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Assessing transformative learning

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 …

Open educational resources

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 …

GMW 2014 Best Paper Award

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 …

E-portfolios and threshold crossings

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 …

Article on iPad integration

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. …

Online program impact

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 …

Journal of Online Doctoral Education

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 …

Special Issue in TechTrends

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 …

SITE 2014: TPACK SIG Paper Award

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 …

Publication on cMOOC design

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: …