Rethinking the purpose of online learning: 2. Using online learning to reduce the costs...
This is the second of three posts examining the purpose of online and digital learning. In the first post I looked at the government...
Rethinking the purpose of online learning: 1. Ontario’s k-12 initiative
What is the purpose of online learning?
Online learning has been hitting the headlines recently:
the Ontario government requiring every high school student to take...
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...
First Nations art and dance, a new campus, and moving to sustainable open education:...
I apologise for the lack of blog posts these last couple of months. I have been busy analysing and writing up data on course...
New web site now live
You can see that with the help of MARSWorks Ltd and Contact North, my web site now has a new design. The old one...
Update on the 2018 national survey of online learning
The return of questionnaires for the 2018 national survey of online learning and distance education in Canadian universities and colleges is now closed. The...
Why is innovation in teaching in HE so difficult? 4. Integrating online and distance...
This is the fourth and final post in this series. The previous three were:
1. The accreditation agencies?
2. Legacy systems
3. Learning management...
Is Blackboard dying? The latest instalment in LMS wars.
Feldstein, M. (2018) Canvas Surpasses Blackboard Learn in US Market Share, eLiterate, July 8
Kroner, G. (2018) Sensationalizing LMS Market Share in an Era of Fake News,...
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...