On integrity of the individual
“When I was born, humanity was 95 per cent illiterate. Since I’ve been born, the population has doubled and that total population is now 65 per cent literate. That’s a gain of 130-fold of the literacy. When humanity is primarily illiterate, it needs leaders to understand and get the information and deal with it. When we are at the point where the majority of humans them-selves are literate, able to get the information, we’re in an entirely new relationship to Universe. We are at the point where the integrity of the individual counts and not what the political leadership or the religious leadership says to do.”
R. Buckminster Fuller, Excerpt from an interview on February 26, 1983
ED-MEDiA 2012 – June 26-29, 2012 – Denver, Colorado, USA
The EdMedia World Conference on Educational Media and Technology is an international conference, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE).
This annual conference serves as a multi-disciplinary forum for the discussion and exchange of information on the research, development, and applications on all topics related to multimedia, hypermedia and telecommunications/distance education.
The submission deadline for this first call is: December 12, 2011. If you cannot meet that deadline… don’t despair. Usually, Ed-Media also issues a second call.
Paper submitted for special issue
Last week I co-authored a paper with Terje Väljataga for the special issue call of Educational Action Research on “Narrative Inquiry and Action Research”. I have never submitted anything to this journal. Let’s see what their reviewers have to say…
Paper accepted for ECER 2012
I almost forgot… our paper “Personal Learning Contracts for modeling one’s personal learning environment” had been accepted for the European Conference on Educational Research (ECER) 2012 in Berlin. Not sure if I will make it personally. Terje, however, has already made her travel arrangements.
ECER 2012 will take place from September 13 to 16 at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Going Global 2012 conference – March 13-15, 2012 – London, UK
The conference will provide a platform to network with global and national policy makers; as well as individuals working and/or interested in international education, including Vice-Chancellors, international directors and officers, academics, researchers, consultants, media, private agents and government agencies.
The programme is currently under development. If you are interested in taking part please see our call for proposals or our promotional opportunities.
The programme will include a series of plenary and parallel sessions, workshops, poster presentations, networking events and an accompanying exhibition…
Deadline for submitting proposals: September 16, 2011
On the advancement of theory
“Funeral by funeral, theory advances”
Paul A. Samuelson
On efficiency
“Every good cause is worth some inefficiency”
Paul A. Samuelson
On distance
“Distance does not guarantee objectivitiy; it merely guarantees distance”
Michael Q. Patton (2002) in Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods
On complex problems
“Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers”
Henry Louis Mencken
