Leadership in open and distance education universities
The conference
For 20 years, the Standing Committee of Presidents (SCOP) of the members of the International Council of Distance Education (ICDE) has provided a...
WCET’s WOW awards for innovative uses of educational technologies
The WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) has announced the recipients of the 2013 WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) award, a competition that recognizes innovative...
Education across space and time: Distance Education, Vol. 34, No.2
This special edition of the Australian-based Distance Education journal presents a selection of papers originally submitted to the Open and Distance Learning Association of...
How online content development and delivery could improve the productivity of post-secondary education
Content development at Laval UniversityThis is a continuation of the exploration of the potential for online learning to increase educational 'productivity.' Previous posts in...
Tom Carey’s reflections on the HEQCO report on online learning and productivity: 2 –...
Carey, T., & Trick, D. (2013). How Online Learning Affects Productivity, Cost and Quality in Higher Education: An Environmental Scan and Review of the...
What happened in online learning over the summer? – 2
This is the second summary post of some newsworthy items that happened over mainly July and August.
MOOCs
Peters, M. (2013) Massive Open Online Courses and Beyond:...
Commonwealth of Learning conference on open learning, December 2013
What:
The Commonwealth of Learning's Seventh Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning (PCF7) will address:"Open Learning for Development: Towards Empowerment and Transformation" through five themes:
"Girls’ and Women’s Education",
"Skills...
Innovation, quality and digital resources: the LINQ 2013 conference
No - it's not Anita Ekberg in front of the Trevi fountain - it's Rory McGreal!
The LINQ 2013 conference, held in May in Rome,...
CNIE conference on Leadership and Innovation in Learning
I was in Ottawa in early May also to give a keynote at the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education conference. I am ashamed...
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,...