Online learning for beginners: 2. Isn’t online learning worse than face-to-face teaching?
The short answer to this question is: no, online learning is neither inherently worse - nor better - than face-to-face teaching; it all depends on the circumstances.
The research...
Online learning for beginners: 1. What is online learning?
Getting started in online learning?
Every day, someone new either thinks about doing an online course, or is pressured into doing one. You may have...
Getting faculty and instructors into online learning
I mentioned in an earlier post that we don't always do a very good job in helping people new to the field of online learning...
Talking numbers about open publishing and online learning
Please forgive me here for a little self-indulgence. By sheer coincidence, two statistics converged yesterday.
2 million blog post hits
First, I passed the 2 million...
French version of ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’ now available
The French version of 'Teaching in a Digital Age', L'enseignement a l'ère numerique', is now available from here.
I am very grateful to Contact North|Contact Nord...
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...
Innovation in online teaching in a Mexican university
The University of Guadalajara
I spent last week in and around Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco in Mexico. The Universidad de Guadalajara, whose origins go...
Recording of webinar on choosing modes of delivery
This morning I gave my third webinar in the Contact North series based on my online, open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age. There were...
My life in Wordle
I received this 'gift' from the Inholland Research Group Teaching and Learning with Technology. They took my 'full' CV (over 60 pages) and ran it...
How to get started in blended learning: an interview with Tony Bates
Following my keynote at the ‘Dé Onderwijsdagen’ conference in the Netherlands this week (a blog post about my presentation and a video recording of the...