Choosing a ‘good’ post-secondary online learning program
I am constantly asked to recommend 'good' online learning programs. This is a difficult question to answer, as it’s impossible for any single person to...
Ensuring quality teaching in a digital age: key takeaways
I have now completed and published Chapter 11, 'Ensuring quality teaching in a digital age', for my online open textbook, Teaching in a Digital...
What do we mean by ‘open’ in education?
"I'm just a committed and even stubborn person who wants to see every child getting quality education"
Malala Yousafzai's Nobel Prize speech, 2014
This is the...
A ‘starter’ bibliography on MOOCs
For the increasing number of students doing Masters' dissertations or Ph.D's on MOOCs I have collected together for convenience all the references made in...
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....
The strengths and weaknesses of MOOCs: Part I
How many times has an author cried: 'Oh, God, I wish I'd never started on this!'? Well, I wanted to have a short section...
What students learned from an MIT physics MOOC
Colvin, K. et al. (2014) Learning an Introductory Physics MOOC: All Cohorts Learn Equally, Including On-Campus Class, IRRODL, Vol. 15, No. 4
Why this paper?
I...
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...
Opening up: chapter one of Teaching in a Digital Age
I've not been blogging much recently, because (a) I've been on holiday for a month in the Mediterranean and (b) I've been writing my...
The success or otherwise of online students in the California Community College system
Johnson, H. and Mejia, M. (2014) Online learning and student outcomes in California's community colleges San Francisco CA: Public Policy Institute of California, 20...