Why Maryam Tsegaye’s prizewinning video is so important for online learning: my 12 reasons
The main reason this video is so important for online learning is that Maryam demonstrates so well many of the educational affordances of video,...
The Learning and Training Conference December 8-9
Just a reminder that the Learning and Training Conference 2020 is still accepting registrations (click on the above image for more details).
Although, together with...
Why sex is more fun than swotting: further discussion on asynchronous vs synchronous learning
Binary thinking
There are two kinds of people: those who divide people into two groups; and those who don't. Both humans and computers seem more...
Is this the future of online learning?
Rosen, K. (2020) 2020: Lost Year of Schooling or Year One in a New Era of Education? Attention FWD, November 12
I found this an...
Post-Pandemic Lesson 7. More attention is being paid to online access and equity
This is the seventh of 10 Lessons from a Post-Pandemic World. For the other nine, click here.
“Every institution needs a strategy to support students...
Post-Pandemic Lesson 5. COVID-19 resulted in innovative teaching, but will it stick?
This is the fifth of 10 Lessons from a Post-Pandemic World. For the other nine, click here.
“…we need to take a more holistic approach,...
10 Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World from Covid-19 for Canadian universities and colleges
2020: Resilience and adaptability
“Canada responded amazingly well to the challenge of adapting to an existential threat to its post-secondary education system. The system...
Another survey of student responses to emergency remote learning
Wise, A. F. & Bergner, Y. (2020) College in the Time of Corona: Spring 2020 Student Survey New York, NY: NYU-LEARN.
This is another 'quick-and-dirty' survey...
Arizona State to offer a VR experience for Introductory Biology
Schaffhauser, D. (2020) Arizona State Partnership to Embed VR into Intro Biology Courses, Campus Technology, 7 October
Here is another application of VR to add...
Network security, international students and online learning
Lohrmann, D. (2020) Online learning still struggles - especially with security, government technology, September 20
Eckhart, B. (2020) To use or not to use virtual...