David Murphy's Occasional Blog

If you haven’t yet taken a look at the (relatively) new Commonwealth of Learning (CoL) blog, then now do so, especially if you’re interested in federalism as it relates to education. It’s not an issue that receives much attention, but it should do, as it profoundly influences the effectiveness of educational systems.

A couple of posts ago, when rabbiting on about Wikis, I mentioned WikiEducator, which has rapidly grown to become a leader among Wikis with an educational focus. In particular, its strong refrain is a call to arms to support the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. Continuing on this theme, and if you’d like to know [...]

Since my last post on contributing to Wikipedia (and I worry that no-one has yet had a go at fixing ‘Open Learning‘), matters Wiki have again crossed my path. In fact it’s hard to ignore the Wiki explosion, with Wikiquote (Who wrote “The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I’d written both of [...]

What does the world know about distance education? How do people learn about distance education? Well, the standard way of finding details of most topics seems to be Wikipedia, so I thought I’d take a look and see what it says.

In contemplating a title for a post about my trip to Papua New Guinea (PNG) to attend the PNG Association of Distance Education Conference, I recalled my surprise when first glimpsing the safety card on the flight from Brisbane to Port Moresby. The heading ’Öryggi um bord’ caught my attention,