Kids grow up and become parents, or at least stand alone adults, so what happens when a WordPress child theme can absorb their parent? Is this metaphor slipping down a slipper slope? So here is the situation. Both my Daily Blank (a theme to create your own version of the DS106 Daily Create) theme and […] 
The following list was adapted from Clayton R. Wright’s Educational Technology and Education Conferences List #40. Please refer to Wright’s complete list for other conferences as well as each conference website for more details. Each year I attend AECT, AERA,…
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NWeLearn 2018 Conference NWeLearn 2018 is in Boise this year! This annual conference brings a great and affordable opportunity to learn and share about teaching and learning best practices, accessibility, elearning, program compliance, teaching tools, data analytics, and many more interesting…
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CIDER Sessions: Call for presenters As we look ahead to our 2018-19 season of CIDER Sessions, we invite researchers working in distance, distributed, online, or blended education to present in our ongoing monthly seminar series. The Canadian Initiative for Distance Education…
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The Educational Technology section of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Education is open for proposals and submissions. Proposals should be sent to the section editor, Mike Spector ([email protected]) . Submissions are sought in four areas: 1. Definitions, history and background R&D 2. Representative…
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For the obviously obvious statement, WordPress is built on a database. The question is, besides data like visitor counts, what can you infer from the data in the posts and metadata itself? The question was swirling in preparation for a research interview I did today with David Porter and Valerie Lopes for the Ontario Extend […]
The diagnosis is likely on the spectrum of an obsession. In the buildup to the first open version of the open digital storytelling course, the one, the only, DS106, I first saw a sign with a 106 on it. I noticed it. It was so long ago that what I was doing at the time […]
SUBMIT A CHAPTER PROPOSAL Interested in sharing your perspectives and work promoting universal access through inclusive instructional design? The editors invite you to submit a chapter proposal by June 30, 2018. Chapter proposals (about 400-600 words) should contain the following:…
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Editors Tina L. Heafner, Ph.D. Professor of Social Studies Education University of North Carolina at Charlotte Department of Middle, Secondary and K-12 Education Cato College of Education Richard Hartshorne, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Instructional Design & Technology University of Central…
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Guest editor(s): Dr. Xu Du National Engineering Research Center for E-Learning, Central China Normal University Wuhan China Dr. Jui-Long Hung Department of Educational Technology Boise State University Boise, ID USA Dr. Chih-Hsiung Tu, Educational Technology College of Education Northern Arizona…
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The following list was adapted from Clayton R. Wright’s Educational Technology and Education Conferences List #39. Please refer to Wright’s complete list for other conferences as well as each conference website for more details. Each year I attend AECT, AERA,…
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Easily the most influential experience that has informed both my work in educational technology and the way I teach has come from the experiences I had being part of since 2011 as an open participant, teaching in person and online, and building out much of the web infrastructure for DS106, the open Digital Storytelling course […]
The DS106 Daily Create has done it’s thing non-stop, every day since January 8, 2012 thanks to a dedicated crew of open and class participants in DS106 plus people who work behind the scenes to keep it populated. How many other web things have had a continuous 6+ year run? With no budget? While tech […]
Guest editors Aroutis Foster & Mamta Shah Drexel University Scope This special issue of The Journal of Experimental Education seeks to provide education scholars with insight into current theoretical and methodological approaches to conceptualize, facilitate, and empirically examine learning and identity in…
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