Book review: Handbook of Open Universities Around the World
Mishra, S. and Panda, S. (eds.) (2025) Handbook of Open Universities Around the World New York: Routledge, 692 pp.
Who are the authors?
Sanjaya Mishra is...
A personal history: 31 – Learning Catalan – and about Catalunya
I am writing an autobiography, mainly for my family, but it does cover some key moments in the development of open and online learning....
Some thoughts on the implications of AI for teaching and learning in higher education
What a co-incidence!
A few months ago, I wrote a series of blog posts on the crisis in higher education, arguing that it had become...
A personal history: 29. Strategic planning for e-learning: a personal case-study
I am writing an autobiography, mainly for my family, but it does cover some key moments in the development of open and online learning....
A personal history: 28. Croatia and Chile
I've been a bad blogger. It's over a month since my last post. Put it down to being fully retired and having other interests....
The crisis in higher education: 8. Thinking outside the box
Overview
I have argued that public higher education institutions can no longer depend on ever increasing revenues for survival. In an era of mass higher...
The crisis in universities and colleges: 6: too much (useless) research
Research: more is not better
One way in which the costs of post-secondary education could be significantly reduced without reducing the quality of undergraduates is...
Universities and Colleges in Peril: 4. Reducing costs
The need to reduce costs
In three previous posts, I tried to make the case that public universities and colleges were losing the support and...
Universities and Colleges in Peril
An unsustainable higher education system
In recent months, we have seen an existential threat arising for the future of post-secondary education in many countries. Here...
That was the year 2024, that was
Sorry!
First, an apology -actually, two.
First, I haven't posted in over a month, the main reason being I have been quite ill with gastro-entiritis, a...