AnthonyFosterPhD

The National Council for Staff, Program and Organizational Development (NCSPOD) awarded the 2007 Institutional Merit Award to the SLCC Professional Development Council for their five certificate programs –Leadership/Management, Classified Development, Adjunct Faculty, Essential Technology Skills and Office Productivity. I was a lead designer for three of these programs. The fruit of my labor over the past couple of years (along with my very praiseworthy team) has been named a finalist in two categories of the Software & Information Industry Association's (SIIA) 23rd Annual Codie Awards competition- the awards honor outstanding achievement and vision in the software, digital content, and education technology industries. This is two years in a row it’s been nominated (sorry, no win last year)… Voting continues till April 25 and SIIA will announce the winners of the 2008 Codie Awards at a gala dinner in San Francisco on May 20, 2008.

Participation in an Online Learning Community - discusses the need for a pedagogical approach that relies heavily on social, collaborative and ethical aspects of learning as a starting point for the design of online learning communities. More research supports the idea that the successful traits of a distance learner are similar to the successful traits of an adult learner in traditional educational settings. Problem based Learning research . Athabasca University Elluminate seminars: Case study in Problem Based Learning . And Effective use of context in learning . Research on Fostering equitable University access . Applications to colleges are breaking records - The swelling population of 18-year-olds is not supposed to peak until 2009, when the largest group of high school seniors in the nation’s history, 3.2 million, are to graduate. A Taste of Web 2.0- article A good video on Web 2.0 differences from jutecht on YouTube- Piano Lessons online -This was curiously interesting to see ...