Discussing design models for hybrid/blended learning and the impact on the campus
A couple of weeks ago I had an interesting meeting with about 25 instructional designers from UBC, where we discussed design models for hybrid...
Can you teach lab science via remote labs?
Contact North (2013) The Colorado Community College System Sudbury ON: Contact North
Contact North has been developing a series of posts on institutions that are 'game-changers'...
A MOOC platform open to all?
Empson, R. (2013) edX Merges With Stanford’s Class2Go To Build An Open-Source Online Learning Platform Tech Crunch, April 3
Empson, R. (2012) Class2Go: Stanford’s New...
Innovative online bachelor’s degree from University of Washington
Long, K. (2013) UW to offer first all-online degree-completion program The Seattle Times, March 28
Although many universities offer online courses at the bachelor's level,...
No. 8 aha moment: web 2.0 will change everything in online learning
This is the ninth (and last) in a series of posts about the most seminal ‘discoveries’ in my researching and working in educational technology,...
No. 6 aha moment: the convergence of online learning (from the periphery to the...
This is the seventh in a series of posts about the most seminal ‘discoveries’ in my researching and working in educational technology, where I...
Course design and materials development guide for open learning
Drew, S. (2013) Course design and materials development guide Johannesburg South Africa: SAIDE
Saide (the South African Institute for Distance Education) has published an excellent...
MOOCs forcing traditional academics to re-think their teaching
Rivard, R. (2013) Learning how to teach, Inside Higher Education, March 5
This is perhaps the most encouraging item of news about MOOCs so far...
No. 5 aha moment: the Web as a universal standard
This is the sixth in a series of posts about the most seminal ‘discoveries’ in my researching and working in educational technology, where I...
No. 3 aha moment: asynchronous is (generally) better than synchronous teaching
In an earlier post, I listed the seven ‘aha’ moments that have been the most seminal ‘discoveries’ in my researching and working in educational...