http://cider.athabascau.ca http://cider.athabascau.ca/logo.jpg http://cider.athabascau.ca/ http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/callforpapersturkish Mark J. W. Lee, Charles Sturt University, Australia and Hakan G. Senel, Anadolu University, Turkey have put out a Call for Papers for a theme issue of TOJDE: "Web 2.0 and Social Software in Distance Education." Submission deadline is April 1, 2007. paulah 2007-01-22 14:15:06 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/ccljournal The Canadian Council on Learning (CCL) is pleased to invite submissions for its online peer-reviewed publication, the Journal of Applied Research on Learning (JARL). terrya 2007-02-01 09:49:28 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/3dec2007 The CIDER site has been updated with two new additions to our Research Reports, Summaries, and Notes area. pwatland 2007-12-03 09:35:13 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/e-learnign%20report terrya 2009-05-27 12:41:11 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/LTC%20Workshops pwatland 2007-09-26 10:16:45 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/30nov2007 University of Victoria, BC, Canada - Educational Technology Consultant pwatland 2007-11-30 08:43:48 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/29nov2007 Research Support area of CIDER has been updated. pwatland 2007-11-30 09:19:19 http://cider.athabascau.ca/Members/terrya/20university Call for Papers Special Issue of Interactive Learning Environments www.informaworld.com/ile terrya 2009-01-13 10:29:00 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/news_item.2010-10-26.5177440489 Thompson Rivers University is proud to announce a one-day conference on "The Digital Future of Higher Education," Feb. 22, 2011, in Kamloops terrya 2010-10-26 17:43:45 http://cider.athabascau.ca/weft This product seems like a useful Qualitative analysis program and the price is right! terrya 2005-06-03 16:37:58 http://cider.athabascau.ca/MDEthesis terrya 2005-06-22 17:26:45 http://cider.athabascau.ca/research/ICTE2005 The proceedings from the International Conference on Multimedia, Information and Communications Technologies in Education, held this month (June, 2005) in Spain are now available at http://www.formatex.org/micte2005/book.htm terrya 2005-06-22 17:25:26 http://cider.athabascau.ca/rida Research in Distance Education and Adult Learning Link (RIDA Link) is a monthly newsletter featuring a very useful set of annotated links to research papers and activities related to Distance Education. terrya 2005-06-28 23:07:51 http://cider.athabascau.ca/projectLogLaunch One of CIDER's missions is to increase opportunities for communication between DE researchers and support a cohesive community of scholars. To this end, CIDER has launched Project Logs, a service to our members. DanW 2005-06-29 02:30:29 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/irrodlafricacall The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) - www.irrodl.org - has issued a call for paper proposals for a special regional issue entitled: " Trends and Issues in Open and Distance Learning in Africa". This regional theme issue of IRRODL aims to describe and analyze current trends and issues in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) in Africa. It will seek to detail the actual and potential contribution of ODL to the educational, social and economic development in the region, and will do so by discussing the challenges and obstacles to ODL's optimal effective and efficient utilization. Submission of an outline of proposal is requested by February 1, 2008 (500-700 words - emailed to irrodl@athabascau.ca.) pwatland 2007-12-20 08:34:05 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/24dec07 The CIDER site has been updated with the addition of a 'Hints and Tips' menu item to assist CIDER members on using the CIDER site and setting up their CIDER profile and preferences. The first two hints and tips deal with adding a editor to your CIDER profile so you can easily add and update content in your CIDER home page and information on RSS readers. pwatland 2007-12-24 09:27:36 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/Createchange The CreateChange site has been renovated and provides more compelling evidence for the very significant change in scholarly production and dissemination made possible by the Net. A great resource for academics and librarians!. terrya 2006-06-23 15:04:21 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/publicationlisting terrya 2006-10-12 09:40:57 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/orrodl The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRRODL) - www.irrodl.org - has issued a call for paper proposals for a special regional issue entitled: "A BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER: LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES IN THE MIDDLE EAST". This regional theme issue of IRRODL aims to describe and analyze current trends and issues in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) in the Middle East. It will seek to detail the actual and potential contribution of ODL to the educational, social and economic development in the region, and will do so by discussing the challenges and obstacles to ODL's optimal effective and efficient utilization. Submission of an outline of