The day Spain lost Catalonia
I'm in Barcelona for a conference on innovation in teaching in higher education, organized by the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). As I worked...
Virtual Reality and education: some thoughts
I spent a very interesting evening this week at a Vancouver VR Community event at Mobify's headquarters in downtown Vancouver. Mobify is a provider...
Update on Canadian survey of online learning
This update builds on two earlier posts:
Building a national survey of online learning in Canada
What is online learning? Seeking a definition
The online...
One reason we are not getting enough engineers in Canada: the professional associations
From nearly 2,500 posts over nine years, none has generated so many comments as Can you teach 'real' engineering at a distance?
What you will see...
Tracking innovations in online learning in Canada
I've not been blogging much recently because, frankly, I've been too busy, and not on the golf course or ski slopes, either. (Yeah, so...
A Spanish version of ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’ is now available
I am very pleased to announced that La Enseñanza en la Era Digital, a complete, open, online Spanish version of 'Teaching in a Digital Age', translated...
2016: The Year I Failed Retirement
The new age of retirement
I decided in April 2014 'to stop (nearly) all professional activities from now onwards'. I argued that 'it is dangerous...
Online learning in 2016: a personal review
Image: © Institute for Economics and Peace. Canada is ranked seventh most peaceful. We don't know where it ranks though in terms of online...
Are you ready for blended learning?
I've just come back from visiting two universities in central Canada and I have also been getting feedback from pilot institutions on the questionnaire we...
Building a national survey of online learning in Canada
The players
Since April I have been leading a small team that has been trying to build from scratch a national survey of online learning...