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Next month at this time, I’ll be boarding a plane for Delhi. In the sixties I dreamed of visiting India but never made it. Finally fulfilling the dream has me totally jazzed. I’ll be taking part in EdgeX , an event that covers two important themes for education – Learning X.O (the MORE
He points to Zenodo , a respository for research outputs. Open source communities are better at collaborating than most academic research communities are. Publiscize helps researchers translate their work into terms that a broader audience can understand. It’s the first panel of the morning at Shaking It Up. Six men from six companies give brief overviews of their products. The session is led by Courtney Soderberg from the. MORE
In this post I discuss the nature (and weaknesses) of research in our field. Kerr in this recent post , about how research in educational technology could be improved, but I have disagreements around the edges, enough that I think more discussion is warranted. MORE
My answer to theory or research is theory. Most research experiments are done in the context of a theoretical framework. Researchers tend to run experiments driven by a theory. The post Theory or Research? MORE
Firstly the ‘researcher’ (normally a consultant) identified what the current hot topic was. It isn’t research its righteous promotion of ignorance and duplicity. The post My/Our research … appeared first on Cognitive Edge. MORE
An analyst reports that her company’s research finds that only 30% of U.S. companies spent money on informal learning tools or services last year. Of those, big companies spent $16,000 on average; little ones spent $5600. What an astounding finding! MORE
As I stated in a previous post , I recently had a mild disappointment in enacting a research project. And it got me thinking about why important research is often not conducted because granting agencies are actually not horribly innovative. What is established as a clear trend may receive research dollars, but early stage ideas are often only able to access small pockets of funds. Research usually only happens when research dollars are available. Research. MORE
Last month, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) released the results of a new study, ARISE II: Unleashing America’s Research & Innovation Enterprise. Pressures to decrease government spending make it harder to support long term research. MORE
Last year, TEKRI and Athabasca University hosted a week-long research seminar on networks and learning. It’s an opportunity for review of existing and leading research as well as intensive discussion about the roles of social media and networks in education. The event was quite successful. As a result, we are organizing a similar event this year. The seminar will be held in Edmonton from June 20-24 and is open to students and faculty. MORE
One area that I haven’t devoted much attention to is that of distributed online research networks. Most people in higher education participate in research networks – even if the network is merely a means of connecting researchers in different locations, with each running their own labs and research programs. While hardly novel, we are developing a distributed online research program around upcoming (massive) open online courses (MOOCs). MORE
This past September, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences released Restoring the Foundations: The Vital Role of Research in Preserving the American Dream , - a report on the state of US leadership in science and technology. Research is generally characterized as basic or applied. MORE
Tweet “What Sanofi is doing is reducing its own internal research capacity,” he said. We will do less of our own research. We’re not going to get out of research. As research becomes more networked, researchers will need to be more collaborative. MORE
I just stumbled across a fascinating 2002 paper where pioneering sleep researcher Allan Hobson describes the effect of a precisely located stroke he suffered. MORE
I promised a more substantive post about our Friday session at the AoM on new forms of research, and I want to do it by summarising aspects of Max Boisot's final presentation, which did an excellent point of putting everything in context. MORE
Toyota, for example, recently established the Toyota Research Institute to pursue the development of what it calls guardian angel automation technologies, where the driver is always in control until a crash looms, at which point the automation system fully takes over to try to prevent the accident. MORE
Inthis new E-Learning Guild Survey Research Report,Informal Learning Takes Off, Iexamine the results of a survey about informal learning in the workplace. MORE
In April, MIT released The Future Postponed: Why Declining Investment in Basic Research Threatens a U.S. Innovation Deficit , - a report on both the long term benefits of basic research and the impact on those benefits of declining federal investments. MORE
There are still a few places on the narrative research seminar coming up in Amsterdam next week. We keep these small as they are designed to understand the theory of the approach, and also to engage in design of advanced applications. This one is being hosted by one of our experienced practitioners, Jochum (who co-authored an article with me on narrative) so there will be a change to see some of their projects as well. Discounts for any existing network member. MORE
One announcement that was less noticed was the announcement of a new research endeavor, but I wonder if it isn’t the most game-changing element of them all. What Apple has done is to focus specifically on health data from their HealthKit, and partner with research hospitals. A couple of weeks ago, I was riffing on sensors: how mobile devices are getting equipped with all sorts of new sensors and the potential for more and what they might bring. MORE
