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...
‘Humans Wanted’: online learning and skills development
Royal Bank of Canada (2018) Humans Wanted Toronto ON: Royal Bank of Canada
I have at last got hold of a full copy of this...
Web discussion on the future of the distance teaching university
If you have an hour to spare and are interested in this topic, you can access a video of this webinar organized on March...
How can online learning help Canadian colleges meet the challenges ahead?
I was recently asked if I would answer a couple of questions from students in Royal Roads University's course 'Leveraging Technology in Higher Education'...
How to keep up with new technology in online learning
I was recently asked if I would answer a couple of questions from students in Royal Roads University's course 'Leveraging Technology in Higher Education'...
Scary tales of online learning and educational technology
The Educational Technology Users Group (ETUG) of British Columbia held an appropriately Halloween-themed get together today called 'The Little Workshop of Horrors' at which participants...
Demographics and online learning
Rai, S. (2016) How Millennial Moms Are Parenting Differently Than Their Parents Z Living Network, 7 March
Unauthored (2016) Survey Finds Millennial Parents Supportive Of...
A look at online learning and digital wisdom from Madeira
Madeira
Madeira is a Portuguese island in the Atlantic about 200 kilometres west of north-west Africa. I'd never been there before this year, but now it's twice in...
Technology, alienation and the role of education: an introduction
Is there a problem here?
I live a 30 minute drive from the U.S. border, and like many of my fellow Canadians (and many U.S....
Automation or empowerment: online learning at the crossroads
You are probably, like me, getting tired of the different predictions for 2016. So I’m not going to do my usual look forward for...