I know some of the post below is somewhat obvious for many of you but the question about who benefits from open educational resources and how one benefits has come up several times during the past month or two and I have responded in similar ways each time.
Open education and open educational resources (OER) continue to explode. OpenCourseWare (OCW) from MIT is well known but just a small percent of all the course material now available for free. I talk about all of this in my upcoming World is Open book; especially in Chapters 4-6. But why would instructors or institutions offer their course content online? I was interviewed last week for the Christian Science Monitor about this (this article will likely appear in May). My reply is below.
They were also interested in why or how someone might want to use these contents; especially those who are unemployed or at risk of losing their jobs. It is a good question. Does anyone have an example of someone using OER or OCW to get a new job? Does anyone have an example of someone posting OER or OCW courses browsed or completed on his or her resume? I was asked such questions. Seems these questions will be asked more and more if the economy does not rebound. Even if it does, there will be many wanting to know the benefits of all this free and open content. Ok, again, here was part of my reply...read on...
A. Here are 10 reasons that instructors share course contents online:
1. Market their courses.
2. Make it easy for students to find course materials. It is simultaneously easy for the instructor to find things--this is a more important reason than you might realize; I use my online syllabi and course material all the time. I no longer have to go find it in a file drawer or stack somewhere. This saves a huge amount of time!
3. Allow students (and others) to replay lectures and learn it better.
4. Share instruction and pedagogical ideas with other professors and scholars.
5. Create a base of lectures that students can watch so that when they come to class, they can engage in higher level activities (it is assumed that they have watched the lectures).
6. To get feedback from others on the contents.
7. The same course might have different instructors. Posting the contents will help standardize some of it and push each other to be the best teachers they can be.
8. Experimentation and risk--keeps you fresh and excited about teaching and your profession.
9. Personal growth.
10. Someone may have asked you to share and so you did.
B. Here are 10 reasons institutions of higher learning like MIT, Notre Dame, Tufts, Utah State, and Johns Hopkins place courses and programs online:
1. They are in the business to generate, archive, and disseminate knowledge. OCW is a highly effective way to disseminate course information.
2. To help potential students find majors that might be interesting.
3. To retool and provide professional development opportunities for alumni and bring them back to campus virtually.
4. To foster sharing of teaching across the campus or campuses, and, thereby, increase standards of teaching excellence. It helps instructors reflect on their teaching practices.
5. It is a major marketing tool for the university as well as for specific departments and programs.
6. Goodwill. People in third world countries might have access to college content that would normally not be available. Nutrition, wellness, family planning, etc., courses can be made available to people from Africa or other countries who are in need of it. This is another huge reason--global education and transnational education is exploding today!
7. New partnerships and programs may arise from it.
8. People outside the university might lend feedback on the contents that are posted and perhaps even find and point out errors.
9. These courses might help the country and the world during difficult economic times like right now.
10. A world community can begin discussions about human rights to education. Universal rights. Conferences can be formed, books can be written, research can be undertaken, etc. And all this is happening, of course. There is a Declaration of Open Education first made in Cape Town in September 2007 which you can sign. Smile.
C. 10 reasons why someone might use OER and other online contents:
1. To find a university to enroll in.
2. To find a major or area of concentration that one might be interested in pursuing. In fact, open educational resources might show someone a unique intersection between contents. It is in the intersections of knowledge wherein interesting things happen.
3. To learn new or important skills before going back to college as a returning adult student.
4. Or perhaps one is worried he or she might be laid off. It is a safety valve--to be prepared just in case.
5. To receive free professional development related to one's current job without having to take time off from work. Perhaps such courses might show initiative and keep one from getting a pink slip. It could also prepare one for a new job. To be able to say that you learned some technology, leadership, or management skills online is critical. And today it is possible. But with so much available today, new skills are needed in selecting content to learn and how to go through it.
6. To network with instructors and experts in a field or domain. To get apprenticed--but you must take the initiative to contact the course instructor or designers. Exposure to a set of experts and a field can help transform one's life.
7. To create one's own learning path. Self-selected informal learning may be the norm in 10-15 years. Perhaps it already is and we do not yet realize it.
8. To learn material from instructors at leading universities whom you would never otherwise learn from since your SAT or GRE scores are not high enough. Anyone can now learn from instructors at Berkeley, Stanford, and MIT. How cool is that? Elitism is fading fast!
9. As with online learning in general, with OCW, a student is no longer confined to a set time, place, duration, etc. for learning. With OCW, she can learn at the time she wants and at any location with access. She is no longer confined to eyeball-to-eyeball or earpan-to-earpan learning. She now has options and flexibility. And she does not have to drive into a campus setting and find parking and fight traffic to do so. Convenience and flexibility in learning! And it may be the only option given work, family, money, etc. I took television courses and correspondence courses to get into graduate school. OCW might provide people with the motivation, skills, and backgrounds to prepare for degree programs.
10. To be able to look back on your life when nearing retirement (or at any time for that matter) and saying to yourself, that I was able to pursue all my learning interests. And to do so on my own time and my own terms.
D. 10 OER Types of Resources and Organizations:
1. Open Educational Resources (OER) Commons: http://www.oercommons.org/
2. National Repository of Online Courses:
http://www.oercommons.org/courses/collection/national-repository-of-online-courses-nroc
3. Skip the Tuition: 100 Free Podcasts from the Best Colleges in the World (1/28/2008):
http://oedb.org/library/beginning-online-learning/skip-the-tuition:-100-free-podcasts-from-the-best-colleges-in-the-world
4. 100 Best Websites for Free Adult Education:
http://www.onlinedegreeworld.com/blog/2009/100-best-websites-for-free-adult-education/
5. 100+ Free Websites to Learn Anything about Everything (from Jane Hart in the UK):
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/Showcase/100anything.html
6. I just found this one: 100 of the Weirdest Open Courseware Classes that Anyone can Take:
http://www.onlinebestcolleges.com/blog/2009/100-weirdest-open-courseware-classes-that-anyone-can-take/
7. Center for Sustainable Online Learning (COSL) at Utah State University: http://cosl.usu.edu/
8. Open Educational Resources Handbook (edited by David Wiley): http://www.lulu.com/content/3597933 (free or paid); http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_63/3597000/3597933/3/print/oerhandbookfinal-gray2.pdf
9. Flat World Knowledge: http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/
10. The Peer to Peer University (P2PU): http://www.peer2peeruniversity.org/; http://www.peer2peeruniversity.org/faq
As can be seen from the above, the world is not flat. No...the world is open. It is definitely open for learning! And I think OER and OCW can benefit almost anyone who is unemployed who has an Internet connection. They will need guidance and tutoring, however.
