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...
Book review: Open and Distance Education Theory Revisited
Jung, I. (ed.) Open and Distance Education Theory Revisited Singapore: Springer, 122 pp, US$44.99 (ePub issue); US$29.95 per chapter
Why this book?
This book, edited by...
Back to the Future: open pedagogy, learning design, and ETUG’s 25th anniversary conference
Happy anniversary, ETUG!
Last week I spent two days at the British Columbia Educational Technology Users' Group conference at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops. ETUG was...
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: 2 – The Canadian context
This is the second in a series of posts on this topic. The first post looked at external developments that will influence Canadian post-secondary...
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...
What are the key online learning markets over the next few years?
Lomas, S. and Ashburn, E. (2019) The next wave of online education San Francisco CA: Entangled Solutions
Schroeder, R. (2019) Plotting the Future of Your...
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...