proposal is requested by February 1, 2008 (500-700 words - emailed to irrodl@athabascau.ca.) pwatland 2007-12-19 09:07:33 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/05march08 For those who missed our most recent CIDER session titled “Community of Inquiry Framework: Validation and Instrument Development”, the Elluminate and mp3 recording of this session is now available from our archive at http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERSessions/sessionarchive/. PLEASE NOTE: To complement this session, and for those that missed it, we have opened a text forum on CIDER where we may continue the discussions generated in the session. The forum is available in our Special Interest Groups section at http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERSIGs/coisig/. pwatland 2008-03-03 12:36:26 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/posting-policy-change The CIDER site has revised its open posting policy for member homepage folders. Beginning Friday, September 15, we will begin deactivating the content tools across all members' personal folders, then reactivating them on a member-by-member basis. DanW 2006-09-15 06:12:38 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/05amarch08 Under "Events and Opportunities" of the CIDER site (http://cider.athabascau.ca) we have added a new position available at a CIDER friendly organization. If you wish to advertise Distance Education or instructional design related jobs, please forward details to Philip Watland - philipw@athabscau.ca - and we will post them for you. pwatland 2008-03-05 13:29:18 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/celiebook In Plan to Learn: Case Studies in eLearning Project Management, edited by Canadian eLearning Enterprise Alliance (CeLEA)/Alliance des Enterprises en eLearning (ACEeL) – http://www.celea-aceel.ca has just released a new free ebook entitled Plan to Learn: Case Studies in eLearning Project Management. terrya 2006-10-17 12:06:24 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/cadeconferencesurvey Each year CIDER sponsors a preconference session devoted to distance education research at the annual CADE/AMTEC conference. This year we need your help in programming this event. Please help by completing the short survey at http://klaatu-dev.pc.athabascau.ca/research-survey/index.php?sid=23 terrya 2007-01-18 19:07:29 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/news10%20april08 Contributions are invited to a special issue of the International Journal of Engineering Education (IJEE) conforming to the theme of Instructional Technologies in Engineering Education. With the adoption of e-learning in mainstream education, use of emerging and innovative instructional technologies is gaining importance in academia. This is particularly true for engineering education where the learning process lends itself to variety of multi-sensory approaches. pwatland 2008-04-10 13:46:24 http://cider.athabascau.ca/events/cidersessions2005 Last year hundreds of researchers and educators from across Canada and elsewhere attended our first series of CIDER Sessions. Links to slides and audiographic recordings of all these past sessions are available at http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERSessions/ Stay tuned! CIDER has many more speakers on tap from across Canada. Here’s list of upcoming CIDER Sessions: paulah 2005-10-12 11:20:45 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/uofmcourse The University of Manitoba is hosting a five day online course on doing Internet research terrya 2009-06-19 08:40:45 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/research Visit "Events and Opportunities" on left hand navigation bar for several new research opportunities. paulah 2007-02-21 11:41:54 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/journals terrya 2009-10-13 09:26:01 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/06march08 CNIE Conference, Banff, Alberta, April 27-30, 2008 - The Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) has extended the Early Bird Rate for conference registration until midnight, Friday, March 7, 2008. pwatland 2008-03-05 08:54:20 http://cider.athabascau.ca/newCIDERSIGs A number of new Special Interest Groups with asynch. discussion capability have been added to the CIDER site. We are recruiting SIG owners for the existing SIGs and suggestions for additional SIGs. DanW 2005-04-04 14:11:49 http://cider.athabascau.ca/Members/paulah/cade-amtec-preconf-wrkshp Canadian Association for Distance Education (CADE-ACÉD) and the Association for Media and Technology in Education in Canada (AMTEC) annual conference @ Université du Québec à Montréal pre-conference workshop: Sparking and Sustaining Innovation through Research in Distance Education paulah 2006-03-30 11:51:53 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/07dec2007 We are publishing a summary of the results here as feedback to respondents, the CIDER membership, and ourselves. pwatland 2007-12-07 09:13:20 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/aeraresearch The American Educational Research Association has released a draft set of guidelines for reporting research results (in articles, thesis and reports). terrya 2006-04-26 13:50:21 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/openaccessweek Athabasca is offering a series of 5 noon hour