OECD report on the state of school education one year into the pandemic
OECD (2021) The state of school education: one year into the Covid pandemic Paris, France: OECD, pp. 50
The crisis has revealed the enormous...
A self-paced online course for school (k-12) teachers about teaching online
Who created the course?
BlendEd is a teacher-organised program that offers free professional development and resources for teachers to support blended learning pedagogy. Based in...
Resources to support special education students studying online
Continuing my theme of inequity arising from the switch from in-person to emergency remote learning, one group of children/students particularly affected are those with...
A directory of 2,000+ open textbooks
BCcampus has just announced that it has added its own collection of open textbooks to the Pressbooks Directory.
This directory provides an index of thousands...
Five free keynotes on online learning for streaming into virtual conferences
Sleepless nights and global learning
I received many requests last year to deliver keynotes into virtual conferences. These requests came from all around the world....
Recordings of Contact North/ATD’s Learning and Technology Conference now available
The conference
I'm still catching up on all the posts I meant to write during 2020 but have been too busy to do.
Contact North and...
Why Maryam Tsegaye’s prizewinning video is so important for online learning: your challenge
In case you missed the news item in early December, Maryam Tsegaye, a 17 year old from Fort McMurray, Alberta, won the 2020 Breakthrough...
Why Maryam Tsegaye’s prizewinning video is so important for online learning: my 12 reasons
The main reason this video is so important for online learning is that Maryam demonstrates so well many of the educational affordances of video,...
How a small university successfully pivoted online
The challenge
Algoma University is a small university (about 2,000 students) based in Sault Ste. Marie in northern Ontario, but with satellite campuses in Brampton...
The Learning and Training Conference December 8-9
Just a reminder that the Learning and Training Conference 2020 is still accepting registrations (click on the above image for more details).
Although, together with...