My seven ‘a-ha’ moments in the history of educational technology
A good question
I get asked a lot of questions about online learning, educational technology and distance education, but recently I was asked one that...
Special edition of Open Praxis: Openness in Higher Education
Visualisation of the History of Openness in Education © Peters and Deimann, 2013
Openness in Higher Education (2103) Open Praxis, Vol. 5, No. 1
What is Open...
Online learning in California generates controversy
Booker, E. (2013) Online education policy draws fire in California Information Week: Education, January 11
This report of a one-day conference at UCLA: 'Rebooting Higher Education:...
Outlook for online learning in 2013: online learning comes of age
FunTab Class 9.1 Android ICS Tablet: will 2013 be the year of the tablet?
In a previous post, I talked about the difficulties in making...
Why predicting online learning developments is risky but necessary
Before drawing up my outlook for 2013, I want to discuss the important topic of prediction in online learning, in particular how predictions are...
Important developments in online learning in India in 2012
In my e-Learning Outlook for 2012 published on January 2 in 2012 I wrote:
Watch India
.....there are several reasons behind this prediction:
the Indian government’s decision to subsidize...
Online learning in 2012: a retrospective
Well, 2012 was certainly the year of the MOOC. Audrey Watters provides a comprehensive overview of what happened with MOOCs in 2012, so I...
An archive of alI I know about online learning
At the recent COHERE conference I delivered two keynotes:
Meeting the challenge of technology: are we failing as managers?
Designing university teaching to meet the needs...
Research and development in online learning from the Open University of Catalonia
Two weeks ago I visited two open universities (the UK OU and the Open University of Catalonia) and a research lab of the Institute...
European open universities feeling the stress of austerity
A trip down Memory Lane
I've just returned from a very interesting week in Europe, accompanied by my colleague, Maxim Jean-Louis, the President of Contact...