Talking numbers about open publishing and online learning
Please forgive me here for a little self-indulgence. By sheer coincidence, two statistics converged yesterday.
2 million blog post hits
First, I passed the 2 million...
French version of ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’ now available
The French version of 'Teaching in a Digital Age', L'enseignement a l'ère numerique', is now available from here.
I am very grateful to Contact North|Contact Nord...
Culture and effective online learning environments
Figure A 1 from the original version of ‘Teaching at a Distance’
Over the last two months I have done a couple of workshops on...
Technology and alienation: symptoms, causes and a framework for discussion
This is the second post on the topic of technology, alienation and the role of education, with a particular focus on the consequences for...
Technology, alienation and the role of education: an introduction
Is there a problem here?
I live a 30 minute drive from the U.S. border, and like many of my fellow Canadians (and many U.S....
Building an effective learning environment
I was asked by the Chang School of Continuing Studies at Ryerson University to do a master class on this topic at their ChangSchoolTalks...
Some comments on synchronous online learning technologies
Last week was a week of synchronous online sessions for me. I did 'virtual' keynotes into conferences in Tehran, Iran, and Beirut, the Lebanon, as...
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the first fully online course
The first fully online course?
I was talking to Linda Harasim earlier this week (we both live and work in the Vancouver area). Linda is...
Automation or empowerment: online learning at the crossroads
You are probably, like me, getting tired of the different predictions for 2016. So I’m not going to do my usual look forward for...
A Happy Online Learning New Year for 2016
I wish all the readers of this blog a wonderful New Year. May your online courses be innovative, fun and highly effective in developing...