Scholar this year! I look forward to collaborating with …
Online program rankings
We received exciting news as we began the spring 2017 semester. For the second year in a row, the University of Florida College of Education was ranked #1 for online …
Quality online teaching
Much of my work in 2016 has focused on quality in online education. I continue to primarily focus on online mentoring in graduate education, but continue with prior work on …
OER and MOOCs
Sometime ago I had the privilege of interviewing the German and Austrian conveners of the MOOC COER13 after it was first offered, about how they collaboratively designed the MOOC. What …
Dissertation guiding principles
The analysis of dissertations and the development of guiding principles for quality dissertations has been one of the most fun and productive projects that I have worked on with Dr. …
SISLT at Mizzou
Just returned from a stimulating visit with Dr. Isa Jahnke and her team at the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri. The LexMizzou (Learning …
Superior Accomplishment Award
Excited and honored to receive the Superior Accomplishment Award for Academic Personnel in Division Three at the University of Florida. I am grateful to all those who nominated me for …
The Learning Lab, Duisburg-Essen
I spent two weeks of my professional development leave this fall (2015) at the Learning Lab, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Drs. Michael Kerres, Michael Rehm and Tobias Hoelterhof organized my …
Completed dissertations!
This has been a busy year for dissertation mentoring with six of my doctoral candidates writing their final chapters. I have attempted small group mentoring online during the proposal stage …
DDD2015 at Umea, Sweden
Conferences are always fun and valuable because one meets old colleagues and collaborators and gets to know new ones. The DDD2015, Digital Didactical Designs conference at Umea University, Sweden on …