Recently there was a discussion on a P2PU mailing list about the basic model of P2PU, questioning why we didn’t embrace more open-ended networked learning where anyone could teach anything, and whether the word “university” was compatible with the concept of Peer2Peer. Since these two questions have come up frequently in other fora, I decided [...]

I really enjoy giving presentations and talks. They are a great way for me to think through my ideas, and systematize them, and I can trace some of my ideas now through a series of talk as they were gradually developed (with help from the audience). I try to be an interesting and engaging speaker [...]

I wrote earlier about preparing to give a guest lecture in a class called KMD 1002: Knowledge Communities: Patterns and Practices, where I assigned three resources for class preparation: a CIDER talk by Terry Anderson about Three Generations of Distance Education Pedagogy. I also ended up assigning a paper by Marlene Scardamalia: Collective Cognitive Responsibility [...]

As I wrote earlier, I was invited by Jeff Lail, Jeff Jackson and Laura Pasquini from BreakDrink to participate in their weekly podcast, and discuss P2PU. It was a fun format, and I got some really nice questions. I had a feeling we could have continued chatting for a while, and they invited me back [...]

I just came across a new list of the 1000 most visited websites globally, hosted by Google’s AdPlanner. There isn’t too much information about how the list was put together, although it’s noted that certain pages that are not open to the world, spam sites, and porn sites have been removed (it would have been [...]

I was invited to discuss Peer2Peer University at a newly launched podcast about universities, technologies and student affairs called Campus Tech Connections. According to the website, “[t]he goal is to help campus practitioners understand technology while becoming  active digital citizens”. They use the blogtalkradio platform, which enables people to call in during the show to [...]