Second edition of Teaching in a Digital Age now published
The second edition of Teaching in a Digital Age is now available at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/teachinginadigitalagev2/
The first edition was published in 2015. The second edition is...
How to remove the barriers to innovation in higher education and online learning
Morriss-Olson, M. (2017) Why is it so difficult to nurture innovation and academic entrepreneurship at a college or university? Academic Impressions, March 9
Barriers to...
Some thoughts on the future of public higher education
One of the responses I had to my series on the coming crisis to post-secondary education in Canada was: 'Well, what do you think...
Discussing the future of higher education in the holiday season
Mrig, A. and Sanaghan, P. (2019) The Future of Education: Will Higher Education Seize the Future or Fall Victim to IT? Academic Impressions
I've been...
The Coming Crisis in Canadian Post-secondary Education: 3 – Some strategies for survival
The issue
I have argued in earlier posts that universities and colleges (everywhere, not just Canada) need to move more quickly into digital learning for...
The Coming Crisis in Canadian Post-secondary Education: 2 – The Canadian context
This is the second in a series of posts on this topic. The first post looked at external developments that will influence Canadian post-secondary...
The Coming Crisis in Canadian Post-secondary Education: 1 – External Developments
Where's the disruption?
I don't normally get excited about talk of digital technology disrupting higher education, especially when that talk originates from south of the...
What are the key online learning markets over the next few years?
Lomas, S. and Ashburn, E. (2019) The next wave of online education San Francisco CA: Entangled Solutions
Schroeder, R. (2019) Plotting the Future of Your...
Online and problem-based learning: the Danish experience
Aalborg University and digital learning
I have just completed a visit to my third Danish university (University of Copenhagen in 2004, Syddansk University in 2017,...
Rethinking the purpose of online learning: 4. Developing skills for a digital society
This series is turning out to be longer than I initially anticipated. In the first three posts I looked at the following possible reasons...