Online learning and the fall semester: advice for decision-makers
I really do not envy those university and college administrators trying to work out what to do for this coming fall semester. This will...
Two webinars on the future of online learning next week
I am offering two quite different webinars next week on the future of online learning.
Contact North
This will be the last in my series of...
12 shortish videos on Teaching in a Digital Age
The videos
At the request of the Commonwealth of Learning, I have, with their help, developed 12 short videos introducing the main themes of my...
Crashing into online learning: a report from five continents – and some conclusions
I am beginning to come across reports of how different countries around the world are moving to online learning as a result of Covid-19,...
First data on the shift to emergency online learning
Lederman, D. (2020) How Teaching Changed in the (Forced) Shift to Remote Inside Higher Education, April 22
Who did the study?
This is a report of...
2. Emergency online learning and inequity: developing countries
One term, many contexts
If I was uncomfortable writing my previous post, I am even more uncomfortable about writing this one. 'Developing countries' is not...
Emergency online learning and inequity: developed countries
I have come across a number of articles (see for instance Brown and Salmi, 2020), and received several e-mails, pointing out that a sudden...
Online enrolments after Covid-19: a prediction, part 2 – policy implications
My prediction
In my previous post, I predicted that over the next 10 years, fully online learning will grow to about 20-25% of all course...
What should we be doing about online learning when social distancing ends?
Transitioning from panic to control
Planning is a bit of a luxury in a crisis. You do triage until you can get back to normal....
Webinar recording: From panic to peace of mind: transitioning to online learning
I had the privilege of delivering the first in a series of webinars organised by the European Distance Education Network (EDEN) on Education in...