The perversion of the Internet: scraping and selling children’s data from ed tech tools
Human Rights Watch (2022) How Dare They Peep into My Private Life? New York: Human Rights Watch, May 25
The promise and the ideal
I remember...
Discussing the strengths and weaknesses of synchronous or asynchronous teaching
The context
I am continuing the process of updating the third version of my open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age, to take account of...
How many students take online and distance courses from outside their own jurisdiction?
NC-SARA (2021) NC-SARA Institution Survey: Perspectives on the Pandemic Boulder CO: NC-SARA
This report gives some interesting information about the actual number of students and...
Defining quality and online learning
The issue
Institutions are struggling to define online or digital learning for their students. In particular, students need to know whether a course requires attendance...
Has online learning gone backwards because of the pandemic?
Back to the classroom model
I was recently struck by a comment my former colleague Diana Laurillard made in a podcast for Mark Nichols' excellent...
Two surveys on academic integrity in online learning during the pandemic
Colby, E. (2022) Concern about Academic Integrity in Online Courses Decreased Among College Instructors After Experience with Remote Instruction Higher Ed Dive 26 January
Wiley (2020)...
More on lecture-based online learning for Teaching in a Digital Age
Wow, thanks to several readers for some great and speedy feedback on Discussing classroom-type online learning, a revision for the third edition of Teaching...
Discussing classroom-type online learning
I am slowly working on the third edition of Teaching in a Digital Age. I have added a section to the first chapter on...
Groundhog day in online learning? What’s different this time
The pandemic grinds on
I've entered 2022 with a sense of déjà vu. After nearly two years of Covid, it's like going back to the...
What I did in online learning in 2021
This is my (self-imposed) 'accountability' report for 2021, mainly for personal reasons, but it will also give readers of this blog a chance to...