If you work with distance learning or mobile learning, whether in K-12 or higher education, then I highly encourage you to consider submitting a proposal to the Midsouth Distance Learning Conference.  Last year, a group of us from the University of Memphis attended the Arkansas Distance Learning Association conference.  We found it a really useful conference for networking, sharing, and [...]

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In the last couple of days, I’ve been moved by some thoughts about how teachers deal with tragedy from their students, such as when a child dies or is diagnosed with cancer.  Yesterday at the Cure4Kids Global Summit, I listened to Dr. Ruth Rechis, Director of Evaluation & Research at the Lance Armstrong Foundation (Livestrong), describe her research on the [...]

Over the next few days, I will be attending the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital‘s Cure4Kids Global Summit.  (That’s a mouthful!)  A description from the website says: The aim of this three-day conference is to improve health and science education in classrooms and communities around the world. It will bring together leading educators, innovators, and pioneers in a multidisciplinary forum [...]

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Next week, we have the awesome opportunity to “sit at the feet of the master.” On June 8th at 12:00 pm CDT, Professor Elizabeth Boling from Indiana University will be offering a free webinar on “What is Design?”.  Professor Boling is certainly one of my mentors, and she is especially focused in design. I continue to learn so much from [...]

Last week at the Professors of Instructional Design & Technology (PIDT) meeting in Virginia, one of the sessions turned toward a conversation that was very similar to one I had at the American Educational Research Association last year in 2010. These are folks and their blogs who speak about instructional design regularly as community support and/or practitioners. So, I thought [...]

CourseSmart this past spring released their mobile eTextbook readers. I have been using my textbooks for my graduate courses on my iPad through CourseSmart. (The texts I’ve adopted automatically appeared in my bookshelf.) Just a few days ago in my email, CourseSmart informed me that they have added offline reading and annotations for their etextbooks.  Funnily, I hadn’t noticed that [...]

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