Another graduation to report. Rosemary Waterston successfully defended her dissertation yesterday. Her thesis title is: Interaction in Online Interprofessional Education Case Discussions, and her (large) committee included Lawrence Spero who joined us via videoconferencing from his island home in BC…
Category: Graduate Education
Graduations
I wanted to congratulate our most recent graduates. Doug on obtaining his M.Ed. degree–he convocated in June (and I want to apologize for my time lag in responding :), and to Bruce who successfully completed his Dissertation defence today–Dr Forrester…
When is a theory really a model and who cares about either?
From Wikipedia A theory makes generalizations about observations and consists of an interrelated, coherent set of ideas and models. In science, a theory is a proposed model, explanation or description of the manner of interaction of a set of natural…
Educational Technology Journals–reading and publishing
Some suggested Journals and Conferences relevant to Education and Technology In North America, the conference and journals of the American Education Research Association (AERA) give you a finger on the pulse of where educational research as a field is heading.…
What is the dissertation for?
Simply put, the dissertation is a doctoral candidates’ most elaborate excursion into all the aspects of the research process. Each step is really important and refines and develops a range of research related skills: the development and refinement of a…
What is a PhD anyway?
It has been occurring to me that one of the myriad pieces of tacit knowledge graduate students are supposed to pick up while they wend their way through graduate school is exactly what it means to have a PhD. How…
International Conference on Education and Technology
Please read the attached call for papers for the International Conference on Education and Technology, July 17-19th, in Calgary. Papers are due March 1st, on a whole range of educational technology related topics–see the attachment for details. Download file
Readings for proposal development
After our research and Weblog meetings yesterday I was looking around for articles that might be helpful for the proposal development process. The article on literature reviews that I had mentioned is the following: Boote, D. N. & Beile, P.(2005).…
Visual representations of theory
One of my MEd students, Celynn Klemenchuk–whom many of you know, has a real knack for creating visual maps of complex ideas. She has a whole set of really great concept maps for different theories and theoretical perspectives and you…
Setting up Del.ic.ious and Bloglines
Well that was a lot easier in the end! I have managed to get accounts in both, post to both and have set up links in my task bar which lets me add links directly without opening those pages first.…