Are universities teaching the skills needed in a knowledge-based economy?
I've been on holiday the last two and a half weeks, but also doing some writing for my open textbook on teaching in a...
Producing ‘innovative’ graduates and how online learning can help
Avvisati, F., Jacotin, G., and Vincent-Lacrin, S. (2013) Educating Higher Education Students for Innovative Economies: What International Data Tells Us, Tuning Journal for Higher...
2020 Vision: Outlook for online learning in 2014 and way beyond
Taking the long view
Doug Saunders in the Globe and Mail on January 4 wrote an interesting piece on prediction, entitled: "Gadgets alone don't make...
Productivity and online learning redux
Summarizing the previous posts
In previous posts (see end of this post), I tried to identify a range of areas where online learning might enable...
Improving productivity in online learning: can we scale ‘the learning that matters most’?
The story so far
This is a continuation of the discussion on whether online learning can increase educational ‘productivity.’ Previous posts in this series include:
Technology,...
MOOCs, MIT and Magic
MOOC panel: Dan Hastings, Anant Agarwal, Tony Bates, Sanjay Sarma, John Daniel
In my previous post, there were two sessions at the LINC 2013 conference...
No. 6 aha moment: the convergence of online learning (from the periphery to the...
This is the seventh in a series of posts about the most seminal ‘discoveries’ in my researching and working in educational technology, where I...
An archive of alI I know about online learning
At the recent COHERE conference I delivered two keynotes:
Meeting the challenge of technology: are we failing as managers?
Designing university teaching to meet the needs...
Designing online learning in a volatile world
Adamson, C. (2012) Learning in a VUCA world, Online Educa Berlin News Portal, November 13
VUCA is a new term to me, although what it...
Nine steps to quality online learning: Step 6: Set appropriate learning goals
In this post I argue that you need to think about what kinds of goals could best be achieved in an online course, rather...