web conferences to celebrate Open Access Week - Oct 19-23 terrya 2009-09-29 16:06:27 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/03news08 At CIDER, we are continuously adding research resources and tools to the CIDER website as well as making improvements to the website itself. The monthly CIDER Bulletin lists all these additions, updates and changes. pwatland 2008-04-01 10:27:21 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/telri We have added this new position available at a CIDER friendly organization to our "Position Opening" menu item. pwatland 2008-03-19 08:50:29 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/PCF5 The Fifth Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning, 13-17 July 2008 at the University of London, UK. Proposal deadline is 30 November 2007. pwatland 2007-10-16 14:04:56 http://cider.athabascau.ca/Members/paulah/wcet-call Blazing the E-Learning Trail: Forging New Ways to Learn paulah 2006-01-27 21:33:59 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/NewMobileLearningBook Mobile Learning: Transforming the Delivery of Education and Training Edited by Mohamed Ally bmcconkey 2009-07-06 16:10:28 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/18mar08 We have added this new research request to our "Research Opportunities" menu item. http://cider.athabascau.ca/events/researchopportunities/. pwatland 2008-03-20 13:55:18 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/EDD Athabasca University has announced details of its first Doctoral degree- delivered at a distance in distance education. terrya 2007-06-14 09:00:22 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/coipreconference Don't miss the CIDER preconference at the CADE/AMTEC conference May 13 in Winnipeg. The session will be of use to researchers or practitioner's wishing to use the Community of Inquiry model (teaching, cognitive and social presence) in their work. terrya 2007-04-20 16:05:10 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/ciderpreconferencePM The CIDER sponsored preconference at the CADE/AMTEC Conference May 13 in Winnipeg, provides an opportunity to meet journal editors, researchers and students wishing to further disseminate the results of their research. terrya 2007-04-20 16:06:40 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/win I am happy to report that Matthew Asser is the lucky winner of the iPod shuffle! Congratulations Matthew! pwatland 2007-11-20 11:03:39 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/23jan08 For those who missed our most recent CIDER session by Dragan Gašević, Jelena Jovanović, Colin Knight, and Griff Richards titled “Ontologies for Effective Use of Context in e-Learning Settings”, the Elluminate recording of their presentation, and their article and power point presentation is now available from our archive at http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERSessions/sessionarchive/. pwatland 2008-01-23 09:16:56 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/news_item.2008-04-01.6678603290 For those who missed our most recent CIDER session titled “Online Teaching in International Contexts: Towards a Sociocultural Perspective of Teaching Presence”, the Elluminate and mp3 recording of this session is now available from our archive at http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERSessions/sessionarchive/. pwatland 2008-04-01 15:52:38 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/11jan08 A friendly reminder that the call for proposals for the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) closes January 15, 2008. The CNIE inaugural conference, hosted by Athabasca University, will be held April 27-30, 2008 in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Proposals are welcome in one or more of the five conference tracks (Applied Media Technologies/Emerging Technologies, Educational Technology/Instructional Design, Distance and Open Education, Policy and Administration, and K-12) and may include research papers, discussion papers, innovative projects and practices, case studies, or literature reviews. Please visit the conference website to submit your proposal. http://www.athabascau.ca/CNIE-RCIE/ pwatland 2008-01-11 12:49:05 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/news_item.2008-04-21.3273975027 Thinking Qualitatively 2008 - June 23-27, 2008. The International Institute for Qualitative Methodology is pleased to announce that online registration & submission of poster abstracts for the 8th Thinking Qualitatively (TQ) Workshop Series (June 23-27, 2008 at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada), is now available on their website at http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/iiqm/thinking.cfm. pwatland 2008-04-21 09:50:47 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/Open%20Access%20Week%202011 bmcconkey 2011-10-05 15:48:42 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/reviews Denis M. Tanguay and Phillip Potts (MDE students at Athabasca) have posted a review of an interesting article predicting the trends in DE from 2003. We are attempting to increase the content available in the 'Research Summaries' section on CIDER and welcome addition reviews of research articles or projects. terrya 2006-11-13 11:25:58 http://cider.athabascau.ca/conceptualframeworkobject This learning object helps students struggling