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The Research Continues: Welcome George Siemens from eLearnspace

Alright, for those who don't know, Elliott Masie was kind enough to allow me to extend this research project, under the Masie Center banner (and wearing my Boise State student hat - Go Broncs!) for another year. During this next phase I will add a growing lit review to the pile and will of course continue to conduct interviews. *I do need to apologize to those attempting to grab the RSS here - evidently there was some small flaw in the move from Moveable Type to Typepad that added an unreadable character to the mix which I am now deleting by hand. Your patience is appreciated.

George Siemens, is an instructor at Red River College in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, and publisher, editor, chief writer, CEO, etc., of the wonderful and informative (really is one of those emails I look for) eLearnspace.org. He has evidently slipped up somehow and agreed to do an interview here and for that I am deeply grateful. As always, your comments during this interview are welcome and encouraged but George and I reserve the right to address them as they fit the flow of the interview.

All that being said, what really kicked off this interview was a question that popped into my head recently. One of my favorite historians is Robert Darnton. Now, in one of my favorite books by Darnton, The Great Cat Massacre, he makes the point that...

Welcome to Sam Adkins

Next up in the interview que is Mr. Sam Adkins. Thanks a bunch Sam.

For those of you who don't know him, Sam has spent almost 20 years in the training industry. The last company he worked for was a small U.S. Northwest company known as Microsoft. While at Microsoft, Sam, in his role as Group Learning Program Manager, helped create the online learning university known as the Microsoft Online Institute or MOLI.

SAMADICO, Sam's own product research company was started in 2000 and Sam's work there on issues such as Workflow-based eLearning, has helped solidify his place as one of the leading e-learning researchers in the field today.

We are lucky and happy to have Sam here with us...and now on with the interview!

Welcome to Murry Christensen

I think that everyone should applaud Murry here who is stepping up not only as our first interviewee but who has also agreed to conduct that interview "live" on the blog.

This will be the initial post for the interview and the it will continue through the use of the "comments" feature. Everyone will be able to post comments but just know that Murry and I are free to ignore those comments until we finish our 'interview' at which point - we'll tax Murry giving nature ever harder and see how many questions he is willing to answer!

All that being said, let's lay some groundwork. Could you please state your name, job title and company for the record sir?