Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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A personal history: 5. India and educational satellite TV

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

Why Canada’s current policies towards international students are a form of colonialism

What am I claiming? This post has been brewing for some time, and has been prompted by the recent announcement that the Federal government is...

Day 3 at ICDE – and thoughts on the future of DE

  Yesterday was the third and final day of the ICDE conference. This post will focus solely on the last day's presentations. I will do...

Day 2 of the ICDE conference in Costa Rica

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This was, from my perspective, much better than the first day: two good keynotes and one session that was worth the whole trip. Keynotes I went...

Day 1 of the ICDE conference in Costa Rica

The ICDE conference opened today in San Jose, Costa Rica, celebrating the 85th anniversary of its founding. The reports on sessions below were chosen based...

Who’s attending the ICDE 2023 World Conference on distance education?

Here I am in Toronto, on my way to Costa Rica (no direct flight from Vancouver, which means a stop-over in Toronto) for the...

Faculty preferences for mode of delivery following the Covid-19 pandemic

Tyton Partners (2023) Time for class: bridging student and faculty perspectives on digital learning, Boston MA Muscanell, N. (2023) 2023 Faculty and Technology Report: A...
The Distributed University - Richard Heller

Book Review: Richard Heller’s ‘The Distributed University for Sustainable Higher Education’

Heller, R. (2022) The Distributed University for Sustainable Higher Education SpringerBriefs in Education: Singapore Good news: this is an open access book. The second good...
Western University campus, Ontario

Do we need a new type of Higher Education institution?

I want to ask the question: are our current institutional models – universities, polytechnics, colleges – fit for purpose in the 21st century, or...
Graphic of SAIDE's open learning principles

Organization, Leadership and Change in Open, Distance and Digital Education: book review, Part 1

Zawacki-Richter, O. and Jung, I. (2023) Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Learning Singapore: Springer Part IV of this open textbook is on Organization, Leadership and Change,...