My talk at the CDE 2009 Conference

The theme of the conference was ‘Research in Distance Education: from present findings to future agendas’. I thought it would be a good idea to talk about the implications of the integration of social media and mobile technologies for distance learning in the near-future. I framed our recent CoMo project as an exemplar of this trend. One of the key point I made was that much of the potential of social media for learning is context specific. The feedback suggested that this raises particular challenges (in particular resourcing) for the distance learning community in the design of their courses.