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Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics: WCET’s analysis of distance education enrolments in the USA

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Russell Poulin and Terri Straut have done an invaluable analysis of recent data on distance education enrolments in the USA in the following three...

Choosing a ‘good’ post-secondary online learning program

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I am constantly asked to recommend 'good' online learning programs. This is a difficult question to answer, as it’s impossible for any single person to...

Nine questions to ask when choosing modes of delivery

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This is the fifth of five posts on choosing modes of delivery for Chapter 10 of my online open textbook, Teaching in a Digital...

Challenging the supremacy of face-to-face teaching

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This is the second of five posts on choosing appropriate modes of delivery, part of Chapter 10 of my online open textbook, Teaching in...

Deciding on modes of delivery

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This is the first of a series of five posts that look at the following: deciding whether a whole course or program should be offered wholly...

My five wishes for online learning in 2015

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Predictions, schmedictions. No-one can guess the future but we can at least say what we would like to see. So here are my five...

Students as a criterion for media selection in online learning

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Decisions are being made every day by government, institutions, teachers and students about technology use in education. How are these decisions made? What criteria...

Review of ‘Online Distance Education: Towards a Research Agenda.’

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Zawacki-Richter, O. and Anderson, T. (eds.) (2014) Online Distance Education: Towards a Research Agenda Athabasca AB: AU Press, pp. 508 It is somewhat daunting to review...

‘The Economist’ on online learning

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Insight (2014) The democratisation of learning The Economist, September 26 This is a well-balanced and well-researched article on online learning in post-secondary education, even if...

Instructional design, the academy and industry: a ‘blended’ event

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What: The Academy and Industry: Exploring Instructional Design Roles In a professional discipline, sometimes there can be uneasy tensions between those in the Academy (i.e. professors...