For more information on the open education revolution, see: Bonk, C. J. (in press for July 2009). The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Wiley.
I will be getting 25 prepublication copies in the mail on Thursday. Finally! It can already be ordered online from Amazon, Borders, Barnes and Noble, etc.
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Online Learning Trend Article for Commission for Accelerated Programs (CAP) Newsletter
Last summer, I gave a few talks (including a couple of keynotes) at the summer workshop for the Commissions for Accelerated Programs (CAP). This event was held on the northwest side of the Denver area (not too far from Boulder). At the end of it, I was given a CAP cap to wear. About a month after the workshop in Denver, the CAP people asked me to write an article for their fall newsletter addressing the future of online learning and current trends that I saw. I sent them a short article back in September or October and it finally came out a week or two ago. It is free online. Here it is:
Bonk, C. J. (2009, April). Online learning frameworks: Past, present, and future. Newsletter from Commission on Accelerated Programs, #6, Available: http://www.capnetwork.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=82
The article re"caps" some of my journey in this space called "e-learning" or "online learning." And it includes frameworks from three of my books.
By the way, I will be in Korea from May 7-19. My travels will take me to many places though mainly to Seoul. I will be speaking at Inha University in Incheon on May 7th; Hanyang Cyber University in Seoul on May 8th; Kwangwoon University and Kyung-Hee University Seoul on May 11th; Chungbuk National University in Cheongju City on May 12th; Chungnam National Univeristy in Daejeon and Kyumyung University in Daegu on May 13th; Seoul National University for the Korea Society for Educational Tech (KSET) conference workshop on May 15th and conference keynote on May 16th (Program for KSET: http://www.kset.or.kr/); and Ewha Womens University in Seoul with a possible visit to Yonsei University on May 18th. I depart back for Indiana on May 19th.
As indicated, in Seoul, I will keynote the Korean Society for Educational Technology (KSET) conference on May 16th. My talk will attempt to summarize my "The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education" book. See the WorldIsOpen Website for more details. The book comes out July 13th. Hope to see you there! Drop me a note if you will see me at any of my stops.
Bonk, C. J. (2009, April). Online learning frameworks: Past, present, and future. Newsletter from Commission on Accelerated Programs, #6, Available: http://www.capnetwork.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=82
The article re"caps" some of my journey in this space called "e-learning" or "online learning." And it includes frameworks from three of my books.
By the way, I will be in Korea from May 7-19. My travels will take me to many places though mainly to Seoul. I will be speaking at Inha University in Incheon on May 7th; Hanyang Cyber University in Seoul on May 8th; Kwangwoon University and Kyung-Hee University Seoul on May 11th; Chungbuk National University in Cheongju City on May 12th; Chungnam National Univeristy in Daejeon and Kyumyung University in Daegu on May 13th; Seoul National University for the Korea Society for Educational Tech (KSET) conference workshop on May 15th and conference keynote on May 16th (Program for KSET: http://www.kset.or.kr/); and Ewha Womens University in Seoul with a possible visit to Yonsei University on May 18th. I depart back for Indiana on May 19th.
As indicated, in Seoul, I will keynote the Korean Society for Educational Technology (KSET) conference on May 16th. My talk will attempt to summarize my "The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education" book. See the WorldIsOpen Website for more details. The book comes out July 13th. Hope to see you there! Drop me a note if you will see me at any of my stops.
Monday, 20 April 2009
The World is Open through a Wiley Webinar
Sorry I have not posted lately. I was at the American Educational Research Association (AERA) meeting in San Diego this past week. And I stayed a few extra days with my colleague, Tom Reynolds, before and after. Tom lives near La Jolla. During AERA, I presented a couple of papers on YouTube and also gave a keynote on my World is Open book to a Chinese research special interest group. My son, Alex, was on the YouTube papers and presentations. These are his first conference papers. Hooray! Alex is a 21 year old sociology student at Indiana University. He may double major in fine arts.
So last week was southern California--great running on the beaches of Torrey Pines and Delmar this past weekend. Two weeks prior, I was in mid to northern California from Santa Barbara to Santa Maria to San Luis Obispo to Monterey to San Francisco to Berkeley. It was some week! Many great pictures were taken.
I stayed with Ron Owston from York University when in Santa Barbara for one night. He was finishing his sabbatical there. Then I drove up the coast and spoke on online learning and technology integration at community colleges--Alan Hancock in Santa Maria and Cuesta Community College in San Luis Obispo. The farmers market and music scene in San Luis Obispo on a Thursday night is incredible! It was fun to hear what both of these colleges were up to. Beautiful places. After that, I spent Friday afternoon (April 10th) driving up the coast on highway 1 to Monterey. When I got there, I saw 3 of my former students for dinner and breakfast. After a night there, I dropped off my car and YaTing Teng, a doctoral candidate from the University of Illinois picked me up and took me to Jay Cross' house in Berkeley for an YouTube interview on my World is Open book. I had helped YaTing get an internship at Adobe last year in San Jose so she was kind enough to come get me and take me around. After the session with Jay, 10 friends and former students met in an Asia bistro in Milbrae (in the South Bay area of San Francisco) for dinner. I stayed with Peter Young that night in Pacifica and he took me to the airport at 4 am the next morning.
So I continue to be on the road. Next up are 2 short trips to Illinois (one for a dissertation defense and one to help a small college think about the future of colleges and future of libraries and such). After that, I journey to Korea from May 6 to 19th for a series of talks at various places including Incheon, Seoul, Daegu, and Seoul again. Former students and colleagues are taking care of me each day. While I am speaking at many places, I am mainly going there to keynote the Korean Society for Educational Technology (KSET) conference on May 16th. I will present a talk related to my World is Open book. It will be great to catch up with many of my Korean friends!
