Online learning for beginners: 4. ‘What kinds of online learning are there?’
This is the fourth of a series of a dozen blog posts aimed at those new to online learning or thinking of possibly doing...
Online learning for beginners: 2. Isn’t online learning worse than face-to-face teaching?
The short answer to this question is: no, online learning is neither inherently worse - nor better - than face-to-face teaching; it all depends on the circumstances.
The research...
Getting faculty and instructors into online learning
I mentioned in an earlier post that we don't always do a very good job in helping people new to the field of online learning...
Building an effective learning environment
I was asked by the Chang School of Continuing Studies at Ryerson University to do a master class on this topic at their ChangSchoolTalks...
Developing a next generation online learning assessment system
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (2016) An Adaptive Trust-based e-assessment system for learning (@TeSLA) Barcelona: UOC
This paper describes a large, collaborative European Commission project headed by...
Automation or empowerment: online learning at the crossroads
You are probably, like me, getting tired of the different predictions for 2016. So I’m not going to do my usual look forward for...
Low-cost online courses in film and media studies: do they work?
Alexander, I. (2015) Over 30,000 students took these online film and media courses Film Industry Network, November 17
I haven't been following Udemy, the former...
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...
Independent reviews of Teaching in a Digital Age now published
I have now received the three independent reviews I requested for my open, online textbook for faculty and instructors, called 'Teaching in a Digital...
Guidelines for reviewing an open textbook
I'm not sure that there is much of an immediate 'market' for these posts on issues around developing an open textbook (or maybe everyone...