Only the Open University of India is larger. I had a great time there. degrees, respectively, when I was there.īefore the pictures from the BNU campus, I should mention my talk at the Open University of China (OUC), which is the second largest university in the world with more than 3.5 million students. And my old friend Dongping Zheng from the University of Hawaii was there. My next student, Meina Zhu, was also in attendance as were two visiting scholars, Wenjing Hu and Xinyi (Cindy) Shen, who received their master's and Ph.D. Minjing Duan was at my talks and took me to dinner with her family. They include Jingjing Zhang (an old friend since her graduate school time at Oxford), Meifeng Liu (a visiting scholar at IU back in 2000), Qing Chen (who translated my Adding Some TEC-VARIETY book to Chinese), Li Chen (who arranged for the translation and seems in charge of many things at BNU), Xiuli (Lily) Zhuang (who worked on an international wikibook project with me long ago), Shengquan Yu (who participated in an event with me in Las Vegas back in 2008), and many more. Hard to briefly mention all my friends there at BNU. And I had the most excellent time in Beijing with my friends as Beijing Normal University (BNU). Here are a few pictures from that lunch session.Ĭity #8: Beijing, China. What fun! The AECT conference (or summer research symposium) started the next day at East China Normal University (ECNU).īefore the AECT summer research conference at ECNU, I went over the Manchester Business School Office in Shanghai and gave a talk on my new book on MOOCs and Open Education Around the World on Monday July16th. My wonderful friend, Nigel Banister, Chief Global Officer at Man Business U, put me in touch with the Regional Director in Shanghai, Sherry Fu. Sherry and I were hoping for a book launching but the book did not get published until a few days later. David, Vanessa, Ke, and I did a preconference workshop on Tueday June 15th at Shanghai International Studies U (SISU). Let's just say that I saw many colleagues (e.g., David Wiley who has a chapter in my new book on MOOCs and Open Education Around the world Ke Zhang who co-wrote the Empowering Online Learning/R2D2 book with me) and former students (e.g., Jingli Cheng from the U of Hong Kong, Vanessa Dennen from Florida State University, Xiaojing Kou from IU, etc.). He also took me to Kennedytown where we had a refreshing drink.Ĭity #5: Shanghai, China. He introduced me to his family as well as Nancy Law from the University of Hong Kong. The first person other than Jingli that I ran into was Gerald Knezek from the University of North Texas. Jingli Cheng from the University of Hong Kong, took good care of me the first week or so of the trip (and on into Week 2 in Shanghai). And then I had to clear customs a third time a few hours later in Hong Kong. Customs in Shanghai was a tad bit much for me since I had to clear customs in China and walk to the other terminal and clear customs again to get on the plane to Hong Kong. I left on June 2nd and arrived on the 3rd by going through Detroit and Shanghai. Feel free to download them ( 18 China talks).Ĭity #1: HONG Kong. My talks are all posted to archived talks in. You can use anything you like from my talks (if you cite me, of course). Yes.I was tired but the entire trip went very well. And I hope you agree after reading the stories below and browsing the pictures. That was one of the hardest preparations in my life and I had a book with Routledge and special journal issue of the International Journal on E-learning about to come out on MOOCs and Open Education that needed proofing (see my homepage for links to both). I was pretty tired when I got on the plane heading for China. I was also on several panels and research presentations. Too much fun?Īs you will read below, I visited eight cities and gave 18 talks at 12 universities. Traffic.sure there were a few days with many of the road and also the rainy season started during my second or third week there. I can even spell each city without looking it up now. It was great to see so many old friends and meet many new friends in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Beijing. Well, I got back from China a little over a week ago. HarperCollins.Ĭhina South to North: Some Cool Looks, a Few Books, and a Building Named MOOCs The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots. How a group of hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution. Video Primers in an Online Repository for e-Teaching and Learning (V-PORTAL)Ĭlick here for information about my recent book, MOOCs and Open Education Around the World. Bonk's Emerging Learning Technologies course
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