MIT, learning technologies, and developing countries: lessons in technology transfer
This week I spent three days at the MIT LINC (Learning International Networks Consortium) conference in Boston/Cambridge, Massachusetts, with the theme: 'Realizing the Dream:...
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,...
No. 2 aha moment: God helps those that help themselves
In a previous post, I listed the seven ‘aha’ moments that have been the most seminal ‘discoveries’ in my researching and working in educational...
Online learning set to expand and become a core function in Ontario’s universities and...
Contact North (2013) An Overview of the Strategic Mandate Agreement Proposals Prepared by Ontario’s Public Colleges and Universities: Online Learning Set to Expand and...
Outlook for online learning in 2013: online learning comes of age
FunTab Class 9.1 Android ICS Tablet: will 2013 be the year of the tablet?
In a previous post, I talked about the difficulties in making...
The role of information sciences in online learning: a review of IRRODL, Vol. 13,...
An overview of the papers
IRRODL (the International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning) has once again produced a fascinating themed edition, this...
Important developments in online learning in India in 2012
In my e-Learning Outlook for 2012 published on January 2 in 2012 I wrote:
Watch India
.....there are several reasons behind this prediction:
the Indian government’s decision to subsidize...
Full report on the Open University of Catalonia now available
Contact North (2012) The Open University of Catalonia: Fully Online Multi-lingual Innovation-focused Accredited Sudbury ON: Contact North
In an earlier post I wrote about current research...
Online learning in 2012: a retrospective
Well, 2012 was certainly the year of the MOOC. Audrey Watters provides a comprehensive overview of what happened with MOOCs in 2012, so I...
Research and development in online learning from the Open University of Catalonia
Two weeks ago I visited two open universities (the UK OU and the Open University of Catalonia) and a research lab of the Institute...