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Jeffrey Keefer

Educational Researcher / PhD Student (Lancaster University, UK) in E-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning / Adjunct Instructor (NYU & Pace U) / Project Manager (Clinical Education) in New York City.

Interests in educational research influenced by interdisciplinarity, focused on digital identity, doctorateness and the postgraduate experience, threshold concepts and transformative learning in higher education, Internet research, networked learning, technology enhanced learning, distance education, adult and organizational learning, narrative inquiry, and actor-network theory.

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Digital Scholarship and You (or me!) in #change11

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This week in the free online course #change MOOC, the focus was around Digital Scholarship. Based around the work of Martin Weller (who facilitated the session) and his book The Digital Scholar (which is currently available open-source on the publisher’s website), the focus was around some of the changes technology is bringing to higher education [...]

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2011-09-30

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Uploaded more pics from my trip to the UK; this time pics of Glastonbury http://t.co/tdGvwEoH with Stonehenge before http://t.co/S20aokR6 # Feel I am dragging today; I think I am getting sick. # @suifaijohnmak I will submit one (perhaps 2) papers for consideration. However, I can only attend #nlc2012 if one gets accepted. Costly. # [...]

Twitterburst

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Hey, Tweets can be a challenge to find later, so I want to archive (so to speak) my own little burst of creativity (or what passes for me as creativity)–Twitterburst.

#twitterburst, for those of you purists who must have the hash!

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A Visit to Glastonbury

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After visiting Stonehenge, we went on to visit Glastonbury, where we visited the Glastonbury Tor -

saw some sheep -

went to the spiritually-awakening Chalice Well -

saw the ruins of the ancient abbey -

and finally walked through the lovely, and pagan-inspired town -

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Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2011-09-29

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@Lemness @gawbul Interested as well #phdchat # @suifaijohnmak Are you considering submitting for #nlc2012 or perhaps attending it? # I really enjoyed the #change11 session today where @mweller spoke about digital scholarship; it gave me some insights into my own research. # @shahcenter How do you find #change11 so far? # @savasavasava Did you [...]

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2011-09-28

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Excellent production of Nabucco at the #MetOpera in #NYC # We are going to the #MetOpera tonight for our first opera of the season – Verdi's Nabucco #NYC # @christiepooh Yes, it is an excellent way to share. Chalk one up for #Mendeley # @rooksbay Thanks! I try to reply to all the @ [...]

Goals and Expectations (Finally!) for #change11

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OK, so here we are into Week 3 of the of the #Change11 MOOC, and I am finally ready to articulate my own personal goals and expectations for the course. Unlike most courses, there are no stated objectives or expectations for a MOOC. As I quoted from the MOOC Model document in my post Clarification [...]

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2011-09-27

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Off to see some colleagues for dinner. Goodness, a lot of Tweets await tonight! # What season are we now in? I am sweating outside walking home. So humid today in #NYC # @rooksbay Thanks for the reference. Is will look this up tomorrow. # @VGoodyear Sure, the more references that colleagues find useful, [...]

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2011-09-26

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Reading Vygotsky. Does anybody know any literature that relates Zone of Proximal Development to adult or higher education learning? #phdchat # Have had a relaxing afternoon, which means it is now time to focus on returning to #NYC and then begin my academic work again in earnest. #

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Stonehenge: A Visit Around the Circle

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Continuing on my way to London for BERA2011 after my visit to Montreal, I was finally able to make it to Stonehenge, one of the cultural and historical World Heritage sites I have been longing to visit for some time. The sheer size of these stones, their placement, and the questions about the builders and [...]