Moving beyond technology in designing online learning
This next post in my chapter on 'Understanding Technology in Education' for my book, Teaching in a Digital Age' is a long one, but...
A new approach to online lab classes from the University of South Carolina
Adams, S. and Duvall, B. (2014) Designing, building and supporting online lab courses, University Business, February 4
This article is a summary of a presentation...
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. 1 aha moment: media are different
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In a previous post, I listed the seven 'aha' moments that have been the most seminal 'discoveries' in my researching and...
Online Learning and Personal Change: the Movie
Vancouver Community College organized a stimulating faculty development workshop in April called 'Technology Trends and the Courage to Adapt', about the challenge technology presents...
Book review: Clark Quinn’s ‘The Mobile Academy’
Quinn, C. (2012) The Mobile Academy: mLearning for Higher Education San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/John Wiley, 120 pp
The author points out that 90% of the world's...
Marshall McLuhan and his relevance to teaching with technology
Today (July 21) is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marshall McLuhan. Although I was not consciously aware of it at the time,...
NMC Horizon Report from down under
New Media Consortium (2010) 2010 Horizon Report - Australia-New Zealand Edition Austin TX: New Media Consortium
The NMC brings out its main projections for the...
Innovative e-learning in the Vancouver area
I worry about the often negative tone of many of my posts. It was therefore a great pleasure to attend the joint Justice Institute...
Preliminary book review: An Introduction to Distance Education
Cleveland-Innes, M. and Garrison, R. (eds.) 2010 An Introduction to Distance Education: Understanding Teaching and Learning in a New Era New York/Abingdon UK: Routledge
This...