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Woolf University: the Airbnb of higher education or a sheep in wolf’s clothing?

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Broggi, J.D. et al. (2018) Building the first blockchain university, Oxford UK, April 3 You are going to hear a lot about Woolf University over...

Some very good news for Athabasca University (and its students)

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Graney, J. (2018) Athabasca University gets $4.9 million grant to upgrade outdated IT Edmonton Journal, June 8 One year on from the delivery of the...

Free online courses on English for Syrian refugees

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FutureLearn (2018) New free online courses launched to help Syrian refugees continue their education FE News.co.uk, June 8 Kings College, the University of London, has...

A new survey of online learning in Canadian universities and colleges for 2018

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The News Following the success of the 2017 national survey of online learning in Canadian post-secondary education, an invitation to participate in the 2018 version...

How serious should we be about serious games in online learning?

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In the 2017 national survey of online learning in post-secondary education, and indeed in the Pockets of Innovation project, serious games were hardly mentioned...

Active learning at the Royal Military College of Canada

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The RMC Following my trip to the UK Open University, I visited the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, where I was a keynote speaker...

Online learning and disruptive change at the UK Open University

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Sturm und Strang I've was in England last week,  attending the 7th eSTEeM conference at the Open University as the opening keynote speaker, only my...

Our responsibility in protecting institutional, student and personal data in online learning

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WCET (2018) Data Protection and Privacy Boulder CO: WCET United States Attorney's Office (2018) Nine Iranians Charged With Conducting Massive Cyber Theft Campaign On Behalf Of...

Web discussion on the future of the distance teaching university

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If you have an hour to spare and are interested in this topic, you can access a video of this webinar organized on March...

Videos from three ‘inspiring’ online leaders

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Drexel University Online as part of its excellent Virtually Inspired blog has posted three videos of  'thought leaders' in online learning. You can find...