Tomorrow I will also speak on the World is Open book for Wiley Publishing (the actual title of the book us: "The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education"). My webinar with Wiley is in the afternoon (tomorrow Tuesday April 21st) from 4-5 pm EST. It is free to attend. More information is here:
http://www.wiley.com/college/wfn/seminars/disclandEducation.html
http://www.wiley.com/college/wfn/seminars/semland301.html?Education
More on this talk:
According to Thomas Friedman's book, The World is Flat, worldwide economic trends are flattening. In education, however, opportunities for learning are actually expanding or opening up through a myriad of emerging distance technologies. These opportunities can be seen in ten technology trends that spell the acronym: "WE-ALL-LEARN." From online content in the form of e-books, podcasts, streamed videos, and satellite maps to participatory environments such as social networking, wikis, and alternate reality worlds, technology-based learning continues to open new learning pathways. At the same time, more instructors are sharing their course materials and teaching ideas globally, thereby expanding learning opportunities and resources. And the software used to deliver such online learning contents and experiences is increasingly available as open source. Naturally, many questions surround such systems, sites, and resources. For example, how can instructors and learners in developed and developing countries take advantage of these trends? For what purpose will people share? How can these trends converge to address individual learner's needs worldwide? Curt Bonk will address these issues while enticing participants to think of implications for their organizations, countries, and regions of the world as well as for themselves as leaders and learners.
More on the book (it comes out on July 13th): http://worldisopen.com/
Hope to see you there!!! I sent final page proofs back to the publisher this afternoon. Next, I need to work with all the cut text and turn it into a free book.
So last week was southern California--great running on the beaches of Torrey Pines and Delmar this past weekend. Two weeks prior, I was in mid to northern California from Santa Barbara to Santa Maria to San Luis Obispo to Monterey to San Francisco to Berkeley. It was some week! Many great pictures were taken.
I stayed with Ron Owston from York University when in Santa Barbara for one night. He was finishing his sabbatical there. Then I drove up the coast and spoke on online learning and technology integration at community colleges--Alan Hancock in Santa Maria and Cuesta Community College in San Luis Obispo. The farmers market and music scene in San Luis Obispo on a Thursday night is incredible! It was fun to hear what both of these colleges were up to. Beautiful places. After that, I spent Friday afternoon (April 10th) driving up the coast on highway 1 to Monterey. When I got there, I saw 3 of my former students for dinner and breakfast. After a night there, I dropped off my car and YaTing Teng, a doctoral candidate from the University of Illinois picked me up and took me to Jay Cross' house in Berkeley for an YouTube interview on my World is Open book. I had helped YaTing get an internship at Adobe last year in San Jose so she was kind enough to come get me and take me around. After the session with Jay, 10 friends and former students met in an Asia bistro in Milbrae (in the South Bay area of San Francisco) for dinner. I stayed with Peter Young that night in Pacifica and he took me to the airport at 4 am the next morning.
So I continue to be on the road. Next up are 2 short trips to Illinois (one for a dissertation defense and one to help a small college think about the future of colleges and future of libraries and such). After that, I journey to Korea from May 6 to 19th for a series of talks at various places including Incheon, Seoul, Daegu, and Seoul again. Former students and colleagues are taking care of me each day. While I am speaking at many places, I am mainly going there to keynote the Korean Society for Educational Technology (KSET) conference on May 16th. I will present a talk related to my World is Open book. It will be great to catch up with many of my Korean friends!
Tomorrow I will also speak on the World is Open book for Wiley Publishing (the actual title of the book us: "The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education"). My webinar with Wiley is in the afternoon (tomorrow Tuesday April 21st) from 4-5 pm EST. It is free to attend. More information is here:
http://www.wiley.com/college/wfn/seminars/disclandEducation.html
http://www.wiley.com/college/wfn/seminars/semland301.html?Education
According to Thomas Friedman's book, The World is Flat, worldwide economic trends are flattening. In education, however, opportunities for learning are actually expanding or opening up through a myriad of emerging distance technologies. These opportunities can be seen in ten technology trends that spell the acronym: "WE-ALL-LEARN." From online content in the form of e-books, podcasts, streamed videos, and satellite maps to participatory environments such as social networking, wikis, and alternate reality worlds, technology-based learning continues to open new learning pathways. At the same time, more instructors are sharing their course materials and teaching ideas globally, thereby expanding learning opportunities and resources. And the software used to deliver such online learning contents and experiences is increasingly available as open source. Naturally, many questions surround such systems, sites, and resources. For example, how can instructors and learners in developed and developing countries take advantage of these trends? For what purpose will people share? How can these trends converge to address individual learner's needs worldwide? Curt Bonk will address these issues while enticing participants to think of implications for their organizations, countries, and regions of the world as well as for themselves as leaders and learners.
More on the book (it comes out on July 13th): http://worldisopen.com/
Hope to see you there!!! I sent final page proofs back to the publisher this afternoon. Next, I need to work with all the cut text and turn it into a free book.
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
eLearn Magazine asks what you would tell President Obama if you were the new Secretary of Education
My friend, Lisa Neal from eLearn Magazine sent a few of us the email below.
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Lisa Neal Gualtieri wrote:
Hi ...
I went to a well-attended event in Boston last week on Transforming Healthcare with an illustrious panel who completely blew the most interesting question they were asked: If you were the new Secretary of Health and Human Services, what is the first thing you would say to President Obama. A lot of the focus of the session was on the economic stimulus package.
I instead will ask you: If you are the new Secretary of Education, what is the first thing you would tell President Obama?
I will post your responses in the eLearn blog.
I hope to hear back from you today if possible.
Thanks,
Lisa
--
Lisa Neal Gualtieri, Ph.D.
Adjunct Clinical Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Blog on health: http://lisagualtieri.com
Editor-in-Chief, eLearn Magazine, http://eLearnMag.org
Blog on education: http://blog.acm.org/elearn/
=======================================
Here is my response:
Mr. President:
I have not heard back from you on the letter I sent you back on December 1st about the world becoming more open for learning and to see if you wanted to read a preview copy of my book, “The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education.” It is ok, I know you are busy with this economic crisis. I can dust off my CPA license if you need help there but I prefer not to.
