Using learning analytics to predict mastery: a flawed concept?
I'm slogging my way through the special issue on learning analytics in Distance Education, a subscription-only journal, because what is happening in this field...
Learning analytics and gamification: a significant study
This is the third post reviewing articles in the journal Distance Education, Vol. 40, No.3, a special edition on learning analytics in distance education....
Second edition of Teaching in a Digital Age now published
The second edition of Teaching in a Digital Age is now available at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/teachinginadigitalagev2/
The first edition was published in 2015. The second edition is...
Chapter 8.7c Artificial intelligence
I am in the process of finalising a second edition of Teaching in a Digital Age. (For more on this, see Working on the second...
Some thoughts on the future of public higher education
One of the responses I had to my series on the coming crisis to post-secondary education in Canada was: 'Well, what do you think...
The Coming Crisis in Canadian Post-secondary Education: 3 – Some strategies for survival
The issue
I have argued in earlier posts that universities and colleges (everywhere, not just Canada) need to move more quickly into digital learning for...
The Coming Crisis in Canadian Post-secondary Education: 1 – External Developments
Where's the disruption?
I don't normally get excited about talk of digital technology disrupting higher education, especially when that talk originates from south of the...
Online and problem-based learning: the Danish experience
Aalborg University and digital learning
I have just completed a visit to my third Danish university (University of Copenhagen in 2004, Syddansk University in 2017,...
Rethinking the purpose of online learning: 4. Developing skills for a digital society
This series is turning out to be longer than I initially anticipated. In the first three posts I looked at the following possible reasons...
Should university and college instructors ban cell phones in their classes?
The Ontario government, under the leadership of its premier Doug Ford (a badly cloned Donald Trump), has announced it will ban cellphone use during...