Open and blended histories

Thanks to Stephen Downes, yet again, for pointing out Terry Anderson's excellent piece on Open, distance, e-learning and other name confusion in his always useful Virtual Canuk blog. As Terry noted there has been a lot written on the subject. I was reminded of two pieces of work. Robin Mason and Frank Rennie recently produced … Continue reading Open and blended histories

Academia.edu, eportfolio/PLE PDR and identity

Spent the morning acquainting myself with some of the features of academia.edu. My (limited) profile is here. In the publish or perish tradition there is a facility to upload citations for your papers and conference "talks" and list your research interests but there is no facility to list the courses you teach. Clearly a site … Continue reading Academia.edu, eportfolio/PLE PDR and identity