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...
Submitting a doctoral thesis on online learning? Some things to keep in mind
Old people often complain that the world is going to hell in a hand-basket, that standards are falling, and it used to be better...
Conference: 8th EDEN Research Workshop on research in online learning and distance education
What: Challenges for research into Open & Distance Learning: Doing Things Better: Doing Better Things
'The focus of the event is on quality research discussed in...
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...
A balanced research report on the hopes and realities of MOOCs
Hollands, F. and Tirthali, D. (2014) MOOCs: Expectations and Reality New York: Columbia University Teachers' College, Center for Benefit-Cost Studies of Education, 211 pp
We...
Does distance education socialize students? A study from Québec
Loisier, J. (2014) Socialisation des Etudiants en FAD au Canada Francophone Montréal QC: REFAD
REFAD (the Canadian francophone distance education network) has published a very...
Research from the Michigan Virtual University on a connectivist MOOC
Ferdig, R. et al. (2014) Findings and reflections from the 'K-12 Teaching in the 21st Century' MOOC Lansing MI: Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute
We...
EDEN research workshop on open and distance learning
What: Challenges for research into Open & Distance Learning: Doing Things Better: Doing Better Things
EDENRW8 is very focussed on you the researcher and what you can...
Thinking about the design of the ‘flipped’ classroom
Barnett, P. (2014) Let's scramble, not flip, the classroom, Inside Higher Education, February 14
University of Washington (undated) Flipping the classroom, Seattle: University of Washington...
How problem-based learning can help develop innovation skills
Hoidn, S. and Kärkkäinen, K. (2014) Promoting Skills for Innovation in Higher Education A Literature Review on the Effectiveness of Problem-based Learning and of Teaching Behaviours...