Openness in education is more advocacy than research. Sure, we’ve had the odd Yochai Benkler paper and a few publications from advocates of openness and a few researcher/philosopher/advocates (like Peter Suber and John Willinksky). I can’t think of a trend in education that is as substantive as openness that has less of a peer reviewed research base. Where are the research conferences? MORE
The GiveALink link-sharing site has posted two games thaty are actually research studies. It’s actually a study called “Social Annotations through Game Play&# conducted by the Networks and Agents Network in the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research of the Indiana University School of Informatics. It’s an open bookmark-sharing service that also feeds a research program. MORE
As part of the MOOC Research Initiative , I’m organizing two open events this coming week: Oct 22, 11 am Mountain Time (see conversions ): An Overview of the MOOC Research Initiative: The project, literature, and landscape. This presentation will provide a timeline of the development of the MOOC Research Initiative, its goals, the review and selection process, and lessons learned. Several presentations this next week that might be of interest to readers: 1. MORE
All aspects of it, including administration, teaching/learning, and research. The process of becoming digital has important implications for how learning occurs and how research happens and how it is shared. I’m happy to announce the formation of the digital Learning Research Network (dLRN), funded by a $1.6m From a broad overview, the goal of the grant is to improve the depth and quality of research in digital learning. Connect and amplify existing research. MORE
Learning through Conversation – April 2016 Cal Wick, Bob Eichinger, Charles Jennings 70-20-10: Origin,Research, Purpose by Cal Wick Where It All Began The 70-20-10 model has been part of the corporate learning and development lexicon for decades. MORE
There is a hard line in research ethics to the effect that any interaction with a user needs to be declared beforehand, and conducted with the explicit consent of the user. Research is not inherently evil, and studying people to find out how they work is not wrong. Creating conditions of consent alters research results; tell people their emotions are being monitored and they change their emotions. The Facebook experiments are actually very clever. MORE
His part of the world is the dual environments of Athabasca University and the University of Texas at Arlington, and he is attempting to put together major research efforts around MOOCs and learning analytics. Hype and rhetoric, not research, were the driving forces behind MOOCs, he argued. MORE
Learning through Conversation – April 2016 Cal Wick, Bob Eichinger, Charles Jennings 70-20-10: Origin,Research, Purpose by Cal Wick Where It All Began The 70-20-10 model has been part of the corporate learning and development lexicon for decades. MORE
As part of the Digital Learning Research Network, we held our first conference at Stanford last year. The framework of changes can’t be understood through traditional research methods. The research methods and approaches furnish it. This year we are outfitting it through more traditional research methods. The conference focused on making sense of higher education. MORE
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So, one of the things that a few people do is translate research to practice. They’re also practitioners, designing or consulting on solutions, but they can read research in untranslated academese and make sense of it. The post Translational research? MORE
At LINK Research Lab, we have a full slate of speakers for fall, including topics on distributed learning, synchronous instruction, success for under represented students, learning analytics, engagement, design based research, openness, flipped classrooms, health and the built environment, mentorship, and wonder. MORE
At AECT18, I dropped in on a session summarizing research on emerging technologies for online learning. There were experts in each area, so names like Vanessa Dennan on social media, Curt Bonk in MOOCs, Florence Martin on synchronous Learning, and David Wiley on Open Education Research. MORE
New article in the MWL Magazine: Building digital confidence at Cancer Research UK ‘When our digital team works with another team at CRUK in a ‘spoke’, we help them deliver a digital outcome. MORE
In the fifth chapter, we evaluated the citations based on the MOOC Research Initiative, which received close to 300 submissions. At least three strands of discourse exist: the edtech hypesters, the research literature in peer reviewed publications, and the practitioner space. Compare his citations with many academics in the field and it’s clear that he has an impact on both practice and research. MORE
In June, 2010, Terry Anderson and I, along with TEKRI researchers and a few visiting guests, hosted a doctoral research seminar on social networked learning. The event offered a great opportunity for sharing research and engaging in discussions around the future role of social networked learning. This year, we (TEKRI: Terry Anderson, Jon Dron, and I) are excited to announce the second version of this research seminar: Social Networks and Learning 2011. MORE
Defending himself against my criticism of his recently released research study on distance and online learning, George Siemens tweets: Au contraire mon frère. There are many non-research articles cites, with a particular preference toward foundations, consultants, a few blogs and news and magazine articles. The non-research citations are as selective and ill-informed as the formal citations. Babson Survey Research Group. MOOC Research Initiative (MRI) - Final Report. MORE
