%0 Journal Article
%T Editorial ~ CIDER is Born
%A Terry Anderson
%A Canada Research Chair in Distance Education
%J International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning
%D 2004
%I Athabasca University Press
%X With significant male trepidation, I want to share a birth story with IRRODL readers. This month, after a seemingly endless gestation, the Canadian Institute for Distance Education Research (CIDER) was born. Like most births, this new presence began with a blissful consummation, when I accepted the Canada Research Chair in Distance education at Athabasca University. After a very short honeymoon, a couple of miscarriages, and a few lover's spats that marked the relationship between the Center for Distance Education and myself, we struggled to determine the type of prot¨¦g¨¦e we wanted to birth. The within the womb (in house) development of the visible image and website took shape, which like all gestations, was marked by some lower backache, punctuated by a few graphic images that turned out to be false labour.
%K commuity of practice
%K institute
%K distance education
%K open education
%U http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/209/292