Chapter 8.7.b Virtual and augmented reality
Screen shots from UBC's Soil Sciences TopAGraphy mobile app
I am in the process of finalising a second edition of Teaching in a Digital Age....
Serious games and gamification
Serious game design methodology, from Digital Education Strategies, Ryerson University, 2018
Changes to Teaching in a Digital Age
I am in the process of finalising a...
Working on the second edition of Teaching in a Digital Age: some lessons learned...
I have been very quiet with my blog, partly due to having fun in the summer, but also because I am in the process...
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...
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...
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...
The Open University is 50 years old today
BBC (2019) Open University: Photos Issued to Mark 50th Anniversary, April 17
My personal story
The British Open University received its charter on April 23, 1969....
Should university and college instructors ban cell phones in their classes?
The Ontario government, under the leadership of its premier Doug Ford (a badly cloned Donald Trump), has announced it will ban cellphone use during...
Is the current use of video a step backwards in online learning?
The use of video
There is evidence from the two national surveys of online learning in Canadian post-secondary education that video is increasingly being used...
Why are there few online programs in Canada’s Far North?
What is north in Canada?
In a country as vast as Canada, 'north' is always relative. Sudbury (46º N) is considered to be in Northern...