This past week, in preparation for our upcoming MOOC research conference ( early bird registration ends Oct 31 ), I held two online presentations on a) MOOC Research Initiative (a review of literature, research themes) and b) Lessons MOOCs can learn from online education. MOOC Research Initiative. MORE
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I just stumbled across a fascinating 2002 paper where pioneering sleep researcher Allan Hobson describes the effect of a precisely located stroke he suffered. MORE
The Web Ecology Project has released 140Kit , a research tool for tracing tweet paths. It’s the final product of the various provisional tools we’ve used to produce our previous reports on the social phenomena of Twitter , and of lead researcher Devin Gaffney’s own work on high throughput humanities.&#. MORE
Note that, in all cases, having made the initial unexpected observation – either from unstructured exploratory research, or in the course of investigating something else – the researchers went on to shore up the findings with further, hypothesis-driven experiments. MORE
There is now enough evidence from research that stressful workplaces are counter-productive to impact. Recent burnout research and trends reveal that work environments are becoming more overwhelming and complex. Photo by Norbert Reimer. MORE
I’ve been working with several colleagues on arranging the upcoming Digital Learning Research Network (dLRN) conference at Stanford, October 16-17, 2015. The conference will include social scientists, activists, philosophers, researchers, and rabble rousers. The call for papers is now open. We are looking for short abstracts – 250 words – on topics of digital learning. The deadline is May 31. MORE
I’m pleased to announce that the reports from the MOOC Research Initiative (MRI) are now available. In the spirit of useful science , each grantee was asked to provide a one sentence overview of their research findings. I enjoyed working on this grant. The traditional method of exploring a knowledge domain takes years. With MOOCs, given their rapid development, this didn’t seem feasible. MORE
Research Related Topics Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 6, 2018
So, one of the things that a few people do is translate research to practice. They’re also practitioners, designing or consulting on solutions, but they can read research in untranslated academese and make sense of it. The post Translational research?
Clark Quinn
JULY 17, 2019
My answer to theory or research is theory. Most research experiments are done in the context of a theoretical framework. Researchers tend to run experiments driven by a theory. The post Theory or Research?
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Dave Snowden
AUGUST 27, 2019
Firstly the ‘researcher’ (normally a consultant) identified what the current hot topic was. It isn’t research its righteous promotion of ignorance and duplicity. The post My/Our research … appeared first on Cognitive Edge.
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 24, 2018
At AECT18, I dropped in on a session summarizing research on emerging technologies for online learning. There were experts in each area, so names like Vanessa Dennan on social media, Curt Bonk in MOOCs, Florence Martin on synchronous Learning, and David Wiley on Open Education Research.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
In this post I discuss the nature (and weaknesses) of research in our field. Kerr in this recent post , about how research in educational technology could be improved, but I have disagreements around the edges, enough that I think more discussion is warranted.
Charles Jennings
JULY 10, 2017
Learning through Conversation – April 2016 Cal Wick, Bob Eichinger, Charles Jennings 70-20-10: Origin,Research, Purpose by Cal Wick Where It All Began The 70-20-10 model has been part of the corporate learning and development lexicon for decades.
Jane Hart
AUGUST 13, 2014
Inthis new E-Learning Guild Survey Research Report,Informal Learning Takes Off, Iexamine the results of a survey about informal learning in the workplace.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
MAY 2, 2015
His part of the world is the dual environments of Athabasca University and the University of Texas at Arlington, and he is attempting to put together major research efforts around MOOCs and learning analytics. Hype and rhetoric, not research, were the driving forces behind MOOCs, he argued.
George Siemens
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
All aspects of it, including administration, teaching/learning, and research. The process of becoming digital has important implications for how learning occurs and how research happens and how it is shared. I’m happy to announce the formation of the digital Learning Research Network (dLRN), funded by a $1.6m From a broad overview, the goal of the grant is to improve the depth and quality of research in digital learning. Connect and amplify existing research.
Clark Quinn
MARCH 17, 2015
One announcement that was less noticed was the announcement of a new research endeavor, but I wonder if it isn’t the most game-changing element of them all. What Apple has done is to focus specifically on health data from their HealthKit, and partner with research hospitals. A couple of weeks ago, I was riffing on sensors: how mobile devices are getting equipped with all sorts of new sensors and the potential for more and what they might bring.
George Siemens
OCTOBER 27, 2013
This past week, in preparation for our upcoming MOOC research conference ( early bird registration ends Oct 31 ), I held two online presentations on a) MOOC Research Initiative (a review of literature, research themes) and b) Lessons MOOCs can learn from online education. MOOC Research Initiative.
