Acorns to oaks? British Columbia continues its progress with OERs
BCcampus (2016) Back to school buzz: 2 million in student savings BCcampus Newsletter, September 16
BCcampus (2016) BCcampus approved, Hewlett and AVED funded OER grants in...
Online learning for beginners: 9. How can I do online learning well?
This is the ninth in a series of ten blog posts aimed at those new to online learning or thinking of possibly doing it. The previous...
ISBN and citation for ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’
ISBNs
I have now navigated Library and Archives Canada's system to get ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers) issued for Teaching in a Digital Age and...
Online learning for beginners: 4. ‘What kinds of online learning are there?’
This is the fourth of a series of a dozen blog posts aimed at those new to online learning or thinking of possibly doing...
Talking numbers about open publishing and online learning
Please forgive me here for a little self-indulgence. By sheer coincidence, two statistics converged yesterday.
2 million blog post hits
First, I passed the 2 million...
French version of ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’ now available
The French version of 'Teaching in a Digital Age', L'enseignement a l'ère numerique', is now available from here.
I am very grateful to Contact North|Contact Nord...
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...
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...
The future of learning content – and campus bookstores
Ellis, T. (2016) Developing a course content strategy University Business, February
This article has made me realise the still massive difference between what actually happens...
Automation or empowerment: online learning at the crossroads
You are probably, like me, getting tired of the different predictions for 2016. So I’m not going to do my usual look forward for...