to create a conceptual framework or concept map for a major project or thesis. It includes narratives, examples and resources to guide students through a 5 step voyage of learning. The roughly 2 hour experience with this object will be time well spent by students or teachers struggling with the challenges of grounding their research and developing questions in an appropriate research framework. terrya 2005-05-16 19:35:37 http://cider.athabascau.ca/eppi%20reviews The EPPI group from the UK has developed a systematic review process for extracting 'evidence based' knowledge about a variety of educational activities. http://eppi.ioe.ac.uk/EPPIWeb/home.aspx?page=/reel/reviews.htm terrya 2005-06-22 17:24:01 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/motivation_thesis terrya 2007-06-08 16:15:26 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/feb108 To help generate some ideas on how we might increase the engagement and participation of the over 1,000 individuals who have register with CIDER we thought it would be helpful to start a discussion in CIDER and share some or our thoughts as well as ask you, the members of CIDER, for yours. To do this we have set up a discussion space under the CIDER Special Interest Groups menu item titled “Virtual Communities SIG”. Please visit the CIDER site and post your views, comments, and suggestions! http://cider.athabascau.ca pwatland 2008-01-31 11:09:30 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/santec Santec. http://www.santecnetwork.org/ is a new international network that provides a set of free and accessible services much like CIDER, but more focussed on an international and development issues. The list of directors is long and consist of many well known and accomplished distance education and educational technology specialists. Services include collaborative WIKI, F2F and virtual conference and lists and links to resources. terrya 2007-02-05 12:30:13 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/08mar08 Registration for the 4th annual Leading Learning Conference (May 4-6) Toronto, Ontario is now open. Leading Learning is jointly sponsored by York University, Trilllium Lakelands, York Region, Peel, Toronto Catholic district school boards. Please visit www.leadinglearning.org for conference details. pwatland 2008-03-07 09:19:42 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/18april08 You are invited to join this three week online conference designed to inform, inspire and lead to actions that insure that Canadians maximize the opportunities presented by new technologies and associated pedagogies. Co-sponsored by Learning Technologies Centre – University of Manitoba , BCcampus, the Canadian Institute for Distance Education Research, and Elluminate. pwatland 2008-04-18 14:44:04 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/socialcapitalbook Social Capital Modeling in Virtual Communities: Bayesian Belief Network Approaches by Ben K. Daniel, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Nice to see a new book by a new Canadian Scholar Available May from www.info-sci-ref.com “This book represents a landmark consideration of the origin, diverse meanings, types, dimensions, components, measurements methods, sources, and positive and negative consequences of social capital, with a particular emphasis on how to model social capital within virtual communities.” Authored by: Ben Daniel, University of Saskatchewan terrya 2009-01-14 11:50:11 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/news_item.2007-12-17.9176153694 The CIDER site has been updated with a number of 2008 conferences and workshops. pwatland 2007-12-17 15:26:59 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/me2udemo Here is an Elluminate recording by Terry Anderson demonstrating the Me2u.athabascau.ca instance of the social software elgg.net terrya 2006-03-22 19:10:21 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/Connectivism George Siemen's ADETA sponsored Elluminate talk on Rethinking Learning is well worth a listen! terrya 2006-03-27 19:37:05 http://cider.athabascau.ca/Members/terrya/aacebook Call for book chapters - Emerging Technologies for Learning: Impact on Cognition and Culture terrya 2009-08-11 11:34:01 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/Moodle Canada Moot 2009: April 1 - 4, 2009 Edmonton, Alberta. Help spread the word! Please forward to your friends and colleagues bmcconkey 2009-01-05 15:45:37 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/13march08 Under "Events and Opportunities" of the CIDER site (http://cider.athabascau.ca) we have added a new position available at a CIDER friendly organization. If you wish to advertise Distance Education or Instructional Design related jobs, please forward details to Philip Watland - philipw@athabscau.ca - and we will post them for you. pwatland 2008-03-13 09:06:55 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/news_item.2008-03-16.5879084085 For those who missed our most recent CIDER session titled “The Use of Whiteboards in Synchronous Online Drop-In Tutorials in Distance Delivered Courses”, the Elluminate and mp3 recording of this session is now available from our archive at http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERSessions/sessionarchive/. PLEASE NOTE: To complement this session, and for those that missed it, we have opened a text