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The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On An MS-Word version of this essay is available at http://www.downes.ca/files/future2008.doc In the summer of 1998, over two frantic weeks in July, I wrote an essay titled The Future of Online Learning. (Downes, 1998) At the time, I was working as a distance education and new media design specialist at Assiniboine Community College, and I wrote the essay to defend the work I was doing at the time. "We want a plan," said my managers, and so I outlined the future as I thought it would - and should - unfold.

During the summer of 2008 I began work on my thesis. At this time, the working title was, "How are educators using the 'social web' to enhance teaching and learning, and their own professional development?" I started to develop a three-year, longitudinal study, entitled edonis (educators online impact study); setting out to have 100 participants by time of commencement at the start of November. The research would consist primarily of: fortnightly emailed questions; monthly online surveys via Survey Monkey; quarterly invited response to some stimulus; yearly extended discussion (online or face-to-face); and a face-to-face or online recorded interview.

Details of David's edonis methodology and EdD writings blog I have started a blog at http://edonisproject.blogspot.com. I will be posting weekly, extended writings relating to the edonis methodology, and essays on Education and Public Policy, Perspectives on Professional Practice, and Qualitative Analysis. Recent posts are edonis project - introduction I & II.

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This site provides an overview of the DIAL-e framework developed by Kevin Burden and Simon Atkinson. It includes a great introductory video on the project. "The framework was developed as part of a UK project, sponsored through the Joint Information Services Committee (JISC), to encourage academics and other educators to adopt digital artefacts (in this case video) as part of their teaching, learning and research strategies. Simon and Kevin have three papers about this at the Ascilite conference. I really like this framework and think it has great potential. I think it is a good example of a 'design schema' i.e. a framework to enable teachers and designers to think differently about learning and teaching.

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