From access to digitalisation: the changing role of online learning
I was away last week in Denmark, helping with the development of a new business degree at Aalborg University. I was there to do...
Online learning in 2020: perfect vision in the Year of the Rat
No, no firm predictions from me for 2020 other than more of the same from 2019, plus something unexpected. However, I will suggest three...
Results for 2019 survey of online learning in Canadian post-secondary institutions now available
Canadian Digital Learning Research Association (2019) National Survey of Online and Digital Learning 2019 National Report Halifax NS: Canadian Digital Learning Research Association
CDLRA has...
Learning analytics and gamification: a significant study
This is the third post reviewing articles in the journal Distance Education, Vol. 40, No.3, a special edition on learning analytics in distance education....
Learning analytics and personality traits: a scary night-time story
This is the second post reviewing articles in the journal Distance Education, Vol. 40, No.3, a special edition on learning analytics in distance education....
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...
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...
Back to the Future: open pedagogy, learning design, and ETUG’s 25th anniversary conference
Happy anniversary, ETUG!
Last week I spent two days at the British Columbia Educational Technology Users' Group conference at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops. ETUG was...
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...