First Nations art and dance, a new campus, and moving to sustainable open education:...
I apologise for the lack of blog posts these last couple of months. I have been busy analysing and writing up data on course...
How serious should we be about serious games in online learning?
In the 2017 national survey of online learning in post-secondary education, and indeed in the Pockets of Innovation project, serious games were hardly mentioned...
Active learning at the Royal Military College of Canada
The RMC
Following my trip to the UK Open University, I visited the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, where I was a keynote speaker...
Online learning and disruptive change at the UK Open University
Sturm und Strang
I've was in England last week, attending the 7th eSTEeM conference at the Open University as the opening keynote speaker, only my...
What I learned from the ICDE World Conference on Online Learning
The conference
I've just got back from Toronto where last week I was one of more than 1,400 participants from 95 countries in the International...
Will I see you at the ICDE World Conference on Online Learning this week?
The conference
ICDE's world conference lands at the Sheraton Hotel in Toronto this week.
I am very much looking forward to the coming week in Toronto....
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...
Pushing the boundaries of higher education – in Barcelona
If you are going to push any boundaries, Barcelona is as good a place as any to do it. Home of Antoni Gaudi, Joan Miró,...
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...