How to remove the barriers to innovation in higher education and online learning
Morriss-Olson, M. (2017) Why is it so difficult to nurture innovation and academic entrepreneurship at a college or university? Academic Impressions, March 9
Barriers to...
Discussing the future of higher education in the holiday season
Mrig, A. and Sanaghan, P. (2019) The Future of Education: Will Higher Education Seize the Future or Fall Victim to IT? Academic Impressions
I've been...
Regional report on online learning in the provinces of Atlantic Canada
Even though institutions are currently in the process of collecting and returning data for the 2019 survey of online learning in Canadian post-secondary institutions,...
Rethinking the purpose of online learning: 4. Developing skills for a digital society
This series is turning out to be longer than I initially anticipated. In the first three posts I looked at the following possible reasons...
Rethinking the purpose of online learning: 3. Supporting disadvantaged learners
This is the third post in a series on rethinking the purpose of online learning. In the first post, I discussed Ontario's strategy of...
Rethinking the purpose of online learning: 2. Using online learning to reduce the costs...
This is the second of three posts examining the purpose of online and digital learning. In the first post I looked at the government...
Rethinking the purpose of online learning: 1. Ontario’s k-12 initiative
What is the purpose of online learning?
Online learning has been hitting the headlines recently:
the Ontario government requiring every high school student to take...
The Open University is 50 years old today
BBC (2019) Open University: Photos Issued to Mark 50th Anniversary, April 17
My personal story
The British Open University received its charter on April 23, 1969....
Who dunnit? Identifying the major online providers in Canadian post-secondary education
The story so far
In earlier posts about the Canadian Digital Learning Research Association's latest 2018 survey of online learning in Canadian post-secondary institutions, I...
First Nations art and dance, a new campus, and moving to sustainable open education:...
I apologise for the lack of blog posts these last couple of months. I have been busy analysing and writing up data on course...