Open education. Associate Faculty, Royal Roads University. Former Twitter user. Find me on Mastodon - @irwindev@scholar.social
Joined March 2010
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2 Mar 2023
An amazing story, one that @TRUOpenLearning @thompsonriversu deserve to be proud of. #openlearning #openeducation #highered
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24 Dec 2022
This, circulating on That Site That Shall Not Be Named. My top read for 2022, for multiple reasons.
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6 Dec 2022
Today we gather in vigil for the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, marking the anniversary of the murder of 14 young women at Polytechnique Montréal: fal.cn/3udgt
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3 Dec 2022
Heartening news out of Germany. Proctorio has lost a major client. @TU_Muenchen (whose logo used to be on Proctorio's website) announces that "the exam option "proctoring with Proctorio" is no longer available". They guarantee a face-to-face alternative. prolehre.tum.de/en/prolehre/…
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18 Nov 2022
I encourage folks here to pop over to the Fediverse. To do that you can joinmastodon.org
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15 Nov 2022
This needs to go into the next edition of Metaphors @mweller
14 Nov 2022
In Finland, all new PhD holders are given a traditional PhD Sword & Top Hat during a Conferment Ceremony. The sword & hat symbolise the freedom of research and the fight for what is good, right and true.
9 Nov 2022
Great update and thanks for the notice about SFU!
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31 Oct 2022
We have a Special Spooky Roundup headed your way! 👻 Check out what we've been up to this month: roundup.reclaimhosting.com/a…
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28 Oct 2022
Wow!
26 Oct 2022
The perfect way to wrap-up our Data Smart Schools project! It was wonderful to discuss the datafication of schools and schooling today with @Neil_Selwyn @lucipangrazio @lyndsayg @juliane_jarke @irzakhar. Live illustrations of the discussions by @JennyLeonardArt! Thank you all!
24 Oct 2022
As a customer I didn't expect @musiciansfriend to be such a spammy company but the promo emails keep flooding in, even after multiple unsubscribes. Disappointing.
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20 Oct 2022
Good to see a deep dive into multiple possible meanings of and problems with learner “engagement”
20 Oct 2022
Next in my series of posts on #OnlineEngagement in the #HE literature: chaos, controversy and critique: artofelearning.org/2022/10/2… #i_he2022 #OpenThesis #OpenDissertation @GOGN_OER
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17 Oct 2022
In case there's any doubt that Halloween is a monster sugar marketing machine...
ALT Pallets of boxes of halloween candy stacked in a supermarket aisle
17 Oct 2022
Hard to put into words how good this is.
17 Oct 2022
Across Latin America, a generation of young sound artists and producers are unsettling Eurocentric assumptions about the boundaries of ambient music
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6 Oct 2022
“The Alberta Government appears to be following Vladimir Putin’s strategy in Ukraine: escalate and appropriate.”
6 Oct 2022
Alberta govt. fires Athabasca University Board members over dispute re. locating staff in the town. For my comments see: tonybates.ca/2022/10/06/the-… Only in Alberta!
6 Oct 2022
Nice flip: “The failure [during the pandemic] was in the robustness of face to face education, and yet that is the model that must be adhered to in the view of many.”
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As I start the Professional Program in Open Education at @KwantlenU, I thought I would bring this old blog back to life and share what I am working on. #OER #openeducation eltreflections.com/2022/10/0…
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