Responses to the Canadian survey of online and distance learning
Hi, everyone, and welcome back. I hope you all had a great summer. As many readers will know, I am leading a team conducting...
Are you ready for blended learning?
I've just come back from visiting two universities in central Canada and I have also been getting feedback from pilot institutions on the questionnaire we...
Initiating instructors to online learning: 10 fundamentals
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What? Not ANOTHER book from me? Well, no, not quite.
'Teaching in a Digital Age' has been a great success but...
Online learning for beginners: 10. Ready to go
This is the last in a series of ten blog posts aimed at those faculty and instructors in higher education new to online teaching or thinking of...
Online learning for beginners: 4. ‘What kinds of online learning are there?’
This is the fourth of a series of a dozen blog posts aimed at those new to online learning or thinking of possibly doing...
Examining ethical and privacy issues surrounding learning analytics
Drachsler, H. et al. (2016) Is Privacy a Show-stopper for Learning Analytics? A Review of Current Issues and Their Solutions Learning Analytics Review, no. 6,...
EDEN 2016: Re-imagining Learning Environments
The EDEN conference
I have just attended the annual conference of the European Distance and E-Learning Network in Budapest, Hungary.
EDEN is one of my favourite conferences...
Culture and effective online learning environments
Figure A 1 from the original version of ‘Teaching at a Distance’
Over the last two months I have done a couple of workshops on...
Building an effective learning environment
I was asked by the Chang School of Continuing Studies at Ryerson University to do a master class on this topic at their ChangSchoolTalks...
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of the first fully online course
The first fully online course?
I was talking to Linda Harasim earlier this week (we both live and work in the Vancouver area). Linda is...