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...
A better ranking system for university teaching?
Redden, E. (2017) Britain Tries to Evaluate Teaching Quality Inside Higher Ed, June 22
This excellent article describes in detail a new three-tiered rating system of...
Update on Canadian survey of online learning
This update builds on two earlier posts:
Building a national survey of online learning in Canada
What is online learning? Seeking a definition
The online...
One business case for OER examined
Law, P. and Perryman, L.-A. (2017) How OpenLearn supports a business model for OER Distance Education, Vol. 38, No. 1
The journal: 'Distance Education'
Distance Education...
Latest data on USA distance education enrolments
Digital Learning Compass (2017) Distance Education Enrolment Report 2017 Wellesley MA
A new partnership for the analysis of distance education data in the USA
First, a little...
One reason we are not getting enough engineers in Canada: the professional associations
From nearly 2,500 posts over nine years, none has generated so many comments as Can you teach 'real' engineering at a distance?
What you will see...
A report on university distance education in Québec
Conseil supérieur de l'éducation (2015) La formation à distance dans les universités québécoises: un potential à optimiser Québec: Gouvernement du Québec
This report is now...
Tracking innovations in online learning in Canada
I've not been blogging much recently because, frankly, I've been too busy, and not on the golf course or ski slopes, either. (Yeah, so...
Building a national survey of online learning in Canada
The players
Since April I have been leading a small team that has been trying to build from scratch a national survey of online learning...
A survey of distance education in Brazil
ABED (2016) 2015 Brazilian Census for Distance Learning: Analytical Report on Distance Learning in Brazil São Paulo, Brazil: Associação Brasileira de Educação a Distância (ABED)
“In God we...