I actually believe you can skip those boring meetings with economic advisors. Instead, take a look at the educational possibilities of the Web. As you know from your Blackberry days (which I guess you still have), the Web is transforming education in front of our eyes. When I saw you give your speech here in Bloomington last April 30th, I felt a sense that you realized this and so I voted for you instead of Hillary. Now that you have won, you need people in the Department of Education who can help you (and me) make sense of this transformation. I think that there are ten trends that are of particular importance. They spell the acronym, WE-ALL-LEARN. I list them for you below.
Ten Openers: (WE-ALL-LEARN)
Web Searching in the World of e-Books
E-Learning and Blended Learning
Availability of Open Source and Free Software
Leveraged Resources and OpenCourseWare
Learning Object Repositories and Portals
Learner Participation in Open Information Communities
Electronic Collaboration
Alternate Reality Learning
Real-Time Mobility and Portability
Networks of Personalized Learning
If any one of these trends would have happened in the past, it would have been a dramatic change in education. In fact, if just one person had learned online in 1959 (50 years ago), that person would have been Time’s person of the year. And that is just one trend or opener (opener #2)! But all ten openers are happening simultaneously. Instead of the new players, playing fields, and management processes that Thomas Friedman discusses in his World is Flat book, in education we have a different set of “p’s”—piping, pages of content, and a participatory learning culture. This is a triple convergence that any of the previous 43 presidents would have loved to see happening in such an economic crisis. Again, I am happy to send you my book if you want to read it.
So instead of more back to the basics and adding still more test scores and assessments, we have to open doors to learning and make that the focus. Active and contributory learning where learners are active in their own learning pursuits should underlie all educational reform efforts, not comparisons to other countries, previous test scores, or some other set of silly statistics. In contrast to smaller countries or those with fewer natural resources which are forced to standardize everything, in the United States we need an educational system that fosters learning that you cannot plan for or preprescribe. Simply put, we need to focus on creativity, innovation, ambition, and perpetual learning and human development. We need motivated younger as well as older learners. To attain such goals, we need educational leaders who ignite a passion for learning. And for those in Asia and other countries who are bored with traditional teach and test educational methods all-too-common in such places, we can open our doors. As Thomas Friedman called for two weeks ago in the NY Times, allow millions more smart people from China, Korea, India, and other countries to immigrating to the USA and build the next Google’s, Livemocha’s, and Yahoo!’s. If we can combine more creative people coming to the country with an educational system focused on nurturing creative talent, watch out world, we will be the ones solving the world’s problems! Is no doubt!
The time is ripe for so many things. Education can lead us out of this economic crisis. For the first time in the history of this country, our education leaders are simultaneously our economic leaders, not the other way around. As the Grail Knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade suggested, “choose wisely .” If you do, then WE-ALL-LEARN. I wish you well. And I also wish that we, in fact, do all learn.
====================================
Oh by the way, my "The World is Open" book is now in Amazon now for preordering!
http://www.amazon.com/World-Open-Technology-Revolutionizing-Education/dp/0470461306/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235725774&sr=1-5
The book will be out in July and in bookstores in August. Write to me if you want a book synopsis or additional information.
Ok, what if you were the new Secretary of Health and Human Services? What would you tell President Obama?
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Lisa Neal Gualtieri wrote:
Hi ...
I went to a well-attended event in Boston last week on Transforming Healthcare with an illustrious panel who completely blew the most interesting question they were asked: If you were the new Secretary of Health and Human Services, what is the first thing you would say to President Obama. A lot of the focus of the session was on the economic stimulus package.
I instead will ask you: If you are the new Secretary of Education, what is the first thing you would tell President Obama?
I will post your responses in the eLearn blog.
I hope to hear back from you today if possible.
Thanks,
Lisa
--
Lisa Neal Gualtieri, Ph.D.
Adjunct Clinical Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
Blog on health: http://lisagualtieri.com
Editor-in-Chief, eLearn Magazine, http://eLearnMag.org
Blog on education: http://blog.acm.org/elearn/
=======================================
Here is my response:
Mr. President:
I have not heard back from you on the letter I sent you back on December 1st about the world becoming more open for learning and to see if you wanted to read a preview copy of my book, “The World is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education.” It is ok, I know you are busy with this economic crisis. I can dust off my CPA license if you need help there but I prefer not to.
I actually believe you can skip those boring meetings with economic advisors. Instead, take a look at the educational possibilities of the Web. As you know from your Blackberry days (which I guess you still have), the Web is transforming education in front of our eyes. When I saw you give your speech here in Bloomington last April 30th, I felt a sense that you realized this and so I voted for you instead of Hillary. Now that you have won, you need people in the Department of Education who can help you (and me) make sense of this transformation. I think that there are ten trends that are of particular importance. They spell the acronym, WE-ALL-LEARN. I list them for you below.
Ten Openers: (WE-ALL-LEARN)
Web Searching in the World of e-Books
E-Learning and Blended Learning
Availability of Open Source and Free Software
Leveraged Resources and OpenCourseWare
Learning Object Repositories and Portals
Learner Participation in Open Information Communities
Electronic Collaboration
Alternate Reality Learning
Real-Time Mobility and Portability
Networks of Personalized Learning
If any one of these trends would have happened in the past, it would have been a dramatic change in education. In fact, if just one person had learned online in 1959 (50 years ago), that person would have been Time’s person of the year. And that is just one trend or opener (opener #2)! But all ten openers are happening simultaneously. Instead of the new players, playing fields, and management processes that Thomas Friedman discusses in his World is Flat book, in education we have a different set of “p’s”—piping, pages of content, and a participatory learning culture. This is a triple convergence that any of the previous 43 presidents would have loved to see happening in such an economic crisis. Again, I am happy to send you my book if you want to read it.
So instead of more back to the basics and adding still more test scores and assessments, we have to open doors to learning and make that the focus. Active and contributory learning where learners are active in their own learning pursuits should underlie all educational reform efforts, not comparisons to other countries, previous test scores, or some other set of silly statistics. In contrast to smaller countries or those with fewer natural resources which are forced to standardize everything, in the United States we need an educational system that fosters learning that you cannot plan for or preprescribe. Simply put, we need to focus on creativity, innovation, ambition, and perpetual learning and human development. We need motivated younger as well as older learners. To attain such goals, we need educational leaders who ignite a passion for learning. And for those in Asia and other countries who are bored with traditional teach and test educational methods all-too-common in such places, we can open our doors. As Thomas Friedman called for two weeks ago in the NY Times, allow millions more smart people from China, Korea, India, and other countries to immigrating to the USA and build the next Google’s, Livemocha’s, and Yahoo!’s. If we can combine more creative people coming to the country with an educational system focused on nurturing creative talent, watch out world, we will be the ones solving the world’s problems! Is no doubt!
