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...
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...
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....
A personal history: 7. Distance education in Canada in 1982
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...
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...
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...
Celebrating World Access to Higher Education Day: a long way to go
Yesterday was World Access to Higher Education Day. (I wanted to do this post yesterday, but couldn't, for personal reasons.) World Access to Higher...
British Columbia drafts a digital learning strategy for its post-secondary education sector
What is the intent?
On June 8, 2022, the Digital Learning Advisory Committee (convened by the British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training)...












