Workshop on re-designing large courses
Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA) and the National Center for Academic Transformation (NCAT) are co-sponsoring Getting Started on Course Redesign, a seminar for those...
Should Apple pander to (higher) education?
Joshua Kim in his always interesting blog for Inside Higher Education wrote:
We'd be overjoyed If Apple created teaching apps, or even a full online...
Blackboard Collaborate 11: a step forward in synchronous learning (or plus ça change….)
Audio-graphics, 1983
I first got involved in audio-graphics in 1980 (yes, that's right, 31 years ago - I'm very old, and so is audio-conferencing). Paul...
Journal: Distance Education, Vol. 32, No. 1 now available
Is online distance education about to collapse like the Tower of Babel? So asks Jon Baggaley
Distance Education, Vol. 32, No. 1, May 2011
The academic...
IRRODL June 2011
For the very few readers of this site who are not already subscribers, the latest edition of the International Review of Research in Open...
Workshop on best practices in blended course design
Academic Impressions is organizing a workshop on blended course design in San Diego, July 25 -27, 2011.
Discussion topics will include:
Developing instructional designs that are...
The digital future of higher education, on video
Videos have now been posted of presentations at two conferences in British Columbia, both looking at the future of digital learning.
The digital future of...
What the security services know about e-learning
One of the great things about e-learning is that it pops up in the most unexpected of places. This month's New security learning, Issue, No....
Instructional design: the times they are a’changing
Last week I attended a very interesting workshop, called Just ID, at the University of British Columbia. The workshop was organized with the support of...
Book: Managing Technology in Higher Education now available
Bates, A. and Sangrà, A. (2011) Managing Technology in Higher Education: Strategies for Transforming Teaching and Learning San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/John Wiley & Co.
Now out!...