Gulf of America on GoogleMaps… really??

"Towards reproducible systematic reviews in Open, Distance, and Digital Education—An umbrella mapping review" - just published. I would like to thank @berrinbc.bsky.social and John Y. Bai for the excellent collaboration on this article. It is available open access here: doi.org/10.1002/rev3...

Ja, es ist zum Kotzen.

"A record-breaking 10,000 scientific papers were retracted in 2023 because of scientific misconduct, and academic journals are overwhelmed by AI-generated images, data, and texts." Read more: www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/01/how-...

Today a x-mas gift from the Review of Education came. 🎄🎁 Our ODDE Umbrella Review co-authored by @berrinbc.bsky.social, John Bai and myself has been accepted for publication! It will be open access! You can check out the pre-print here: dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG....

This is a good analysis explaining why the scientic migration to bluesky worked when it failed to take hold with mastadon, threads, or linkedin. The key is network effects: Moving an entire community is hard and people are reluctant to leaveit www.science.org/content/arti...

Today I participated in a panel organized by the Global Smart Education Network at Beijing Normal University: What role smart education / AIEd can play to transform Open, Flexible, and Distance Learning? Over 1100 people attended... Here is my take on the topic: www.linkedin.com/posts/olaf-z...

The Journal of Open, Distance, and Digital Education (JODDE) welcomes the submission of systematic reviews (up to 12,000 words). To assess the quality of systematic review submissions, we apply the Quality of Evidence Synthesis Tool (QuEST) developed by Bond (2024). tinyurl.com/yc626eeu

I am delighted to be joining a panel on Dec 10 organised by the Global Smart Education Network at Beijing Normal University, moderated by Prof Asha Kanwar. What role can "smart education" (my quotation marks) play to transform open, flexible and distance learning?

After giving a longer break, I left Twitter/X and continue here now…

CfP: Einreichung zur AG Mediendidaktik (in der DGfE-Sektion Medienpädagogik) noch möglich bis 15.04.!

I maintain a curated list of (diamond) open access journals in Educational Technology. I showcase these journals and identify what makes them unique from the perspective of a potential author. Today, I updated the list with 2022's CiteScore. joshuaweidlich.wordpress.com/2019/06/05/o...

Happy new year to all... I am glad to announce that my interview with Otto Peters is now published in the American Journal of Distance Education (open access): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Ich freue mich sehr, dass unser Buch im Open Access dieses Jahr noch erschienen ist und wünsche allen eine inspirierende Lektüre. www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6... #datafizierung #bildung #schule #bluelz

Thanks to OTESSA (Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association) President Valerie Irvine for inviting me to co-chair the next OTESSA Conference 2024. The CfP is due on December 20. otessa.org/2024/

"10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2023": #edutopia www.edutopia.org/article/10-m...

Fully Funded Doctoral Researcher position (Ph.D. student) - Join me, join us! University of Technology Nuremberg 😀 ❗ 👇 👇 Are you passionate about --User Experience (#UX) --Learning Experience Design (#LXD) --Usability research? Details www.utn.de/en/career/op... #phdstudent #openposition

It was a pleasure delivering my keynote today on Open, Distance, and Digital Education - Mapping the Field towards a Research Agenda PH Zürich Research Symposium. Thanks for your warm welcome and hospitality @barbaragetto.bsky.social and Franziska Zellweger!

Thank you for having me at PHZH! Tmr I will make a call for more macro, and meso level research in Open, Distance, and Digital Education (ODDE).

Nun ist meine Kritik an den Zukunftskompetenzen endlich publiziert in der MedienPädagogik: doi.org/10.21240/mpa...

Rest in peace Jeroen (van Merriënboer) www.kirschnered.nl/2023/11/16/j... So sad!

In June I interviewed Otto Peters (97), the founding Rector of the FernUniversität in Hagen. He told the story of how and why he invented the term "distance education". Today the interview was accepted for publication in the American Journal of DE. Coming soon, open access...

Finally… :-)

So here is my first post, this seems to be a better place. On formerly Twitter I was recently flooded with useless information and I lost connection with my friends and wider network. I am recovering from my sickness, still regretting a lot I was not able to travel toICDE conference in Costa Rica.