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Estimated Reading Time: 25 minutes Below is the text of the defense of my dissertation but you can also read the dissertation itself here on ScholarWorks . As promised, here is the text of my defense for those that couldn't make it or were interested in revisiting it.  You can also check out the slides here .  If you haven't read about the experience, well, you can check it out here .

Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes Source: ChatGPT Well, it's done. I successfully defended my dissertation; I'm now just have edits to incorporate and getting it through the institutional process.  Damn--I finally did it!  After writing some 60+ posts on this subject ( Started here and continues with this tag ), I'm within a handful of posts to wrap up the (chronologically) longest series I've done on this blog.   So how was the defense?  It was everything I needed it to be and more.   I spent the few weeks before trying to work to construct the presentation so that it would make sense both to my audience and my committee.  I got a draft and recorded it for my chair.  He provided rich feedback that told me I was on the right track and that I needed to refine a few parts to keep the focus forward going.  I practiced a few more times and felt largely ready for the presentation part.  After all, presenting complex ideas to folks that ...

Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes Welcome! This blog post is part 3 and the last installment of my side of an ongoing conversation between myself and Stacey M. Johnson . Since we met a few months ago, we’ve been in an ongoing dialog about some of our favorite issues in teaching and educational technology. We decided to take the dialog public on our blogs. Image source: Chatgpt Want to review past posts? Stacey’s Part 1 –  Dialogs on Teaching: We Need Less Innovation Lance’s Part 1 –  Dialogues on Teaching #1: innovation vs. Innovation Stacey’s Part 2 –  Dialogs on Teaching: We Need More Connection Lance’s Part 2 –  Dialogs on Teaching #2: transformational and transactional learning Stacey's Part 3 –  Dialogs on Teaching: We Need Room to Flourish This is my response to Stacey's last post and my final post in this series...for now.  Stacey, you've done it again—you brought thoughtful and compelling considerations that elevated questions and th...