Professor Terry Anderson from Athabasca University holds his keynote speech at the Next Generation Learning Conference 2012, NGL 2012. The topic is Social networking in distance education programming. Terry Anderson is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Distance Education at Athabasca University - Canada's Open University. He has published widely in the area of distance education and educational technology and has co-authored or edited seven books and numerous papers. He teaches educational technology courses in Athabasca University Masters and Doctorate of Distance Education programs. His research interests focus on interaction and social media in distance education contexts. For more information about the conference visit: http://www.du.se/ngl