A review of online learning in 2020
2020: Goodbye - and don't come back
What a terrible year. 1.63 million horrible, choking deaths from the coronavirus, and 73 million infected to date....
How a small university successfully pivoted online
The challenge
Algoma University is a small university (about 2,000 students) based in Sault Ste. Marie in northern Ontario, but with satellite campuses in Brampton...
Online learning learning and the future of work: podcast
The Indira Gandhi National Open University of India (IGNOU) has developed a series of podcasts on the Future of Work under its Freedom2Learn program.
I...
Impact of emergency remote learning on college success and retention
Lundqvist, A., Rice, A. and Widenhorn, M. (2020) The Pandemic College Student Experience:Implications for Student Success and Retention Anthology Inc., November
The 'quick and dirty'...
Students’ responses to remote learning in the fall: Top Hat survey
Top Hat (2020) Higher Ed Students Grade the Fall 2020 Semester, Top Hat (accessed November 19, no published date)
Top Hat is an online publisher...
Is this the future of online learning?
Rosen, K. (2020) 2020: Lost Year of Schooling or Year One in a New Era of Education? Attention FWD, November 12
I found this an...
Free online modules for k-12 teachers on how to teach online
Following on from my post yesterday about the lack of training for k-12 teachers in how to teach online during the pandemic, I am...
How Canadian schools (k-12) prepared for the fall in 2020
Nagle, J., Barbour, M. and LaBonte, R. (2020) A Fall Like No Other: Between Basics and Preparing for an Extended Transition During Turmoil Canadian...
Post-Pandemic Lesson 2: Support for instructors is essential for quality online learning
This is the second of 10 Lessons from a Post-Pandemic World. For the other nine, click here.
“The main lesson is we need to increase...
Post-Pandemic Lesson 1: Online and blended learning will increase substantially post-COVID-19
This is the first of 10 Lessons from a Post-Pandemic World. For the other nine, click here.
“…in blended learning, student performance improves over both...