A MOOC platform open to all?
Empson, R. (2013) edX Merges With Stanford’s Class2Go To Build An Open-Source Online Learning Platform Tech Crunch, April 3
Empson, R. (2012) Class2Go: Stanford’s New...
No. 8 aha moment: web 2.0 will change everything in online learning
This is the ninth (and last) in a series of posts about the most seminal ‘discoveries’ in my researching and working in educational technology,...
Special edition of Open Praxis: Openness in Higher Education
Visualisation of the History of Openness in Education © Peters and Deimann, 2013
Openness in Higher Education (2103) Open Praxis, Vol. 5, No. 1
What is Open...
An archive of alI I know about online learning
At the recent COHERE conference I delivered two keynotes:
Meeting the challenge of technology: are we failing as managers?
Designing university teaching to meet the needs...
Research and development in online learning from the Open University of Catalonia
Two weeks ago I visited two open universities (the UK OU and the Open University of Catalonia) and a research lab of the Institute...
Is prior learning assessment coming of age?
Fain, P. (2012) New momentum of an old idea Inside Higher Education, November 12
This excellent article discusses new developments in prior learning assessment: 'The...
COHERE conference on blended learning
I was privileged to be the key speaker at a conference organized by Canada's Collaboration for Online Higher Education and Research (COHERE) and the...
Innovation in teaching in Ontario universities
Council of Ontario Universities (2012) Beyond the sage on the stage: innovative and effective teaching and learning in Ontario universities Toronto ON: COU
This document...
What’s right and what’s wrong about Coursera-style MOOCs
TED Talks: Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education
Daphne Koller, one of the two founders of Coursera, describes some of the key features...
Nine steps to quality online learning: Step 7: Design course structure and learning activities
In this post the importance of providing students with a structure for learning online and setting appropriate learning activities is discussed. Indeed, I will...