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A personal history: 22. Innovating in distance education at the Open University of Portugal...

Summer is getting more dangerous in Canada as forest fires destroy the lovely town of Jasper, Alberta, and the surrounding national park. Let's hope...

A personal history: 21. Open and distance learning in Japan and South Korea

Enjoying summer I hope you are all having a well-earned break. Here in Vancouver we are enjoying a wonderful summer. I hope you are finding...

A global perspective on digitalization in higher education

Vol. 16, No.2 of the Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education (JCIHE) explores digitalization in the COVID and post-COVID era in 13 countries...

Four questions about the newly proposed Open European University

On the 28 June (2024) a proposal for an Open European University that is "student-centred, inclusive, digital and green" has been supported by the...

Are our higher education systems about to collapse from within?

Dalhousie University's Faculty of Computer Science uses Daedalus software to track students' learning objectives across and between courses,enabling the measurement of the progression of...

Book review: ‘Creating the University of the Future’ by Ehlers and Eigbrecht (eds.)

Ehlers, U-D. and Eigbrecht, L. (eds) Creating the University of the Future A Global View on Future Skills and Future Higher Education Springer VS...

Which institution is the world leader in digital and distance education?

  I have just returned from Monterrey in Mexico. I had been invited to join Tec de Monterrey’s celebration of 35 years of innovation in...

A personal history: 20. Identifying best practices for ed tech faculty development

This will be my last post for three weeks as I am taking a vacation, back at the beginning of June. I am writing an...

A personal history: 18. Developing the first online programs at UBC – and in...

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: 16. NAFTA, videoconferencing, and getting lost in Texas

I am writing an autobiography, mainly for my family, but it does cover some key moments in the development of open and online learning....