forum on CIDER where we may continue the discussions generated in the session. The forum is available in our Special Interest Groups section at http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERSIGs/lshaw/. pwatland 2008-03-17 08:03:27 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/cniecall4proposals The Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) is proud to present its inaugural conference, hosted by Athabasca University. The conference will be held April 27-30, 2008 in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Proposals are welcome in one or more of the five conference tracks (Applied Media Technologies/Emerging Technologies, Educational Technology/Instructional Design, Distance and Open Education, Policy and Administration, and K-12) and may include research papers, discussion papers, innovative projects and practices, case studies, or literature reviews. pwatland 2007-12-18 14:14:24 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/cnie Registration is now open for the 2009 Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) International Conference terrya 2009-01-14 11:36:44 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/Conference_listings Clayton R. Wright has updated his list of education technology related conferences for 2006-7. See http://cider.athabascau.ca/events/conferences/ terrya 2006-09-14 13:08:03 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/Online%20Learner%20Competencies%20Survey bmcconkey 2011-03-09 14:07:48 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/CIDER-2ndWorkshop Sparking and Sustaining Innovation through Research in Distance Education was the theme of the 2nd Annual CIDER Workshop held a the CADE/AMTEC Conference in Montreal. While not all presenters gave PowerPoint presentations, those that did now have their presentations posted on CIDER's main webpage. paulah 2006-05-29 13:19:21 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/philsarrival Dr Philip Watland has just arrived to augment CIDER staff and add his research experiences and expertise to the Athabasca University and CIDER communities. terrya 2007-09-26 11:01:16 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/irrodlenews In 2007, the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (www.irrodl.org) and five other international scientific journals launched a common call for papers on the theme "distance education and the right - or access - to education". This special issue of the IRRODL contains seven of the peer reviewed articles in the combined collection. pwatland 2008-02-27 12:54:48 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/15april08 For those who missed our most recent CIDER session titled “The Personal Research Portal: The Virtual Faculty or the Net behind the Classroom”, the Elluminate and mp3 recording of this session is now available from our archive at http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERSessions/sessionarchive/. pwatland 2008-04-15 14:52:33 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/jobs Under "Events and Opportunities" of the CIDER site we have added three new positions available at CIDER friendly organizations. If you are looking for employment or wish to advertise DE or instructional design related jobs, please forward details and we will post them for you. Terry Anderson terrya 2007-03-27 09:35:03 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/cniereg Registration for the 2008 CNIE-RCIÉ conference is now open. Pour plus de renseignements veuillez visiter le site-ouebe du congrès - Please visit the conference website for more information: http://www.athabascau.ca/CNIE-RCIE/ pwatland 2008-02-08 08:15:07 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/news10feb08 Recently JISC published a guide for researchers and course evaluators that suggests 1) most of the current e-Learning research is from the practitioner’s perspective and when the learners’ perspective is considered, these studies fail to gather evidence on the effect of e-Learning on the learning experience. And 2) further research is needed that employs methods such as – longitudinal studies, comparison of actual with expected use of technology, purposive sampling, more than one type of data collection technique, and conforms to sound ethical principles. pwatland 2008-02-11 10:13:58 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/2008-01 The CIDER Bulletin lists all the new tools and resources we have added to the CIDER Website this month. pwatland 2008-03-05 13:53:05 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/18feb2000 For those who missed our most recent CIDER session by Dr. David Annand, Gunnar Schwede and Mike Procter titled “Using 3D Virtual Worlds: Engaging Learners and Providing Social Support”, the Elluminate and mp3 recording of this session is now available from our archive at http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERSessions/sessionarchive/. pwatland 2008-02-18 15:54:18 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/2news2008 The Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada are seeking applications for the position of Project Manager, E-learning. The deadline to apply is January 18th, 2008. pwatland 2008-01-04 12:53:33 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/irrodl The latest issue of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (www.irrodl.org), published