The time is ripe for so many things. Education can lead us out of this economic crisis. For the first time in the history of this country, our education leaders are simultaneously our economic leaders, not the other way around. As the Grail Knight in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade suggested, “choose wisely .” If you do, then WE-ALL-LEARN. I wish you well. And I also wish that we, in fact, do all learn.
====================================
Oh by the way, my "The World is Open" book is now in Amazon now for preordering!
http://www.amazon.com/World-Open-Technology-Revolutionizing-Education/dp/0470461306/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1235725774&sr=1-5
The book will be out in July and in bookstores in August. Write to me if you want a book synopsis or additional information.
Ok, what if you were the new Secretary of Health and Human Services? What would you tell President Obama?
TravelinEdMan has been traveling
I realize that I have not posted to my blog in nearly 2 months. As my blog name indicates, I have been traveling.
Dubai and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE): On January 25, I went to the United Arab Emirates including Dubai and Abu Dhabi. I gave talks at Dubai Men's College and visited Abu Dhabi Men's College that week. These are both part of the Higher Colleges of Technology in the UAE (see Wikipedia for more). I also saw the Burge Dubai (the world's tallest building) and the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi. I forget how many billion they spent on this place but it is definitely a cool place! My friend, Paul Mace from Abu Dhabi Men's College seems to know everyone in this hotel. They are all recorded in his Blackberry. Here is a pic or 2 from it.
Just driving up to the Emirates Palace Hotel is an exillerating experience.
Camera looking up in the middle of the Emirates Palace Hotel. What a cool shot that was. Thanks to Paul Mace for suggesting that!
How would you like to hold a conference event here? What a place that is! And sometimes Paul, in fact, does run events there.
Future expansion plans in Abu Dhabi are pretty amazing too!
This is just the entryway into Abu Dhabi Men's College (ADMC). Wow! What a place.
A view of the Abu Dhabi Men's College campus.
And they bring in very famous people all the time. Here is a picture of soccer great, Pele, who recently visited. I remember doing a paper on him in ninth grade oh so long ago! He was my idol at the time even though we never played soccer in the USA then. If the Higher Colleges of Technology have a conference, they will undoubtedly bring in some famous people and very cool laser light show and perhaps some camel rides.
ADMC is technology rich. Paul Mace demos a few new devices to me for language instruction.
The director of ADMC show me his mobile device. They are moving in a mobile diretion there.
They are creating a new podcasting studio. Again, they are highly planful about technology use in education.
Like I said, lots of technology there.
Paul Mace knows the world is open:
I saw many friends in the UAE including Mark Curcher in Dubai and Bob Craig and Paul Mace in Abu Dhabi. Mark showed me around Dubai so that was fabulous. He works at Dubai Men's College which is about the host the Education Without Borders Conference in early April. I presented at that conference six years ago.
The road and buildings across from Dubai Men's College.
The entryway at Dubai Men's College. The Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) people sure have supported this place. it is really nice!
Here is a picture we took outside of his college entrance.
I gave 2 talks at his place--one on blended learning and one on my upcoming World is Open book.
A review of my talks was posted to a few news releases under the title, "Learning at Dubai Men's College."
It was also posted at AME Info (Middle East Business Resource).
When in Dubai, I also saw Dr. Robin Mason from the Open University, Dr. Robert Wisher from the Advanced Distributed Learning Lab within the Department of Defense (DOD), Elliott Masie from the Masie Center, Professor Carmel McNaught from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Badrul Khan from Granato Group at an e-learning conference in Dubai outside the sailboat hotel. I used to report to Bob when I was a senior research fellow with the Army Research Institute and then later at the DOD. It was some event!
Here is a pic of Bob, Mark, and I during the conference:
Here is the sailboat hotel at dusk:
Bob Wisher realizes that the world is open now:
View from hotel window in Dubai. Seemed to be a lot of haze and smog in the morning (perhaps just sand in the air from all the construction).
The Burge Dubai (the world's tallest building) stands impressively in front of me as most of the cranes in Duabi have come to a halt.
Building after building in Dubai.
Mass transit is being added. But so many cranes (many of which stand idle right now in this economic crisis).
After a couple of days in Dubai, it was on to Abu Dhabi. I have done that trip a few times before back in 2003 and 2004. It was hard to believe that it had been 4-5 years since I had been there.
Need to see a mosque? No Problem. Plenty of those on the road to Abu Dhabi from Dubai, such as this one.
My wonderful friend, Bob Craig, drove like 8-10 hours from Oman with his new wife, Alexandra, to meet me in Abu Dhabi. You can see the skyline of Abu Dhabi faintly behind them in the distance in the pic below.
You might see it better here:
Bob has met me in many places over the past 7 years including Auckland, New Zealand, Dubai, Abu Dhabi,and London.
Of course, if you are in the Middle East for a couple of weeks you are bound to run into a camel or two...like this one eating my hair:
My friend, Vance Stevens (from the Petroleum Institute and Webheads), and his wife, Bobbi, joined us on my last night in the UAE at an outside pub connected to the Hilton. I stayed with Vance one night during this trip.
Here is a pic I took with Bob Craig before I left Abu Dhabi for Saudi Arabia.
The UAE is an interesting place. But the cranes have stopped. It is sad. The economic crisis seems to have hit them hard. People are leaving their cars at the airport and going home.
Abha, Saudi Arabia: On January 30th, I flew to Abha, Saudi Arabia to speak at King Khalid University (KKU). I gave 11 talks there in 5 days. I stayed in a hotel room there for 6 days and got out two times. Once I got out to speak at their new "temporary campus" and once I got out to meditate on top of a nearby mountain called "green mountain."
Entering my hotel in Abha. It is an incredible feeling; especially after flying in all night from Dubai after stopping in Riyadh. Nice to have a place to put my bags.
