Education The Beautiful, Messy, Inspiring, and Harrowing World of Online Learning

Keynote at the 2014 BCNET conference in Vancouver, BC. In this presentation I shared stories of learners' and scholars' experiences online, arising from multiple…

Education MOOCs, Automation, Artificial Intelligence and Pedagogical Agents

Open courses are a sociocultural phenomenon. This phenomenon represents symptoms, responses, and failures facing Higher Education. In this talk, I examined open courses and…

Education The Design of Empowering and Inspirational Open Online Learning Experiences

While conversations in the academic world and the mass media continue to focus on the benefits, challenges, opportunities, and future of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs),…

Education 2011 11 29 emerging technologies heltasa

1. Characteristics of ET1. May or may not be new technologies2. Evolving organism, that exist in the state of coming into being3. Go through hype cycles4. They are not yet…