Technology, teaching and productivity: the need for theory
The need for greater productivity in higher education teaching
I'm going to make a few posts on this topic, prompted by pressure from politicians in...
MOOCs, MIT and Magic
MOOC panel: Dan Hastings, Anant Agarwal, Tony Bates, Sanjay Sarma, John Daniel
In my previous post, there were two sessions at the LINC 2013 conference...
MIT, learning technologies, and developing countries: lessons in technology transfer
This week I spent three days at the MIT LINC (Learning International Networks Consortium) conference in Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the theme: 'Realizing the Dream:...
The beginning of the end of the lecture hall?
The conference in Orlando
University Business is a magazine that focuses on equipment and facilities, including IT and AV systems. UB thus has its pulse...
CNIE conference on Leadership and Innovation in Learning
I was in Ottawa in early May also to give a keynote at the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education conference. I am ashamed...
Discussing design models for hybrid/blended learning and the impact on the campus
A couple of weeks ago I had an interesting meeting with about 25 instructional designers from UBC, where we discussed design models for hybrid...
Can you teach lab science via remote labs?
Contact North (2013) The Colorado Community College System Sudbury ON: Contact North
Contact North has been developing a series of posts on institutions that are 'game-changers'...
No. 8 aha moment: web 2.0 will change everything in online learning
This is the ninth (and last) in a series of posts about the most seminal ‘discoveries’ in my researching and working in educational technology,...
No. 7 aha moment: strategy matters in online learning
This is the eighth in a series of posts about the most seminal ‘discoveries’ in my researching and working in educational technology, where I...
UBC is going big with online and flexible learning
Yesterday (March 11), Stephen Toope, the president of the University of British Columbia, sent an e-mail to all faculty announcing a strategy to increase...