Working on the second edition of Teaching in a Digital Age: some lessons learned...
I have been very quiet with my blog, partly due to having fun in the summer, but also because I am in the process...
Welcome back to online learning
I hope all my readers in the northern hemisphere have had as good a summer as we have had here in Vancouver, and you...
Book review: Open and Distance Education Theory Revisited
Jung, I. (ed.) Open and Distance Education Theory Revisited Singapore: Springer, 122 pp, US$44.99 (ePub issue); US$29.95 per chapter
Why this book?
This book, edited by...
Back to the Future: open pedagogy, learning design, and ETUG’s 25th anniversary conference
Happy anniversary, ETUG!
Last week I spent two days at the British Columbia Educational Technology Users' Group conference at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops. ETUG was...
The Coming Crisis in Canadian Post-secondary Education: 1 – External Developments
Where's the disruption?
I don't normally get excited about talk of digital technology disrupting higher education, especially when that talk originates from south of the...
Regional report on online learning in the provinces of Atlantic Canada
Even though institutions are currently in the process of collecting and returning data for the 2019 survey of online learning in Canadian post-secondary institutions,...
Online and problem-based learning: the Danish experience
Aalborg University and digital learning
I have just completed a visit to my third Danish university (University of Copenhagen in 2004, Syddansk University in 2017,...
The Open University is 50 years old today
BBC (2019) Open University: Photos Issued to Mark 50th Anniversary, April 17
My personal story
The British Open University received its charter on April 23, 1969....
Who dunnit? Identifying the major online providers in Canadian post-secondary education
The story so far
In earlier posts about the Canadian Digital Learning Research Association's latest 2018 survey of online learning in Canadian post-secondary institutions, I...
Is the current use of video a step backwards in online learning?
The use of video
There is evidence from the two national surveys of online learning in Canadian post-secondary education that video is increasingly being used...