Interactivity and the choice of media
I hope you had a good holiday break. This post from my draft for my open textbook, 'Teaching in a Digital Age,' looks at...
Choosing design models for a digital age
Oh, dear, it appears that I missed out in posting the conclusion to my Chapter 6, on Models for Designing Teaching and Learning for my...
Educational technology 30 years on: why hasn’t education changed much?
Bates, A.W. (ed.) (1984) The Role of Technology in Distance Education London/New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis
For some inexplicable reason, Routledge, of the publishing group Taylor...
Why MOOCs are only part of the answer for higher education
OK, except for the next post, which will be a list of publications on MOOCs for graduate students studying the topic, and a scenario for...
EDEN research papers: OERs (inc. MOOCs), quality/assessment, social media, analytics and research methods
EDEN has now published a second report on my review of papers submitted to the EDEN research workshop in Oxford a couple of weeks ago....
Why the fuss about MOOCs? Political, social and economic drivers
The end of MOOCs
This is the last part of my chapter on MOOCs for my online open textbook, Teaching in a Digital Age. In...
A New Zealand analysis of MOOCs
Shrivastava, A. and Guiney, P. (2014) Technological Development and Tertiary Education Delivery Models: The Arrival of MOOCs Wellington NZ: Tertiary Education Commission/Te Amorangi Mātauranga Matua
Why this...
The dissemination of research in online learning: a lesson from the EDEN Research Workshop
The EDEN Research Workshop
I'm afraid I have sadly neglected my blog over the last two weeks, as I was heavily engaged as the rapporteur...
Review of ‘Online Distance Education: Towards a Research Agenda.’
Zawacki-Richter, O. and Anderson, T. (eds.) (2014) Online Distance Education: Towards a Research Agenda Athabasca AB: AU Press, pp. 508
It is somewhat daunting to review...
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...