Saturday, February 22, 2025
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2. Emergency online learning and inequity: developing countries

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One term, many contexts If I was uncomfortable writing my previous post, I am even more uncomfortable about writing this one. 'Developing countries' is not...

Emergency online learning and inequity: developed countries

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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...

Corona-virus and online learning in k-12 schools: my unadvice + excellent advice from elsewhere

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I've not been blogging much because I've been a bit overwhelmed with work for obvious reasons the last month or so. However, I see...

Second edition of Teaching in a Digital Age now published

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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

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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...

(Almost) free books on online learning

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I did a big clear-out over the holiday period and found a whole batch of brand new printed copies of three of my books....

Another perspective on AI in higher education

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Klutka, J. et al. (2018) Artificial Intelligence in Higher Education: Current Uses and Future Applications Louisville Ky: Learning House This report is by Learning House,...

Some thoughts on scaling online and digital learning

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Chatlani, S. (2018) How to effectively scale a digital learning model, Education Dive, accessed February 13 Bates, A. and Sangra, A. (2011) Managing Technology in Higher...

More advice to students thinking of studying online

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One of my most popular blog posts is A student guide to studying online. However, it was written five years ago, so I have...

Initiating instructors to online learning: 10 fundamentals

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Click to download the pdf What? Not ANOTHER book from me? Well, no, not quite. 'Teaching in a Digital Age' has been a great success but...