In memoriam: Ingeborg Bø
The used to say that distance educators never die, they just fade away, but alas, that is not true.
Ingeborg, who was Director of the...
Québec’s Téluq in trouble
Téluq (the Télé-université within the Université du Québec System) has for many years been a major provider of university-level distance education courses for francophones.
Last...
Notice: website under redesign
This web site is now more than 10 years old, and the design has not changed over this period. In the meantime, there have...
Book review: Open and Distance Education in Australia, Europe and the Americas
Qayyum, A. and Zawacki-Richter, O. (eds.) Open and Distance Education in Australia, Europe and the Americas: National Perspectives in a Digital Age Singapore: Springer, US$24+
Why...
Woolf University: the Airbnb of higher education or a sheep in wolf’s clothing?
Broggi, J.D. et al. (2018) Building the first blockchain university, Oxford UK, April 3
You are going to hear a lot about Woolf University over...
Some very good news for Athabasca University (and its students)
Graney, J. (2018) Athabasca University gets $4.9 million grant to upgrade outdated IT Edmonton Journal, June 8
One year on from the delivery of the...
Free online courses on English for Syrian refugees
FutureLearn (2018) New free online courses launched to help Syrian refugees continue their education FE News.co.uk, June 8
Kings College, the University of London, has...
A new survey of online learning in Canadian universities and colleges for 2018
The News
Following the success of the 2017 national survey of online learning in Canadian post-secondary education, an invitation to participate in the 2018 version...
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...