Promoting Access to Knowledge, Strategy, & Disposition
Just a few words on this article by Richard Prawat (1989). Prawat is making an argument about acccess, which he defines as “the ability to draw on or utilize one’s intellectual resources in situations...
View ArticleJonathan Swift & E-Learning
This article is the opening editorial for the journal E-learning. I wanted to just record one insight that I found especially interesting. The author writes that Jonathan Swift’s “writing machine” in...
View ArticlePerspective-Taking in Online Discussions
In this article, Jarvela & Hakkinen (2003) use Selman’s (1980) sociocognitive construct of “perspective-taking” to evaluate the level of asynchronous discussions. As they do, they had some...
View ArticleDistance Matters: Copresence vs Technology-Mediated Interaction
Olson & Olson argue in this article that “[t]here are characteristics of face-to-face human interactions, particularly the space–time contexts in which such interactions take place, that the...
View ArticleCultivating Tacit Knowledge Online
This article discusses tacit knowledge, using the definition proposed by Polanyi (1967) of what we know but find hard to articulate. I think tacit knowledge is part of becoming, or the learning that...
View ArticleThe Social Dimension of Networks (Nohria & Eccles)
This was a fascinating article, which makes an argument similar to the one I have been working on. The authors do note that there is little hard evidence to support their argument that, “[a]t the...
View ArticlePublication!
I am the first author on an article which appears this month in Distance Education. It is titled “An analysis of high impact scholarship and publication trends in blended learning”; more details are...
View ArticleArticle Accepted by Internet & Higher Education
An article is in press! Halverson, L.R., Graham, C.R., Spring, K.J., Drysdale, J.S. & Henrie, C.R. (2013, in press). A Thematic Analysis of the Most Highly Cited Scholarship in the First Decade of...
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