Curriculum Vitae

Education, work experience, and scholarly activities
Course Author
Online/Distance Courses

Sociology 287
Sociology 288
Sociology 290
Sociology 460
Sociology 435
Sociology 445

Editorial Activities

Editorial Review, 3rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
Founding editor Electronic Journal of Sociology (http://www.sociology.org)
Managing editor Electronic Journal of Sociology (http://www.sociology.org)
Founding editor, The Craft (defunct)
Founding editor, Radical Pedagogy
Past Advising Editor, Russian Sociological Forum
Past Editorial Council, Russian Sociological Forum

Education
University of Regina
Department of Sociology
B.A. High Honours, Sociology
B.A. Honours, Psychology
MA Sociology

Sociology of work, the labour process, complex organizations.

Electronic Publications
  • Assisted The Cornerhouse in making the transition to online publication (server space, technical guidance, HTML markup).
Experience
Athabasca University
Department of Sociology
Assistant Professor

1999-present

University of Alberta
Department of Sociology
Sessional Lecturer

Department of Sociology
1997 – 2001

John Yerxa Research
Edmonton, AB
Survey and Research Co-ordinator

1998-2001

Grant Macewan University
Department of Sociology
Instructor

1996-1998

Publications
Peer Reviewed

(2005) McGreal, R., Anderson, T., Hubick, C., Lin, F., Sosteric, M., Tin, T., Yasinska, O. Case study: EduSource and the Athabasca University Digital Library Project. E-Learning Network News< /em> 1(1). Retrieved January 28, 2005, from http://www.astd.org/astd/Publications/Newsletters/elearn_news/jan05_mcgreal.htm

(2004). The International Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication – an idea whose time has come (finally!). Learned Publishing.[http://www.alpsp.org/journal.htm]

(2003) Lowe, Graham, Harvey Krahn and Mike Sosteric. (2004). Influence of Socioeconomic Stgatus and Gender on High-School Seniours’ use of Computers at Home and at School. Alberta Journal of Educational Research 49, no. 2 (Summer 2003): 138–154.

(2003). The Bazaar Online Conference System: Athabasca University’s Alternative to Proprietary Online Course Delivery Platforms. Technology Source, January/February 2003.

(2002). When is a Learning Object not an Object: A first step towards a theory of learning objects. International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 3(1).

(2001). The Upcoming Revolution in the Scholarly Communication System. Journal of Electronic Publication, 7: http://www.press.umich.edu/jep/07-02/sosteric.html

(2001). The Electronic Journal of Sociology: Seven Years of Electronic Publishing. ASA Footnotes [http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/fn21.html]

(1999). Freedom From The Press: Alternative Academic Publication Strategies and the True Potentials of Information Technology. Technology Source: http://technologysource.org/article/freedom_from_the_press/

(1999). Endowing Mediocrity: Neoliberalism, Information Technology, and the Decline of Radical Pedagogy. Radical Pedagogy, 1, 1.

(1998). At the Speed of Thought: Pursuing Non-Commercial Alternatives to Scholarly Communication. ARL Newsletter, 200. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/200/200toc.html

(1998) The University, Accountability, and Market Discipline in the late 1990s. Electronic Journal of Sociology. Electronic Journal of Sociology, 3 (3).

(1997) Electronic Journals: The Grand Information Future? Electronic Journal of Sociology, 2 (2).

(1996) Electronic Journals and the Scholarly Communication Process: Notes and Issues. Electronic Journal of Sociology, 2 (1).

(1996) Subjectivity and the Labour Process: A Case Study in the Food and Beverage Industry. Work, Employment and Society, 10(2).

Book Chapters

(2006). Electronic Journals: The Grand Information Future?’Jean Caswell, Paul G. Haschak, and Dayne Sherman, eds. New Challenges Facing Academic Librarians Today: Electronic Journals,Archival Digitization, Document Delivery, etc. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. Pp. 304, ISBN 0-7734-6013-6, US$119.95.

(2004). Online Education Using Learning Objects (Open and Flexible). New York: Routledge Falmer.

(2000). The New VU and the Changing Market for Higher Education: Creating Opportunity with Technology in Peter Roberts and Mark Chambers Eds. Digital Developments in Higher Education.

Editorial Review

(2002) From Dublin Core to RDF: Canada’s SchoolNet prepares for the Semantic Web through the implementation of CanCore. Working paper. [http://Cancore.athabascau.ca/CanCoreApril28.doc]

(2001) The Electronic Journal of Sociology: Seven Years of Electronic Publishing. ASA Footnotes. Sept/Oct. [http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/septoct01/fn21.html]

(1999). The International Consortium for Alternative Academic Publication: An Idea Whose Time has Come. Felicter, 45(1), 24-26.

(1999). The EJS and SGML Production: A New Era in Scholarly Communication. Electronic Journal of Sociology, 4:1 http://www.sociology.org/content/vol004.001/sosteric.html

(1999). ICAAP eXtended Markup Language: Exploiting XML and Adding Value to the Journals Production Process – Part One. D-Lib Magazine, http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february99/02sosteric.html