Staying Online: a new book by Robert Ubell
Ubell, R. (2022) Staying Online: How to Navigate Digital Higher Education New York/London: Routledge, 180 pp
This book was published on September 7, 2021, and...
Decision-making in uncertain times: what recent research into online learning indicates
CDLRA Conversations: Decision-Making in Uncertain Times, September 6, 2021
The CDLRA (Canadian Digital Learning Research Association) is in the process of analysing the results from...
Research showing that virtual learning is less effective than classroom teaching – right?
Cellini, R. S. (2021) How does virtual learning impact students in higher education? Brown Center Chalkboard, Brookings, August 13
Summary of results
This blog post is...
Emergency online learning and inequity: developed countries
I have come across a number of articles (see for instance Brown and Salmi, 2020), and received several e-mails, pointing out that a sudden...
What should we be doing about online learning when social distancing ends?
Transitioning from panic to control
Planning is a bit of a luxury in a crisis. You do triage until you can get back to normal....
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....
Learning Analytics and ‘Learning Design’
The latest edition of the journal 'Distance Education' is focused on the use of learning analytics:
the aim of this special themed issue...is to foster...
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...
Rethinking the purpose of online learning: 3. Supporting disadvantaged learners
This is the third post in a series on rethinking the purpose of online learning. In the first post, I discussed Ontario's strategy of...
Learning analytics, student satisfaction, and student performance at the UK Open University
Rienties, B. and Toetenel, L. (2016) The impact of learning design on student behaviour, satisfaction and performance: A cross-institutional comparison across 151 modules, Computers in...