Distance Learning Journal Presentation 
Learning with e's
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
In a formal sense, distance learning has been a familiar concept since at least 1837, when Sir Isaac Pitman began teaching his shorthand system using typed instruction cards mailed through the universal Penny Postal service to his students across England. The term ''distance education'' may well be anachronistic in the digital age.
Learning with e's
MARCH 22, 2018
It was quite exciting to appear on the front cover of Training Journal this month. I was approached by the editor of the journal after my presentation in London at the Learning Technologies annual conference. I was quite new to distance learning, but I was suddenly elevated to ‘expert’ status.
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E-Learning Provocateur
NOVEMBER 25, 2012
No more lazy professors, no more specious journal articles. While MOOCs typically comprise video clips and perhaps a quiz, they will inevitably include more instructional devices to assist distance learning (and remain competitive). Universities will flip their classrooms. The pedagogy of MOOCs will be enriched.
E-Learning Provocateur
NOVEMBER 25, 2012
No more lazy professors, no more specious journal articles. While MOOCs typically comprise video clips and perhaps a quiz, they will inevitably include more instructional devices to assist distance learning (and remain competitive). Universities will flip their classrooms. The pedagogy of MOOCs will be enriched.
eLearning 24-7
JULY 22, 2020
Distance Learning – An interview I saw last week, with the CEO of the 3rd largest school district (Maryland) referred to online learning as distance learning. . She isn’t the only person to do so, it is a term I hear often, but it has nothing to do with online learning as it actually exists.
Learning with e's
MARCH 20, 2014
He is one of the pioneers of online and distance learning, and currently serves as the editor of the influential online open access journal International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning ( IRRODL ).
Learning with e's
FEBRUARY 7, 2014
Here, presented in several short excerpts over the next few days, is my paper. Such change and disruption has been in the background of my thinking about learning technology for the past decade. In May 2000, I was invited to present two keynote speeches about the role technology would play in the future of higher education.
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