Spotlight on online experiential learning at Ryerson University
A week or so ago, I had the opportunity to visit the Digital Education Strategies team at the G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing...
Book review: A History of the Open University
Weinbren, D. (2105) The Open University: A History Manchester: Manchester University Press/The Open University, 274 pp + notes, £18.99, C$31.61, US$22.30 (paperback edition)
Why you...
Book review: Teaching and Learning in Digital Worlds
Gisbert, T. and Bullen, M. (2015) Teaching and Learning in Digital Worlds: Strategies and Issues in Higher Education Tarragona Spain: Publicacions Universitat Rovira i...
Seeking the unique pedagogical characteristics of social media
Social media are still in a very volatile state of development, and many faculty worry about the negative aspects of students who are continually...
Seeking the unique pedagogical characteristics of computing
This is the fourth post on the unique characteristics of different media, for my open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age.
This was a fun one...
Are rich media better than single media in online learning?
First of all, a happy New Year to everyone from almost the last place on earth to come into 2015. This is a discussion...
Adapting student assessment to the needs of a digital age
The story so far
Chapter 5 of my open textbook, ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’ is about the design of teaching and learning, which I am...
Game-based and immersive courses in a community college system
Bradley, P. (2014) Getting in the game: Colorado colleges develop game-based, immersive courses Community College Weekly, March 3
The Colorado Community College System (CCCS) is...
Teaching practice in a virtual world
Ortega, S. (2014) UCF teaching technology spreads to 33 universities Central Florida Future, January 6
I haven't heard a lot in the last year about...
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,...