Happy holidays
My photo's a bit of a cheat as it was taken in 2009, and it's going to rain in Vancouver on Christmas Day this...
E-learning in 2011: a retrospective
'That was the year that was, it's over, let it go...', as the old song says. But before it does go, let's look back...
Posts from a foreign land: Online Educa 2011, No. 3: Public Education ( #oeb11...
Introduction
This is the last of three posts on the Online Educa Berlin 2011 conference and here I focus on the three education sessions I...
Posts from a foreign land: Online Educa 2011, No. 2: Corporate Learning ( #oeb11...
Introduction
I realise that there's only one thing more 'dead' than yesterday's newspaper and that's yesterday's conference, so I apologise for the gap of two...
Posts from a foreign land: Online Educa 2011, No. 1 ( #oeb11 )
Why I'm here
This will be the first of several posts on this year's Online Educa Berlin conference. This is the first time I have...
From dream to reality: why implementation is as important as goal setting in e-learning
Two recent developments have brought home clearly the need to consider and discuss implementation strategies at the same time as setting educational goals. The...
Changes to this web site
This whole web site will be down for 24 hours between midnight (EST) Friday, 18 November and midnight (EST) Saturday, 19 November.
I apologize for...
Is online learning a waste of space?
What are the implications of online enrollments for space use on campus?
As more and more students enroll in online courses, questions arise as to...
Adjuncts, LMSs and lack of training: an accident waiting to happen?
The use of underpaid, untrained adjunct faculty is one of higher education's dirty little secrets, especially (but not only) in the USA. The two...
Book review: Clark Quinn’s ‘The Mobile Academy’
Quinn, C. (2012) The Mobile Academy: mLearning for Higher Education San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/John Wiley, 120 pp
The author points out that 90% of the world's...