EDEN 2016: Re-imagining Learning Environments
The EDEN conference
I have just attended the annual conference of the European Distance and E-Learning Network in Budapest, Hungary.
EDEN is one of my favourite conferences...
An excellent guide to multimedia course design
Centre for Extended Learning (2016) How do we create useful online learning experiences? Waterloo ON: University of Waterloo
The University of Waterloo's Centre for Extended...
Culture and effective online learning environments
Figure A 1 from the original version of ‘Teaching at a Distance’
Over the last two months I have done a couple of workshops on...
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...
A full day of experiential learning in action
On Wednesday, February 17, the Chang School of Continuing Studies, Ryerson University, Toronto, put on an impressive one day conference, called ChangSchoolTalks, focused on...
Webinar recording: How open education will revolutionize higher education
Last Tuesday I did a Contact North webinar on the above topic. This was the last of five webinars based on my book, Teaching...
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...
That was the year, that was: main trends in 2015
Well, here we are at the end of another year. Doesn't time fly! So here is my look back on 2015. I'll do this...
Innovation in online teaching in a Mexican university
The University of Guadalajara
I spent last week in and around Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco in Mexico. The Universidad de Guadalajara, whose origins go...
Another perspective on the personalisation of learning online
I gave a keynote presentation last week at a large educational conference in the Netherlands, ‘Dé Onderwijsdagen’ (Education Days). I was asked to talk about the...