Charles Jennings
AUGUST 13, 2016
Learning through Conversation – April 2016 Cal Wick, Bob Eichinger, Charles Jennings 70-20-10: Origin,Research, Purpose by Cal Wick Where It All Began The 70-20-10 model has been part of the corporate learning and development lexicon for decades.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JUNE 2, 2015
In April, MIT released The Future Postponed: Why Declining Investment in Basic Research Threatens a U.S. Innovation Deficit , - a report on both the long term benefits of basic research and the impact on those benefits of declining federal investments.
Jane Hart
MAY 15, 2017
New article in the MWL Magazine: Building digital confidence at Cancer Research UK ‘When our digital team works with another team at CRUK in a ‘spoke’, we help them deliver a digital outcome.
George Siemens
MAY 21, 2015
I’ve been working with several colleagues on arranging the upcoming Digital Learning Research Network (dLRN) conference at Stanford, October 16-17, 2015. The conference will include social scientists, activists, philosophers, researchers, and rabble rousers. The call for papers is now open. We are looking for short abstracts – 250 words – on topics of digital learning. The deadline is May 31.
George Siemens
APRIL 30, 2015
In the fifth chapter, we evaluated the citations based on the MOOC Research Initiative, which received close to 300 submissions. At least three strands of discourse exist: the edtech hypesters, the research literature in peer reviewed publications, and the practitioner space. Compare his citations with many academics in the field and it’s clear that he has an impact on both practice and research.
George Siemens
JUNE 9, 2014
I’m pleased to announce that the reports from the MOOC Research Initiative (MRI) are now available. In the spirit of useful science , each grantee was asked to provide a one sentence overview of their research findings. I enjoyed working on this grant. The traditional method of exploring a knowledge domain takes years. With MOOCs, given their rapid development, this didn’t seem feasible.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
JUNE 30, 2014
There is a hard line in research ethics to the effect that any interaction with a user needs to be declared beforehand, and conducted with the explicit consent of the user. Research is not inherently evil, and studying people to find out how they work is not wrong. Creating conditions of consent alters research results; tell people their emotions are being monitored and they change their emotions. The Facebook experiments are actually very clever.
George Siemens
JULY 4, 2011
One area that I haven’t devoted much attention to is that of distributed online research networks. Most people in higher education participate in research networks – even if the network is merely a means of connecting researchers in different locations, with each running their own labs and research programs. While hardly novel, we are developing a distributed online research program around upcoming (massive) open online courses (MOOCs).
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
APRIL 30, 2015
Defending himself against my criticism of his recently released research study on distance and online learning, George Siemens tweets: Au contraire mon frère. There are many non-research articles cites, with a particular preference toward foundations, consultants, a few blogs and news and magazine articles. The non-research citations are as selective and ill-informed as the formal citations. Babson Survey Research Group. MOOC Research Initiative (MRI) - Final Report.
Mind Hacks
SEPTEMBER 24, 2016
I just stumbled across a fascinating 2002 paper where pioneering sleep researcher Allan Hobson describes the effect of a precisely located stroke he suffered.
Mind Hacks
SEPTEMBER 24, 2016
I just stumbled across a fascinating 2002 paper where pioneering sleep researcher Allan Hobson describes the effect of a precisely located stroke he suffered.
Dave Snowden
AUGUST 8, 2010
I promised a more substantive post about our Friday session at the AoM on new forms of research, and I want to do it by summarising aspects of Max Boisot's final presentation, which did an excellent point of putting everything in context.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
DECEMBER 3, 2014
This past September, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences released Restoring the Foundations: The Vital Role of Research in Preserving the American Dream , - a report on the state of US leadership in science and technology. Research is generally characterized as basic or applied.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JULY 12, 2016
Toyota, for example, recently established the Toyota Research Institute to pursue the development of what it calls guardian angel automation technologies, where the driver is always in control until a crash looms, at which point the automation system fully takes over to try to prevent the accident.
George Siemens
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
Openness in education is more advocacy than research. Sure, we’ve had the odd Yochai Benkler paper and a few publications from advocates of openness and a few researcher/philosopher/advocates (like Peter Suber and John Willinksky). I can’t think of a trend in education that is as substantive as openness that has less of a peer reviewed research base. Where are the research conferences?
