A review of higher education in 2025: a personal view
I thought I would try to capture what I see as the three major developments in higher education during 2025, at least from a...
A review of Higher Education in 2025: Chat-GPT’s response: Version 2
I published my own review of higher education here: https://www.tonybates.ca/2025/12/27/a-review-of-higher-education-in-2025/.
I messed up my initial Chat-GPT response, running it on the Chat-GPT tool on my...
A United Nations online university for the poorest countries in the world: dream or...
Reference:
United Nations (2025): 'Online university or other equivalent platform to support university-level science, technology, engineering and mathematics education in the least developed countries' New...
Book Review: Mega-Universities and Opening Education by Design
Nichols, M. (ed.) 2025 Mega-Universities and Opening Education by Design ICDE, Oslo, Norway
Preliminaries
I haven't been posting much recently, reflecting my fully retired status. However,...
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...
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 Review of Contact North’s AI Trades Explorer Pro
AI Trades Explorer Pro
I am in the process of evaluating a suite of AI tools from Contact North, Ontario, for students, instructors and administrators.
Contact...
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....
A personal history: 27. Working and playing in Mexico
I am writing an autobiography, mainly for my family, but it does cover some key moments in the development of open and online learning....
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...