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urn:uuid:2f56f49c-cf69-453b-8fb9-b3bd35759bae 03 15 9781805110972 00 EB E101 10 01 01 Research, Writing, and Creative Process in Open and Distance Education Tales from the Field 1 B01 Dianne Conrad <p>Dianne Conrad has spent her post-secondary career firstly in adult education, specializing in prior learning assessment; and after that, in online, open and distance education, with an emphasis on learning, community, and assessment. Since retirement from Athabasca University, she has published five books (including this one) on several topics dear to her heart: online assessment, open learning, online doctoral potential, and seniors’ learning in today’s digital age. She has taught all manner and levels of distance education courses, published many journal articles, and served as co-editor of the International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning (IRRODL). She hopes to keep going.</p> 01 eng 00 237 03 10 EDU037000 23 Education 12 GPS 23 Open and Distance Education 04 PN146 23 Academic writing 10 EDU029100 12 JN 23 Academic publishing 10 EDU041000 12 JNF 23 Covid-19 12 JNQ 23 educational emergency 12 JNK 01 06 03 00 <p>This collection of reflective essays is a treasure trove of advice, reflection and hard-won experience from experts in the field of open and distance education. Each chapter offers tried-and-tested advice for nascent academic writers, delivered with personal, rich, and wonderful stories of the authors’ careers, their process, their research and their writing, and the struggles and triumphs they have encountered in the course of their careers.</p><p>The contributors explore the philosophies that guide their work, the conflicts and barriers they have overcome and the mentors and opportunities that sustain and stimulate them, always focused on making their experiences relevant and useful for scholars who are in the early stages of their writing lives. These rich and informative essays will appeal to anyone who wants to learn more about the crafts of research and writing, and the unseen struggles involved in publishing and “being heard.”</p> 04 00 Acknowledgement Contributing Authors Foreword: The Way of Academic Writing 1. Introduction and Welcome 2. The Way of Academic Writing: Reflections of a Traveller 3. On Being Written 4. What Lies Beneath 5. Reminiscences and Reflections: No Regrets 6. Intrinsic Motivation, Agency, and Self-Efficacy: Journeying From “Quasi-University” Student to Steward of the ODE Community 7. 1001 Nights of Research: The Good, Bad, and the Ugly Magic Carpet Ride 8. Creative Academic Writing and Anatomy of a Scholarly Paper 9. Writing and Making the World 10. A Collaborative Approach to Research and Writing 11. Serendipity: Becoming a Specialist in Online Learning 12. Writing in the Margins: Maintaining a Scholarly Voice as an Executive 13. Indigenous, Settler, Diasporic, and Post-colonial: The Identities Woven Through our Academic Writing 14. Born Curious and in Trouble: Making Sense of Writing 15. A Few Words in Conclusion Index Open Book Publishers 01 Open Book Publishers 04 01 20230818 02 WORLD 06 15 9781805110941 06 15 9781805110958 06 15 9781805110965 06 15 9781805111009 06 15 9781805110996 06 15 9781805110972 WORLD 09 Open Book Publishers 20 02 5.99 GBP WORLD