George Siemens
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
At LINK Research Lab, we have a full slate of speakers for fall, including topics on distributed learning, synchronous instruction, success for under represented students, learning analytics, engagement, design based research, openness, flipped classrooms, health and the built environment, mentorship, and wonder.
David Weinberger
JULY 1, 2010
The Web Ecology Project has released 140Kit , a research tool for tracing tweet paths. It’s the final product of the various provisional tools we’ve used to produce our previous reports on the social phenomena of Twitter , and of lead researcher Devin Gaffney’s own work on high throughput humanities.&#.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
JUNE 19, 2013
Last month, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) released the results of a new study, ARISE II: Unleashing America’s Research & Innovation Enterprise. Pressures to decrease government spending make it harder to support long term research.
George Siemens
APRIL 4, 2011
Last year, TEKRI and Athabasca University hosted a week-long research seminar on networks and learning. It’s an opportunity for review of existing and leading research as well as intensive discussion about the roles of social media and networks in education. The event was quite successful. As a result, we are organizing a similar event this year. The seminar will be held in Edmonton from June 20-24 and is open to students and faculty.
George Siemens
DECEMBER 21, 2010
In June, 2010, Terry Anderson and I, along with TEKRI researchers and a few visiting guests, hosted a doctoral research seminar on social networked learning. The event offered a great opportunity for sharing research and engaging in discussions around the future role of social networked learning. This year, we (TEKRI: Terry Anderson, Jon Dron, and I) are excited to announce the second version of this research seminar: Social Networks and Learning 2011.
George Siemens
JUNE 21, 2016
As part of the Digital Learning Research Network, we held our first conference at Stanford last year. The framework of changes can’t be understood through traditional research methods. The research methods and approaches furnish it. This year we are outfitting it through more traditional research methods. The conference focused on making sense of higher education.
George Siemens
APRIL 5, 2012
As I stated in a previous post , I recently had a mild disappointment in enacting a research project. And it got me thinking about why important research is often not conducted because granting agencies are actually not horribly innovative. What is established as a clear trend may receive research dollars, but early stage ideas are often only able to access small pockets of funds. Research usually only happens when research dollars are available. Research.
Mind Hacks
MAY 29, 2016
Note that, in all cases, having made the initial unexpected observation – either from unstructured exploratory research, or in the course of investigating something else – the researchers went on to shore up the findings with further, hypothesis-driven experiments.
George Siemens
OCTOBER 18, 2013
As part of the MOOC Research Initiative , I’m organizing two open events this coming week: Oct 22, 11 am Mountain Time (see conversions ): An Overview of the MOOC Research Initiative: The project, literature, and landscape. This presentation will provide a timeline of the development of the MOOC Research Initiative, its goals, the review and selection process, and lessons learned. Several presentations this next week that might be of interest to readers: 1.
Dave Snowden
FEBRUARY 16, 2009
There are still a few places on the narrative research seminar coming up in Amsterdam next week. We keep these small as they are designed to understand the theory of the approach, and also to engage in design of advanced applications. This one is being hosted by one of our experienced practitioners, Jochum (who co-authored an article with me on narrative) so there will be a change to see some of their projects as well. Discounts for any existing network member.
David Weinberger
APRIL 3, 2011
The GiveALink link-sharing site has posted two games thaty are actually research studies. It’s actually a study called “Social Annotations through Game Play&# conducted by the Networks and Agents Network in the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research of the Indiana University School of Informatics. It’s an open bookmark-sharing service that also feeds a research program.
Jay Cross
MAY 15, 2011
An analyst reports that her company’s research finds that only 30% of U.S. companies spent money on informal learning tools or services last year. Of those, big companies spent $16,000 on average; little ones spent $5600. What an astounding finding!
David Weinberger
NOVEMBER 24, 2014
He points to Zenodo , a respository for research outputs. Open source communities are better at collaborating than most academic research communities are. Publiscize helps researchers translate their work into terms that a broader audience can understand. It’s the first panel of the morning at Shaking It Up. Six men from six companies give brief overviews of their products. The session is led by Courtney Soderberg from the.
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 10, 2012
Next month at this time, I’ll be boarding a plane for Delhi. In the sixties I dreamed of visiting India but never made it. Finally fulfilling the dream has me totally jazzed. I’ll be taking part in EdgeX , an event that covers two important themes for education – Learning X.O (the
Beth Kanter
JANUARY 22, 2019
There is now enough evidence from research that stressful workplaces are counter-productive to impact. Recent burnout research and trends reveal that work environments are becoming more overwhelming and complex. Photo by Norbert Reimer.
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