A full day of experiential learning in action
On Wednesday, February 17, the Chang School of Continuing Studies, Ryerson University, Toronto, put on an impressive one day conference, called ChangSchoolTalks, focused on...
Webinar recording: How open education will revolutionize higher education
Last Tuesday I did a Contact North webinar on the above topic. This was the last of five webinars based on my book, Teaching...
CAUCE-CNIE conference, 2016: Education 3.0
What: TARGET: EDUCATION 3.0, Possibilities at The Nexus of Pedagogy, Technology and Access
Creative pedagogy coupled with openly shared digital resources are inspiring educators to explore...
EDEN conference 2016
What: 'Re-Imagining Learning Environments'.
We are set a challenge to really understand our learning environments. To create and invent responses that are possibly not even...
A Happy Online Learning New Year for 2016
I wish all the readers of this blog a wonderful New Year. May your online courses be innovative, fun and highly effective in developing...
That was the year that was: what I did in 2015
No, I didn't die and get a Viking funeral at sea from my grandchildren, as did Billy Connelly in the wonderfully funny movie "What...
Innovation in online teaching in a Mexican university
The University of Guadalajara
I spent last week in and around Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco in Mexico. The Universidad de Guadalajara, whose origins go...
Update on British Columbia’s open textbook project
BCcampus has just announced that as of October 30, 2015, it has now made available 23 new 'Common Core' open textbooks for the Province of B.C.’s...
Recording of webinar on choosing modes of delivery
This morning I gave my third webinar in the Contact North series based on my online, open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age. There were...
Another perspective on the personalisation of learning online
I gave a keynote presentation last week at a large educational conference in the Netherlands, ‘Dé Onderwijsdagen’ (Education Days). I was asked to talk about the...