Norm Friesen
Norm Friesen is Professor in Educational Technology at Boise State University and Canada Research Chair in E-Learning Practices at Thompson Rivers University.
Norm Friesen studied German Literature, Secondary Education, and Communication at the Johns Hopkins University, University of Alberta and Simon Fraser University. He has undertaken teaching and research at the University of Toronto, the University of Innsbruck and Athabasca University.
He has led the CanCore Learning object metadata 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 ISO/IEC JTC 1 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.. , Athabasca University.
- Friesen, N.. . In McGreal, R. Online Education Using Learning Objects. London: Routledge. pp. 59–70.
- Friesen, N. & Hopkins J., ' Wikiversity; or education meets the free culture movement: An ethnographic investigation', First Monday, Volume 13 Number 10–6 October 2008
- Friesen, N.. . New York: Peter Lang.
- Friesen, N.. . New York: Peter Lang.
- Friesen, N.. . London: Routledge. Translation of: Klaus Mollenhauer.. Vergessene Zusammenhänge: Über Kultur und Erziehung. Munich: Juventa Verlag.
- Friesen, N.. . Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Friesen, N.. The pedagogical relation past and present: experience, subjectivity and failure. The Journal of Curriculum Studies 49, 743-756.