A view from the restaurant in my hotel in Abha. What a site to see at each meal!
More views from hotel restaurant.
Views from my elevator.
A view from my room.
The houses off in the distance. Cool views in Abha! Colorful houses--the mayor of the city encouraged a colorful community. Thus, it is different from other parts of Saudi Arabia.
The pictures below are just of the temporary campus for KKU. The temporary campus is amazing and they are just moving into it now. They are building a brand new campus to be done in a few years, which, from the drawings I have seen, is spectacular! Billions spent on it I think. Wikipedia can tell you more about KKU.
On the way home, they did take me to Pizza Hut for dinner (not my selection but ok). Smile. I also got to watch the second half of the Super Bowl using free Internet TV (connected online to some station from Canada). This was my third trip to Saudi Arabia. Abha is a resort town in the southwest corner in the mountains. There are even pine trees there (see pic below).
During the week, I gave 11 talks at KKU. My first one was on how the world was becoming open for learning. By the 11th talk, I had a few people believing me. Perhaps some will be interested in my "The World is Open" book.
This instructor came to all my 11 talks at KKU. Apparently, he had a high tolerance for pain.
Even the camera man for this one week event at KKU found the world was getting more open.
And so was the e-learning program manager who had just arrived from Jordan.
This English teacher from Yemen came to all my talks as well. His name is Aziz. Aziz is great!!! We are still corresponding.
These instructors came to most or all of my 11 talks. What makes it even more amazing is that these were mostly 4 hour talks and it was finals week. Yes, 4 hour talks. Typically from 8 am to noon and then from 4 to 8 pm. The Abha Palace Hotel had great views. It also had a great restaurant where I ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day. It was about all I saw since I presented in the hotel as well.
At the end of my 11th talk, no one wanted to say goodbye. These people are so much fun! Many instructors at KKU are from India, Yemen, Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, and other nearby countries.
I could not say goodbye without KKU people reminding me that the world is truly open for learning now!
KKU is a wonderful place. This is Dr. Abdullah Alwalidi who got his Ph.D. at Kansas State University. He brought me to KKU. He is transforming teaching and learning at KKU with many ambitious plans and goals. Unfortunately, my week was up and it was time to say goodbye.
Stopping in two countries in one trip is hard and even more difficult with customs and such. I would not recommend one do it too often. Carrying luggage and keeping track of my schedule is always difficult. It becomes a tad more so when flying a long way by yourself. But that is often the life of TravelinEdMan. A few years ago, I was giving more than 100 talks a year. It seems I am on pace for that again this year though I do not think I will make it. We will see.
Phoenix and Glendale, Arizona: I got home on February 6th and then flew to Phoenix to speak at Thunderbird School of Global Management on February 11th. I saw my good friend from Arizona State University, Dr. Jim Middleton, when I was there. ASU is putting all faculty on 10 day furloughs and administrators on 12 days ones. Amazing. Jim helped me with my dissertation a long time ago. It was his birthday when I saw him. Jim was just happy to be alive after being hit by a car while crossing the streets of Tempe a couple of years earlier. The story of his survival (flying 20-30 feet) with blood gushing all around him was enough to tell me that my travel schedule is pretty easy and I should have no complaints. And the weather in Phoenix was grand for running.
It was Jim's birthday. So glad to be there for it.
Jim is not sure if the world is open as ASU is facing significant budget cuts.
It took me all day but I think I convinced him:
The Thunderbird people seem perched in an interesting spot--they specialize in training for global managers and leaders and are exploring innovative global ways for doing so (i.e., teaching on the Web). Their MBA is ranked #1 in many quarters and they have excellent instructors and program developers. Of course, the cost is not cheap as I think their online MBA is only second in price to Duke. Thunderbird also has a partnership with the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University; actually with our Kelley Direct (KD) program. They have many other partnerships (e.g., with those in Asia and South America) and are seeking more.
Houston, Texas: I came back from Phoenix on February 13th and then a few days later flew to Houston to speak to the University of Texas School of Public Health. I was in Houston February 17th to the 20th. Many great meals were eaten there. I have been to Houston 6 times since November 2006. I got the Houston Museum of Modern Art for one of my final meals. The medical complex in Houston is immense as is the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. People from the UT School of Public Health, School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, School of Nursing, and healthcare informatics people came to both talks. They also sent them both live to their campuses in El Paso, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Brownsville, and perhaps 1-2 others. I think that this was my last time in Houston for some time. It was a make-up for a talk I was supposed to do back in September just after Hurricane Ike. I have also been there in October and December. When I was there in December, they had snow. Weird weather in Houston this year.
I could see almost all of Houston from my hotel room at the Hilton near Rice University. Like in Phoenix and the UAE, it was wonderful weather to run in. And Rice is a lovely campus.
I just missed this sunset in Houston. Stupid me for checking my email.
Once I was done with picture taking of Houston, it was time to speak and earn my keep. You can see the video monitor above my head signaling that there were remote campuses also watching. Ok, the pressure was on to perform. Smile!
Former master's student in IST, Rachel Barrera, now a doc student at the University of Texas in Austin, came to my talk on Wednesday. She drove 3+ hours each way through snarling traffic to be there.
Always important to raffle off some R2D2 books at the end of my talks; may the force be with whoever wins to figure out how the hec to use the ideas in them.
A few top banana help too.
There were a few people from the UT School of Public Health who now think the world is actually open.
Youmei Liu and Brian Plankis who stopped by from the University of Houston after my second talk also think the world is open.
Ok, talks were done and I get a 3 break from speaking. Finally! Body very tired. On my way out of town, I stopped by the University of Houston to see some friends. What a great day to stroll through campus.
Hard to believe that back in December (2 months earlier), it was snowing here and I have pics of that as well.
I also had a late breakfast at the University of Houston Hilton since airport food is no good (especially the terminal I typically fly out of there). That meal was delicious! So many berries!
Time to go. There is a bus there I could take. No wait, get a taxi! Ok. I had a cool taxi cab driver who discussed politics, culture, geography, etc. with me for the next 30-40 minutes. Great way to end my travel. I should have taken his picture! Smile. I thought about it. He fought in the Vietnam War (2-3 tours of duty).
