Norm Friesen (born March 21, 1966) is Professor in

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. Norm Friesen studied German Literature, Secondary Education, and Communication at the

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and

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(respectively). He has undertaken teaching and research at the

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, the

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and

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. He has led the CanCore

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initiative from 2003 to 2010, and is co-editor of the peer reviewed open content journal ''Phenomenology and Practice''. Friesen is also a member of the Canadian delegation to the

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subcommittee 36, for Learning, Education and Training. Friesen has been involved in Wikiversity research. Friesen's research interests include media theory, alternative pedagogies, technical e-learning standardization, phenomenology and ethnomethodology.

Works

*Friesen, N., Fisher, S., Roberts, A. (2004)
''CanCore Guidelines for the Implementation of Learning Object Metadata.''
Athabasca University. *Friesen, N. (2004)

In McGreal, R. (ed.) Online Education Using Learning Objects. London: Routledge. pp. 59–70. *Friesen, N. & Hopkins J., (2008) ' Wikiversity; or education meets the free culture movement: An ethnographic investigation', ''First Monday'', Volume 13 Number 10–6 October 2008 *Friesen, N. (2009)
''Re-Thinking E-Learning Research: Foundations, Methods and Practices''
New York: Peter Lang. *Friesen, N. (2011)
''The Place of the Classroom and the Space of the Screen''
New York: Peter Lang. *Friesen, N. (2013)
''Forgotten Connections: On Culture and Upbringing''
London: Routledge. Translation of: Klaus Mollenhauer. (1983). Vergessene Zusammenhänge: Über Kultur und Erziehung. Munich: Juventa Verlag. *Friesen, N. (2017)
The Lecture and the Textbook - Education in the Age of New Media
Johns Hopkins University Press. *Friesen, N. (2017). The pedagogical relation past and present: experience, subjectivity and failure. ''The Journal of Curriculum Studies 49''(6), 743-756.

References

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