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...
Spotlight on online experiential learning at Ryerson University
A week or so ago, I had the opportunity to visit the Digital Education Strategies team at the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing...
Research on ‘academic innovation centres’ supporting online learning
Bishop, M. and Keehn, A. (2015) Leading Academic Change: An Early market Scan of Leading-edge Postsecondary Academic Innovation Centers Adelphi ML: William E. Kirwan centre...
Don’t want to retire? Alternatives to dying on campus
Kaskie, B. et al. (2012) Promoting Workplace Longevity and Desirable Retirement Pathways Within Academic Institutions TIAFF-CREF Institute, March
Marcus, J. (2015) Aging faculty who won’t leave thwart...
Australia moves backwards from online apprenticeship training
Raggatt, M. (2015) Government slammed for dumping Energise Oz electrician apprenticeship program Brisbane Times, October 10
Those of you with Netflix may have been watching the...
Online learning and a knowledge-based economy
Florida, R. and Spencer, G. (2015) Canada has two growth models, but we've been neglecting one Globe and Mail, Oct 7
Boyd, D. (2015) Canada’s party...
Is there a future in online learning?
I hope all readers of this blog in the northern hemisphere had a good break and are looking forward to a new academic year....
Book review: A History of the Open University
Weinbren, D. (2105) The Open University: A History Manchester: Manchester University Press/The Open University, 274 pp + notes, £18.99, C$31.61, US$22.30 (paperback edition)
Why you...
Non-disclosure, plausible deniability and lack of transparency in leadership: UBC and the Duffy trial
The need to know
Even if you have been holidaying in outer Mongolia, you are probably aware (if you are Canadian) of the trial of Senator...
Book review: Teaching and Learning in Digital Worlds
Gisbert, T. and Bullen, M. (2015) Teaching and Learning in Digital Worlds: Strategies and Issues in Higher Education Tarragona Spain: Publicacions Universitat Rovira i...