by CIDER, is now online. Insung Jung PhD, has kindly brought you a regional focus issue entitled: "Changing Faces of Open and Distance Eduction in Asia." paulah 2007-03-19 12:43:19 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/TAsurvey A recent survey by Athabasca MDE students Denis Tanguay and Phillip Potts, illustrates the value of Transaction Distance Theory in understanding the MDE experience of students terrya 2007-04-20 15:42:10 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/19feb2008 A recent article in the New York Times by Patricia Cohen (Feb 12, 2008) states that Harvard faculty members are voting on a measure that would allow them the option of distributing their scholarship online rather than via traditional scholarly journals. pwatland 2008-02-19 15:45:39 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/elearningreviews CIDER members may find the reviews provided by 'eLearning Reviews' of interest. The Swiss Centre for Innovations in Learning (SCIL) provided the initial funding, implemented the software for elearning-reviews.org, created the topic structure, and seeded the site with it's first 100 reviews. Topics include Pedagogy,Human Computer Interaction, Strategy, Technology, Quality, Resource Management, and Competence Development. Reviews can be searched by keywords and synonyms, authors, journals, conferences, and organizations. The link address is:http://www.elearning-reviews.org/ pwatland 2008-02-20 09:54:12 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/statscdnnews A Statistics Canada report states "Just over one-quarter (26%) of adult Canadians, an estimated 6.4 million, went online during 2005 for education, training or school work". Further, that "The most common type of education-related use of the Internet was to research information for project assignments or for solving academic problems". The full report titled 'Learning online: Factors associated with use of the Internet for education purposes' is available at http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/81-004-XIE/2007004/internet-en.htm pwatland 2007-12-20 10:43:18 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/cidersessionnews For those who missed our most recent CIDER session by Dr. Jon Dron titled “Designing the undesignable: Social software and control”, the Elluminate recording of his presentation, a pdf of his article and power point presentation is now available for downloading from our archive. Past CIDER sessions are available for downloading at http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERSessions/sessionarchive/. pwatland 2007-12-21 13:26:48 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/apacitation terrya 2006-11-08 15:26:20 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/agent terrya 2006-11-22 12:19:11 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/news_item.2007-12-19.6509586298 The latest issue of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (www.irrodl.org), published by CIDER, Volume 8, No. 3, is now online. This open issue is guest edited by Dr. Heather Kanuka. pwatland 2007-12-19 09:39:10 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/15feb08 The Web Center for Social Research Methods (http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/) will likely be of interest to CIDER members involved or interested in applied social research and evaluation in Distance Education. One resource in particular that CIDER members may find of value is an online version of "The Research Methods Knowledge Base" by William M.K. Trochim. This text is a comprehensive web-based textbook that addresses topics typically found in an introductory undergraduate or graduate course in social research methods. The site also has a number of other resources as well as links to other locations on the Web that deal in applied social research methods. pwatland 2008-02-15 14:50:53 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/research1 *Are you an online educator at a regionally accredited institution of higher education? *Are you concerned about the occurrence of plagiarism in online courses? *Are you interested in how instructional design may help to deter plagiarism in online courses? paulah 2007-02-21 12:02:10 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/2008-02 The CIDER Bulletin lists all the new research resources that have been added to the CIDER Website this month. pwatland 2008-02-26 11:52:17 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/feb608 For those who missed our most recent CIDER session by Deana Halonen titled “Problem Based Learning in Distance Education: A Case Study”, the Elluminate recording of her session and her power point presentation are now available from our archive at http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERSessions/sessionarchive/. pwatland 2008-02-06 09:48:14 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/ciderwiki PB Wiki was used for evaluation comments on the recent CIDER Research Seminar. Check out the use of this tool for publically accessible and a very easy to use and manage evaluation tool. terrya 2006-06-01 11:17:09 http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERnews/edtechconference Clayton Wright has updated his listings of conferences from January to August 2009 terrya 2009-01-09 14:29:04