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