Recap and What is Next: Well that makes 20 talks in 23 days. Too much, too much, too much!!! I do not recommend it. Ok, next week is the eLearning Guild 2009 Conference in Orlando and then Las Vegas the week after that. I must see the Beatles Love performance with my son, Alex, and his friends, at the Mirage once again (I have listened to the CD 200 times since I saw it in 2 times in November during eLearn). More travel! Oh well. 2 trips to California (northern and southern) in April (including AERA in San Diego) and then Korea for the Korean Society of Educational Technology Conference in May and Hawaii for Ed Media in June. As I said, too much, too much, too much!
There are many more pics. I have a file of pics from the UAE and Saudi. If you want to see more, just send me an email.
Dubai and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE): On January 25, I went to the United Arab Emirates including Dubai and Abu Dhabi. I gave talks at Dubai Men's College and visited Abu Dhabi Men's College that week. These are both part of the Higher Colleges of Technology in the UAE (see Wikipedia for more). I also saw the Burge Dubai (the world's tallest building) and the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi. I forget how many billion they spent on this place but it is definitely a cool place! My friend, Paul Mace from Abu Dhabi Men's College seems to know everyone in this hotel. They are all recorded in his Blackberry. Here is a pic or 2 from it.
Just driving up to the Emirates Palace Hotel is an exillerating experience.
Camera looking up in the middle of the Emirates Palace Hotel. What a cool shot that was. Thanks to Paul Mace for suggesting that!
How would you like to hold a conference event here? What a place that is! And sometimes Paul, in fact, does run events there.
Future expansion plans in Abu Dhabi are pretty amazing too!
This is just the entryway into Abu Dhabi Men's College (ADMC). Wow! What a place.
A view of the Abu Dhabi Men's College campus.
And they bring in very famous people all the time. Here is a picture of soccer great, Pele, who recently visited. I remember doing a paper on him in ninth grade oh so long ago! He was my idol at the time even though we never played soccer in the USA then. If the Higher Colleges of Technology have a conference, they will undoubtedly bring in some famous people and very cool laser light show and perhaps some camel rides.
ADMC is technology rich. Paul Mace demos a few new devices to me for language instruction.
The director of ADMC show me his mobile device. They are moving in a mobile diretion there.
They are creating a new podcasting studio. Again, they are highly planful about technology use in education.
Like I said, lots of technology there.
Paul Mace knows the world is open:
I saw many friends in the UAE including Mark Curcher in Dubai and Bob Craig and Paul Mace in Abu Dhabi. Mark showed me around Dubai so that was fabulous. He works at Dubai Men's College which is about the host the Education Without Borders Conference in early April. I presented at that conference six years ago.
The road and buildings across from Dubai Men's College.
The entryway at Dubai Men's College. The Higher Colleges of Technology (HCT) people sure have supported this place. it is really nice!
Here is a picture we took outside of his college entrance.
I gave 2 talks at his place--one on blended learning and one on my upcoming World is Open book.
A review of my talks was posted to a few news releases under the title, "Learning at Dubai Men's College."
It was also posted at AME Info (Middle East Business Resource).
When in Dubai, I also saw Dr. Robin Mason from the Open University, Dr. Robert Wisher from the Advanced Distributed Learning Lab within the Department of Defense (DOD), Elliott Masie from the Masie Center, Professor Carmel McNaught from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Badrul Khan from Granato Group at an e-learning conference in Dubai outside the sailboat hotel. I used to report to Bob when I was a senior research fellow with the Army Research Institute and then later at the DOD. It was some event!
Here is a pic of Bob, Mark, and I during the conference:
Here is the sailboat hotel at dusk:
Bob Wisher realizes that the world is open now:
View from hotel window in Dubai. Seemed to be a lot of haze and smog in the morning (perhaps just sand in the air from all the construction).
The Burge Dubai (the world's tallest building) stands impressively in front of me as most of the cranes in Duabi have come to a halt.
Building after building in Dubai.
Mass transit is being added. But so many cranes (many of which stand idle right now in this economic crisis).
After a couple of days in Dubai, it was on to Abu Dhabi. I have done that trip a few times before back in 2003 and 2004. It was hard to believe that it had been 4-5 years since I had been there.
Need to see a mosque? No Problem. Plenty of those on the road to Abu Dhabi from Dubai, such as this one.
My wonderful friend, Bob Craig, drove like 8-10 hours from Oman with his new wife, Alexandra, to meet me in Abu Dhabi. You can see the skyline of Abu Dhabi faintly behind them in the distance in the pic below.
You might see it better here:
Bob has met me in many places over the past 7 years including Auckland, New Zealand, Dubai, Abu Dhabi,and London.
Of course, if you are in the Middle East for a couple of weeks you are bound to run into a camel or two...like this one eating my hair:
My friend, Vance Stevens (from the Petroleum Institute and Webheads), and his wife, Bobbi, joined us on my last night in the UAE at an outside pub connected to the Hilton. I stayed with Vance one night during this trip.
Here is a pic I took with Bob Craig before I left Abu Dhabi for Saudi Arabia.
The UAE is an interesting place. But the cranes have stopped. It is sad. The economic crisis seems to have hit them hard. People are leaving their cars at the airport and going home.
Abha, Saudi Arabia: On January 30th, I flew to Abha, Saudi Arabia to speak at King Khalid University (KKU). I gave 11 talks there in 5 days. I stayed in a hotel room there for 6 days and got out two times. Once I got out to speak at their new "temporary campus" and once I got out to meditate on top of a nearby mountain called "green mountain."
Entering my hotel in Abha. It is an incredible feeling; especially after flying in all night from Dubai after stopping in Riyadh. Nice to have a place to put my bags.
A view from the restaurant in my hotel in Abha. What a site to see at each meal!
More views from hotel restaurant.
Views from my elevator.
A view from my room.
The houses off in the distance. Cool views in Abha! Colorful houses--the mayor of the city encouraged a colorful community. Thus, it is different from other parts of Saudi Arabia.
The pictures below are just of the temporary campus for KKU. The temporary campus is amazing and they are just moving into it now. They are building a brand new campus to be done in a few years, which, from the drawings I have seen, is spectacular! Billions spent on it I think. Wikipedia can tell you more about KKU.
