Understanding microcredentials: a report from HEQCO
Pichette, J., Brumwell, S., Rizk, J., Han, S. (2021) Making Sense of Microcredentials. Toronto: Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario.
Back to blogging
It's now two...
Teaching large lecture classes online in the fall?
Getting ready for the fall
In many countries, including Canada, it is expected that most people will be vaccinated by September. Thus many students are...
Five free keynotes on online learning for streaming into virtual conferences
Sleepless nights and global learning
I received many requests last year to deliver keynotes into virtual conferences. These requests came from all around the world....
Online learning and (k-12) schools: do we need a different curriculum for online learning?
This is the third in a series of posts on online learning in the (k-12) school sector.
The first was What needs to be done...
How to address the skills agenda in higher education: a German perspective
Ehlers, U-D. (2020) Future Skills: the future of learning and higher education Karlsruhe, Germany: Herstellung und Verlag, pp. 311
What is this book about?
This free,...
Recordings of Contact North/ATD’s Learning and Technology Conference now available
The conference
I'm still catching up on all the posts I meant to write during 2020 but have been too busy to do.
Contact North and...
Free online modules for k-12 teachers on how to teach online
Following on from my post yesterday about the lack of training for k-12 teachers in how to teach online during the pandemic, I am...
Post-Pandemic Lesson 4. COVID-19 showed the need for more flexible assessment methods.
This is the fourth of 10 Lessons from a Post-Pandemic World. For the other nine, click here.
“...a reassessment of assessment itself is long overdue...
10 Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World from Covid-19 for Canadian universities and colleges
2020: Resilience and adaptability
“Canada responded amazingly well to the challenge of adapting to an existential threat to its post-secondary education system. The system...
The importance of ‘intangibles’ in teaching and learning
I'm going to raise a fundamental epistemological issue here about how we know things to be true. This starts off fairly abstractly but like...