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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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Organizational Learning Challenges via Dilbert

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For those of us in the area of organizational learning, does this seem familiar?

Steve Jobs, 1955-2011

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May Steve Jobs RIP.

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 [...]

Montreal, Canada Visit (2011)

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I visited Montreal for the first time two weeks ago, while on my way to the British Education Research Association Conference. I stayed with my friends Robin and Edward, and had two beautiful days of weather with which to explore Old Montreal and St. Joseph’s Oratory (among other sites).

While I uploaded the pictures of [...]

The Travel Bag Winner? Red Oxx!

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and the winner is . . . Red Oxx!

Last month I posted about how I was trying to find the perfect travel bag for carry-on (nothing with wheels as they just add weight, you lose 1/3 of the space for the wheels and handle, and it will not fit in European [...]

New Avatar for 2011 (finally)

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Better late than never, but I just changed my avatar for my online presence.

I seem to do this about every second year, so decided to use one of the pictures from my recent trip to the UK (for study at Lancaster University) and Ireland (for holiday). As I was selecting pictures, I realized the [...]

Einstein on West 4th

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I saw this image of Einstein on West 4th Street in Manhattan NYC yesterday. Not sure if he were supposed to be where I saw him, but his message is certainly a happy one. Yet again, he has a lot to teach us.

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England and Scotland Pictures

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I have finally uploaded all my photos from my trip to England (where I took a lovely walking tour of Manchester and went to class for a week with my colleagues in Lancaster) and Scotland (where I stayed in Edinburgh, and drove to Loch Ness, the Isle of Skye, and finally into Glasgow).

Labyrinth in Lower Manhattan

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I went for a bike ride this morning, and found myself at the labyrinth in Battery Park in Lower Manhattan. Deciding to walk it, I thought about the birds chirping over head, and the trees looking down from above, all while thinking that the labyrinth is like a metaphor for life itself – – the [...]

The Mourners at the Met

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I needed to take a break from my paper (with its final version due this Monday), so I decided to visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, my favorite museum that happens to be right here in New York.

What a surprise when I stumbled across one of the best (small) exhibits I have ever encountered, [...]