On the way home, they did take me to Pizza Hut for dinner (not my selection but ok). Smile. I also got to watch the second half of the Super Bowl using free Internet TV (connected online to some station from Canada). This was my third trip to Saudi Arabia. Abha is a resort town in the southwest corner in the mountains. There are even pine trees there (see pic below).
During the week, I gave 11 talks at KKU. My first one was on how the world was becoming open for learning. By the 11th talk, I had a few people believing me. Perhaps some will be interested in my "The World is Open" book.
This instructor came to all my 11 talks at KKU. Apparently, he had a high tolerance for pain.
Even the camera man for this one week event at KKU found the world was getting more open.
And so was the e-learning program manager who had just arrived from Jordan.
This English teacher from Yemen came to all my talks as well. His name is Aziz. Aziz is great!!! We are still corresponding.
These instructors came to most or all of my 11 talks. What makes it even more amazing is that these were mostly 4 hour talks and it was finals week. Yes, 4 hour talks. Typically from 8 am to noon and then from 4 to 8 pm. The Abha Palace Hotel had great views. It also had a great restaurant where I ate breakfast, lunch, and dinner each day. It was about all I saw since I presented in the hotel as well.
At the end of my 11th talk, no one wanted to say goodbye. These people are so much fun! Many instructors at KKU are from India, Yemen, Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, and other nearby countries.
I could not say goodbye without KKU people reminding me that the world is truly open for learning now!
KKU is a wonderful place. This is Dr. Abdullah Alwalidi who got his Ph.D. at Kansas State University. He brought me to KKU. He is transforming teaching and learning at KKU with many ambitious plans and goals. Unfortunately, my week was up and it was time to say goodbye.
Stopping in two countries in one trip is hard and even more difficult with customs and such. I would not recommend one do it too often. Carrying luggage and keeping track of my schedule is always difficult. It becomes a tad more so when flying a long way by yourself. But that is often the life of TravelinEdMan. A few years ago, I was giving more than 100 talks a year. It seems I am on pace for that again this year though I do not think I will make it. We will see.
Phoenix and Glendale, Arizona: I got home on February 6th and then flew to Phoenix to speak at Thunderbird School of Global Management on February 11th. I saw my good friend from Arizona State University, Dr. Jim Middleton, when I was there. ASU is putting all faculty on 10 day furloughs and administrators on 12 days ones. Amazing. Jim helped me with my dissertation a long time ago. It was his birthday when I saw him. Jim was just happy to be alive after being hit by a car while crossing the streets of Tempe a couple of years earlier. The story of his survival (flying 20-30 feet) with blood gushing all around him was enough to tell me that my travel schedule is pretty easy and I should have no complaints. And the weather in Phoenix was grand for running.
It was Jim's birthday. So glad to be there for it.
Jim is not sure if the world is open as ASU is facing significant budget cuts.
It took me all day but I think I convinced him:
The Thunderbird people seem perched in an interesting spot--they specialize in training for global managers and leaders and are exploring innovative global ways for doing so (i.e., teaching on the Web). Their MBA is ranked #1 in many quarters and they have excellent instructors and program developers. Of course, the cost is not cheap as I think their online MBA is only second in price to Duke. Thunderbird also has a partnership with the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University; actually with our Kelley Direct (KD) program. They have many other partnerships (e.g., with those in Asia and South America) and are seeking more.
Houston, Texas: I came back from Phoenix on February 13th and then a few days later flew to Houston to speak to the University of Texas School of Public Health. I was in Houston February 17th to the 20th. Many great meals were eaten there. I have been to Houston 6 times since November 2006. I got the Houston Museum of Modern Art for one of my final meals. The medical complex in Houston is immense as is the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. People from the UT School of Public Health, School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, School of Nursing, and healthcare informatics people came to both talks. They also sent them both live to their campuses in El Paso, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, Brownsville, and perhaps 1-2 others. I think that this was my last time in Houston for some time. It was a make-up for a talk I was supposed to do back in September just after Hurricane Ike. I have also been there in October and December. When I was there in December, they had snow. Weird weather in Houston this year.
I could see almost all of Houston from my hotel room at the Hilton near Rice University. Like in Phoenix and the UAE, it was wonderful weather to run in. And Rice is a lovely campus.
I just missed this sunset in Houston. Stupid me for checking my email.
Once I was done with picture taking of Houston, it was time to speak and earn my keep. You can see the video monitor above my head signaling that there were remote campuses also watching. Ok, the pressure was on to perform. Smile!
Former master's student in IST, Rachel Barrera, now a doc student at the University of Texas in Austin, came to my talk on Wednesday. She drove 3+ hours each way through snarling traffic to be there.
Always important to raffle off some R2D2 books at the end of my talks; may the force be with whoever wins to figure out how the hec to use the ideas in them.
A few top banana help too.
There were a few people from the UT School of Public Health who now think the world is actually open.
Youmei Liu and Brian Plankis who stopped by from the University of Houston after my second talk also think the world is open.
Ok, talks were done and I get a 3 break from speaking. Finally! Body very tired. On my way out of town, I stopped by the University of Houston to see some friends. What a great day to stroll through campus.
Hard to believe that back in December (2 months earlier), it was snowing here and I have pics of that as well.
I also had a late breakfast at the University of Houston Hilton since airport food is no good (especially the terminal I typically fly out of there). That meal was delicious! So many berries!
Time to go. There is a bus there I could take. No wait, get a taxi! Ok. I had a cool taxi cab driver who discussed politics, culture, geography, etc. with me for the next 30-40 minutes. Great way to end my travel. I should have taken his picture! Smile. I thought about it. He fought in the Vietnam War (2-3 tours of duty).
Recap and What is Next: Well that makes 20 talks in 23 days. Too much, too much, too much!!! I do not recommend it. Ok, next week is the eLearning Guild 2009 Conference in Orlando and then Las Vegas the week after that. I must see the Beatles Love performance with my son, Alex, and his friends, at the Mirage once again (I have listened to the CD 200 times since I saw it in 2 times in November during eLearn). More travel! Oh well. 2 trips to California (northern and southern) in April (including AERA in San Diego) and then Korea for the Korean Society of Educational Technology Conference in May and Hawaii for Ed Media in June. As I said, too much, too much, too much!
There are many more pics. I have a file of pics from the UAE and Saudi. If you want to see more, just send me an email.
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