Professor Emeritus Fred Saba is an international scholar, and founder of distance-educator.com. He is author of over 100 articles and book chapters, is on the editorial board of many prominent international journals and is the first winner of the Charles A. Wedemeyer award given to scholars who have made significant contributions to research and theory building in the field of distance education.
Dr Stephen Murgatroyd is an e-learning consultant who continues to work globally at the highest levels of education. He seeks to continuously prod education decision-makers toward disruptive innovation and making a positive difference.
Dave Cormier is a systems change leader and educator based in Canada. He has some thoughtful, insightful, and challenging perspectives about learning guaranteed to have you reflecting on what effective education means in the online resource-rich abundance of the 21st century.
Professor Rory McGreal is an open education resources and open access champion, and is an early innovator with networked learning. He is known internationally for his work, and has had both Commonwealth of Learning and ICDE chairs is recognition of his ongoing advocacy. This interview CC-BY.
Michael
Kwet is a Visiting Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law
School. His perspective of big data and corporate involvement in education
invites us to reconsider our assumptions about analytics and automated
education. This episode will get you thinking!
Stephen Downes is Senior Research Officer with the National Research Council in Canada. He has a deep history in online education and his writings, regular newsletter (the OLDaily) and international keynotes mean it’s likely he’s already influenced your practice and thinking.
Downes, S. (2019). Personal Learning Versus Personalized Learning – Making Lifelong Learning Happen. Online Learning 2019, Toronto, Ontario (Lecture). Audio and video: https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?presentation=511
Downes, S. (2019). The Third Wave: the Next Generation of Distributed Learning Technology. Canadian Network for Innovation in Education, Vancouver, British Columbia (Lecture). Audio and video: https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?presentation=505
Shanan Holm is Chief Technology Officer with Open Polytechnic and General Manager of iQualify, a popular, home-grown online learning management system that began life as an intrapreneurial lean startup. Shanan’s career has more of an IT background than our other guests however his broad-based work in education technology continues to influence online education.
Distinguished Professor Rich Mayer is a psychologist who, in his own words, is engaged in “applying the science of learning to education”. Rich’s insight is well-grounded in research, and his work will be of interest to all seeking to provide effective education online.
Named as “one of the 128 most important, influential, innovative and interesting thinkers on education of all time” (The Routledge Encyclopedia of Educational Thinkers, 2016), Distinguished Professor Emeritus Michael G. Moore is internationally recognized for establishing the scholarly study of distance education, nowadays widely referred to as e-learning and online learning, and for pioneering the practice of teaching online.
Interview:https://episodes.castos.com/onlinelearninglegends/028-Michael-G-Moore-Final.mp3 | recorded May 2019
Adjunct Professor Diane Janes has a strong history as an online educator across Canada. Across her career to date she has worked in instructional design, online teaching and education leadership, and her breadth of scholarship and well-grounded perspective make this a very interesting interview.
The We are All Related Augmented Reality (AR) project seeks to integrate Indigenous knowledge and teaching methods in post-secondary education, encouraging processes of critical, reflective, and reciprocal relationship-building though the co-creation of AR content. Site contains OER guidebooks for Instructors and Learners. https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/sweetgrassar/home
McMahon, R., Almond, A., Whistance-Smith, G., Steinhauer, D., Steinhauer, S., & Janes, D.P. (2019). Sweetgrass AR: Exploring Augmented Reality as a Resource for Indigenous–Settler Relations. International Journal Of Communication, 13, 23. Retrieved from https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/11778
Lenert, K. and Janes, D.P. (2017). The Incorporation of Quality Attributes into Online CourseDesign in Higher Education. International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education 32(1). Retrieved from http://www.ijede.ca/index.php/jde/issue/view/77
Janes, D.P. and Carter, L.M. (2020). Empowering Techno-resiliency and Practical Learning Among Teachers: Leveraging a Community of Practice Model Using Microsoft Teams. In Ferdig, R.E., Baumgartner, E., Hartshorne, R., Kaplan-Rakowski, R. & Mouza, C. (Eds). Teaching, technology, and teacher education during the COVID-19 pandemic: Stories from the field. Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE); p. 265-273. https://www.learntechlib.org/p/216903/
Additional nominated works (may require purchase):
Carter, L. M., and Janes, D.P. (2018). The transition of women to leadership in post-secondary institutions in Canada: An examination of the literature and the lived DIM experiences of two female leaders. In C.L. Cho, et. al (Eds), Exploring the Toxicity of Lateral and Micro-aggressions. Palgrave MacMillan, pp.209-230. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74760-6_11
Janes, D.P. (2009). “Delphi and NGT for Consensus Building E-Research”. Chapter contribution to Patricia L. Rogers, Gary Berg, Judith Boettcher, Caroline Howard, Lorraine Justice & K. D. Schenk (Eds). Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, 2nd Edition, Information Science Publishing.
Bullen, M. and Janes, D.P. (2007). (Eds). Making the Transition to E-learning: Strategies and Issues. Hershey, PA: Idea Publishing Group. (Published August 2006).
Janes D.P., Carter L.M., and Rourke L.E. (2020) Mentoring as Support for Women in Higher Education Leadership. In Eaton S., Burns A. (Eds) Women Negotiating Life in the Academy. Springer, Singapore. Chapter 4 (p. 33-49) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3114-9_4
