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Recent Posts:
- Discussing design models for hybrid/blended learning and the impact on the campus
- Can you teach lab science via remote labs?
- Queen’s University’s report on online learning
- Conference: International Perspectives on Technology-enhanced Learning
- Sommet de l’iPad en éducation
- A MOOC platform open to all?
- Innovative online bachelor’s degree from University of Washington
- A bill of rights for online learners?
- No. 8 aha moment: web 2.0 will change everything in online learning
- No. 7 aha moment: strategy matters in online learning
- UBC is going big with online and flexible learning
- No. 6 aha moment: the convergence of online learning (from the periphery to the core)
- IRRODL, Vol. 14, No. 1 now available
- Book review: OERs and Change in Higher Education: Reflections from Practice
- Course design and materials development guide for open learning
- Discussing drop-out rates in MOOCs
- LINQ conference on learning innovations and learning quality, Rome
- Online Educa Berlin 2013: Call for Proposals
- Call for visionary papers on the future of open education
- Throttling access to online learning
- Rethinking online learning in a hybrid world
- MOOCs forcing traditional academics to re-think their teaching
- Further developments in competency-based learning
- Bahrain conference on quality of e-learning
- Government cuts affect U.S. universities’ ‘world reputation’
- No. 5 aha moment: the Web as a universal standard
- Athabasca University’s President to stand down – but not soon
- New journal: INNOQUAL
- Who benefits from online learning?
- What’s going on at Athabasca University?
- Briefing on MOOCs for the Board of Governors
- No. 4 aha moment: Computers for communication, not as teaching machines
- North Korea launches two MOOCs
- Harvard’s current thinking on MOOCs
- MIT’s LINC 2013 conference
- No. 3 aha moment: asynchronous is (generally) better than synchronous teaching
- Who is giving credit for MOOCs?
- California buzzing with online learning
- Keeping up with MOOC developments
- When MOOCs crash and burn
- The danger of cloud based LMSs
- UBC offering four MOOCs this year
- No. 2 aha moment: God helps those that help themselves
- Africa is the world’s fastest developing e-learning market
- Another way to rank universities?
- Desire2Learn acquires Degree Compass
- No. 1 aha moment: media are different
- Most U.S. higher education students are also working
- My seven ‘a-ha’ moments in the history of educational technology
- Special edition of Open Praxis: Openness in Higher Education
- Exploiting the affordances of the iPad at Lynn University
- Online learning set to expand and become a core function in Ontario’s universities and colleges
- Measuring the growth of online learning: the Babson College 2012 survey
- Online learning in California generates controversy
- EDEN annual conference 2013
- Webinaire pour des concepteurs et des conceptrices pédagogiques: 23 janvier
- Webinar for instructional designers: January 23
- Grants for research on blended learning – from a lecture capture company
- Movers and shakers in corporate e-learning
- Outlook for online learning in 2013: online learning comes of age
- Why predicting online learning developments is risky but necessary
- The role of information sciences in online learning: a review of IRRODL, Vol. 13, No. 5
- Happy New Year and an apology
- The University of Western Sydney goes for blended learning – big time!
- Spanish version of: What’s right and what’s wrong with Coursera-style MOOCs
- Important developments in online learning in India in 2012
- Call for papers on blended and online learning: Canadian Journal of Higher Education
- No digital strategy for Canada
- Full report on the Open University of Catalonia now available
- Distance Education journal: November 2012 edition
- Online learning in 2012: a retrospective
- Sir John crosses to the dark side? Public universities and outsourcing online learning
- Serving remote and rural communities: lessons from 25 years of Contact North
- Webinar on the results from the VISCED project
- An archive of alI I know about online learning
- Research and development in online learning from the Open University of Catalonia
- European open universities feeling the stress of austerity
- Massive growth of online learning in Asia
- Tools to prevent online cheating
- U.S. ‘quality’ consortium to offer online credit courses
- Plan to assess credit value of MOOCs
- Designing online learning in a volatile world
- A brief history of online learning
- Is prior learning assessment coming of age?
- Update on investments in online learning: Desire2Learn gets $80 million
- Emerging business models for MOOCs
- 25th ICDE world conference to be held in China in 2013
- Maclean’s 2013 rankings of Canadian Universities: a critique
- Online Educa Berlin 2012 conference approaching
- Questions answered about British Columbia’s digital open textbook plan
- Does the U.S. accreditation system discriminate against online learning?
- The money pours in to fund online learning start-ups – while the public system starves
- MOOCs move into credit-based higher education
- Are we right to fear computers in education – or in life?
- Call for papers on research into blended and online learning
- COHERE conference on blended learning
- Why selective universities often struggle with online learning: the University of California example
- Are public universities and colleges the ‘sleeping giants’ of online learning?
- October Webinars from the Canadian Association of Instructional Designers (English and French)
- Daniel’s comprehensive review of MOOC developments
Recent Comments
R on What’s right and what’s wrong about Coursera-style MOOCs
What a bunch of cry babies. Hello free education, material, quizzes peer grading. Its not easy to personalize. You must...worried wart on What’s going on at Athabasca University?
I am a bit worried as a distance student in Toronto. I am completing courses towards the CMA designation. I...formación online on Una mirada personal sobre el uso de tecnologías digitales en la formación de docentes en los INFDs de Argentina.
Muy interesante gracias por compartirlo.Tony Bates on Discussing design models for hybrid/blended learning and the impact on the campus
Very nice story, Howard. Yes, I guess that sums up my law of equal substitution - it all depends on the...Howard Davis on Discussing design models for hybrid/blended learning and the impact on the campus
Hi Tony, not to muddle your observation about "high/low" emotional meetings since I agree with it, but I have direct...Tony Bates on Discussing design models for hybrid/blended learning and the impact on the campus
Good comments, Denise. I agree: I think 'non-academic' or non-content issues, such as availability of support, cost, student needs, and methods...Tony Bates on Discussing design models for hybrid/blended learning and the impact on the campus
Thanks for this comment, Howard. Your 'flipped' question is an interesting one. I think at an exploratory stage, for brainstorming, etc.,...Math Calculus on e-learning outlook for 2012: will it be a rough ride?
I think it will not be tough as long as the educators are going to do their best