Free online courses on English for Syrian refugees
FutureLearn (2018) New free online courses launched to help Syrian refugees continue their education FE News.co.uk, June 8
Kings College, the University of London, has...
How serious should we be about serious games in online learning?
In the 2017 national survey of online learning in post-secondary education, and indeed in the Pockets of Innovation project, serious games were hardly mentioned...
Active learning at the Royal Military College of Canada
The RMC
Following my trip to the UK Open University, I visited the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, where I was a keynote speaker...
Open and remote labs from the UK Open University
On my recent visit to the UK Open University, I had the privilege of a guided tour of the Open University's remote labs. These...
Learning analytics, student satisfaction, and student performance at the UK Open University
Rienties, B. and Toetenel, L. (2016) The impact of learning design on student behaviour, satisfaction and performance: A cross-institutional comparison across 151 modules, Computers in...
Online learning and disruptive change at the UK Open University
Sturm und Strang
I've was in England last week, attending the 7th eSTEeM conference at the Open University as the opening keynote speaker, only my...
‘Making Digital Learning Work’: why faculty and program directors must change their approach
Bailey, A. et al (2018) Making Digital Learning Work Boston MA:The Boston Consulting Group/Arizona State University
Getting blended learning wrong
I've been to several universities recently...
‘Humans Wanted’: online learning and skills development
Royal Bank of Canada (2018) Humans Wanted Toronto ON: Royal Bank of Canada
I have at last got hold of a full copy of this...
Stanford University to be fully online by 2025?
Today I have received a tip from a close colleague that Stanford University is planning to build a partnership with Alphabet Inc., the owner...
How to deal with online learning ‘deniers’ in your institution
Lieberman, M. (2018) Overcoming faculty resistance - or not? Inside Higher Education, March 14
I've been a bit slow on picking up on this (thanks...