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Olaf Zawacki-Richter
@zawacki-richter.bsky.social
Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Education and Social Sciences, COER, University of Oldenburg
Gulf of America on GoogleMaps… really??
February 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
"Towards reproducible systematic reviews in Open, Distance, and Digital Education—An umbrella mapping review" - just published. I would like to thank @berrinbc.bsky.social and John Y. Bai for the excellent collaboration on this article.
It is available open access here:
doi.org/10.1002/rev3...
Review of Education | BERA Educational Research Journal | Wiley Online Library
More and more systematic reviews (SRs) are being published in the educational sciences. This umbrella mapping review examines 576 SRs published between 2018 and 2022 in the field of open, distance, a...
doi.org
January 31, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Ja, es ist zum Kotzen.
January 30, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Reposted by Olaf Zawacki-Richter
"A record-breaking 10,000 scientific papers were retracted in 2023 because of scientific misconduct, and academic journals are overwhelmed by AI-generated images, data, and texts."

Read more: www.socialsciencespace.com/2025/01/how-...
January 13, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Today a x-mas gift from the Review of Education came. 🎄🎁
Our ODDE Umbrella Review co-authored by @berrinbc.bsky.social, John Bai and myself has been accepted for publication!
It will be open access! You can check out the pre-print here:
dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG....
(PDF) Towards reproducible systematic reviews in Open, Distance, and Digital Education (ODDE) -an umbrella mapping review
PDF | On Nov 10, 2024, Olaf Zawacki-Richter and others published Towards reproducible systematic reviews in Open, Distance, and Digital Education (ODDE) -an umbrella mapping review | Find, read and ci...
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December 22, 2024 at 4:11 PM
Reposted by Olaf Zawacki-Richter
This is a good analysis explaining why the scientic migration to bluesky worked when it failed to take hold with mastadon, threads, or linkedin.

The key is network effects: Moving an entire community is hard and people are reluctant to leaveit www.science.org/content/arti...
Like ‘old Twitter’: The scientific community finds a new home on Bluesky
After recent changes to Elon Musk’s X, a gradual migration turns into a stampede
www.science.org
December 12, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Today I participated in a panel organized by the Global Smart Education Network at Beijing Normal University: What role smart education / AIEd can play to transform Open, Flexible, and Distance Learning? Over 1100 people attended... Here is my take on the topic:

www.linkedin.com/posts/olaf-z...
Olaf Zawacki-Richter on LinkedIn: I would like to thank Professor Asha Kanwar and colleagues from the Global…
I would like to thank Professor Asha Kanwar and colleagues from the Global Smart Education Network for inviting me to a panel organized by Beijing Normal…
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December 10, 2024 at 5:58 PM
The Journal of Open, Distance, and Digital Education (JODDE) welcomes the submission of systematic reviews (up to 12,000 words). To assess the quality of systematic review submissions, we apply the Quality of Evidence Synthesis Tool (QuEST) developed by Bond (2024).

tinyurl.com/yc626eeu
December 6, 2024 at 10:17 AM
I am delighted to be joining a panel on Dec 10 organised by the Global Smart Education Network at Beijing Normal University, moderated by Prof Asha Kanwar. What role can "smart education" (my quotation marks) play to transform open, flexible and distance learning?
November 26, 2024 at 9:42 AM
After giving a longer break, I left Twitter/X and continue here now…
November 26, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Reposted by Olaf Zawacki-Richter
CfP: Einreichung zur AG Mediendidaktik (in der DGfE-Sektion Medienpädagogik) noch möglich bis 15.04.!
Das @learninglab-ude.bsky.social lädt ein:
Treffen der AG Mediendidaktik (in der DGfE-Sektion Medienpädagogik) mit EdTech Research Forum, 29./30. August 2024, U Duisburg-Essen,
Call for Paper:
www.medienpaed.net/call-for-pap...
und
digi-ebf.de/etrf2024
March 28, 2024 at 3:49 PM
Reposted by Olaf Zawacki-Richter
I maintain a curated list of (diamond) open access journals in Educational Technology. I showcase these journals and identify what makes them unique from the perspective of a potential author.

Today, I updated the list with 2022's CiteScore.

joshuaweidlich.wordpress.com/2019/06/05/o...
Open Access Journals in Educational Technology
If you are looking to make your research more accessible by publishing open access, there are plenty of options to choose from these days. I've compiled a list of open access journals in our field alo...
joshuaweidlich.wordpress.com
November 24, 2023 at 11:37 AM
Happy new year to all... I am glad to announce that my interview with Otto Peters is now published in the American Journal of Distance Education (open access):
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
January 7, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Reposted by Olaf Zawacki-Richter
Ich freue mich sehr, dass unser Buch im Open Access dieses Jahr noch erschienen ist und wünsche allen eine inspirierende Lektüre. www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6... #datafizierung #bildung #schule #bluelz
December 7, 2023 at 11:44 AM
Thanks to OTESSA (Open/Technology in Education, Society, and Scholarship Association) President Valerie Irvine for inviting me to co-chair the next OTESSA Conference 2024. The CfP is due on December 20.
otessa.org/2024/
December 14, 2023 at 1:42 PM
Reposted by Olaf Zawacki-Richter
Fully Funded Doctoral Researcher position (Ph.D. student) - Join me, join us! University of Technology Nuremberg 😀 ❗ 👇 👇

Are you passionate about

--User Experience (#UX)
--Learning Experience Design (#LXD)
--Usability research?

Details www.utn.de/en/career/op... #phdstudent #openposition
December 6, 2023 at 10:52 AM
It was a pleasure delivering my keynote today on Open, Distance, and Digital Education - Mapping the Field towards a Research Agenda PH Zürich Research Symposium. Thanks for your warm welcome and hospitality @barbaragetto.bsky.social and Franziska Zellweger!
November 21, 2023 at 2:34 PM
Thank you for having me at PHZH! Tmr I will make a call for more macro, and meso level research in Open, Distance, and Digital Education (ODDE).
November 20, 2023 at 3:51 PM
Reposted by Olaf Zawacki-Richter
Nun ist meine Kritik an den Zukunftskompetenzen endlich publiziert in der MedienPädagogik: doi.org/10.21240/mpa...
Zurück in die Zukunft? | MedienPädagogik: Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis der Medien...
MedienPädagogik ist ein Open-Access-Journal und richtet sich an Fachpersonen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis, die sich mit Fragen der Vermittlung zwischen Menschen und Medien in pädagogischen Kontexten ...
doi.org
November 19, 2023 at 10:25 AM
Reposted by Olaf Zawacki-Richter
Rest in peace Jeroen (van Merriënboer) www.kirschnered.nl/2023/11/16/j... So sad!
Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer - kirschner-ED
Today we - the educational research and the instructional design communities - lost a true giant, Jeroen van Merriënboer.
www.kirschnered.nl
November 16, 2023 at 8:52 PM
In June I interviewed Otto Peters (97), the founding Rector of the FernUniversität in Hagen. He told the story of how and why he invented the term "distance education". Today the interview was accepted for publication in the American Journal of DE. Coming soon, open access...
November 14, 2023 at 8:24 PM
So here is my first post, this seems to be a better place. On formerly Twitter I was recently flooded with useless information and I lost connection with my friends and wider network. I am recovering from my sickness, still regretting a lot I was not able to travel toICDE conference in Costa Rica.
November 8, 2023 at 12:36 PM