Terry Anderson
As a Canada Research Chair, Terry Anderson is the principal investigator on a number of research initiatives including the Social Networking Initiative at Athabasca, eduSource Pan-Canadian Network of Learning Object Repositories, the Campus Alberta Repository of Education Objects (CAREO), and the Alberta SuperNet Research Network.
He has published widely in the area of distance education and educational technology and has coauthored or edited six books and numerous papers. His book Theory and Practice of Online Learning and other books in the Issues in Distance Series, that he edits, are available for open access download at Athabasca University Press (aupress.ca).
Anderson is an active keynote and regular session speaker at a variety of education, distance education and net based learning conferences. During the past 8 years he has been a keynote speaker at 40 such conferences.
He teaches educational technology courses in Athabasca’s master’s and doctoral distance education programs, which are the largest of their kind in the world. He is also the director of the Canadian Institute for Distance Education Research (CIDER) and the editor of the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning.
Anderson received a BA in psychology and a bachelor of education in industrial arts from the University of Alberta and an MS in computer education from the University of Oregon. He completed a doctorate in education psychology at the University of Calgary, with a specialty in educational computer applications.
