2016: The Year I Failed Retirement
The new age of retirement
I decided in April 2014 'to stop (nearly) all professional activities from now onwards'. I argued that 'it is dangerous...
Online learning in 2016: a personal review
Image: © Institute for Economics and Peace. Canada is ranked seventh most peaceful. We don't know where it ranks though in terms of online...
Webinar on choosing modes of delivery and the role of face-to-face teaching in an...
On Tuesday I gave another in the Contact North series of webinars designed around my open, online textbook for faculty and instructors, Teaching in...
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...
What the Conference Board of Canada thinks about online learning
Grant, M. (2016) Learning in the Digital Age Ottawa: Conference Board of Canada
The Conference Board of Canada bills itself as 'the foremost independent, evidence-based,...
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...
Welcome back and what you may have missed in online learning over the summer
I hope you all had a great summer break and have come back fully charged for another always challenging year in teaching. I thought...
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: 9. How can I do online learning well?
This is the ninth in a series of ten blog posts aimed at those new to online learning or thinking of possibly doing it. The previous...
ISBN and citation for ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’
ISBNs
I have now navigated Library and Archives Canada's system to get ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers) issued for Teaching in a Digital Age and...