A brighter future for Athabasca University?
Coates, K. (2017) Independent Third-Party Review of Athabasca University Saskatoon, SK
This report, 45 pages in length plus extensive appendices, was jointly commissioned by the...
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...
What counts when you cost online learning?
Poulin, R. and Straut, T. (2017) Distance Education Price and Cost Report Boulder CO: WCET
This highly controversial report has generated considerable discussion in WCET's...
Is there light at the end of the tunnel for Athabasca University?
Climenhaga, D. (2017) Athabasca U’s future seems brighter as Saskatchewan prof named to conduct sustainability review Albertapolitics.ca, January 19
Climenhaga, D. (2016) Alberta Government names five new...
2016: The Year I Failed Retirement
The new age of retirement
I decided in April 2014 'to stop (nearly) all professional activities from now onwards'. I argued that 'it is dangerous...
Webinar on choosing modes of delivery and the role of face-to-face teaching in an...
On Tuesday I gave another in the Contact North series of webinars designed around my open, online textbook for faculty and instructors, Teaching in...
Are you ready for blended learning?
I've just come back from visiting two universities in central Canada and I have also been getting feedback from pilot institutions on the questionnaire we...
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...
Scary tales of online learning and educational technology
The Educational Technology Users Group (ETUG) of British Columbia held an appropriately Halloween-themed get together today called 'The Little Workshop of Horrors' at which participants...
What the Conference Board of Canada thinks about online learning
Grant, M. (2016) Learning in the Digital Age Ottawa: Conference Board of Canada
The Conference Board of Canada bills itself as 'the foremost independent, evidence-based,...