Online learning in 2016: a personal review
Image: © Institute for Economics and Peace. Canada is ranked seventh most peaceful. We don't know where it ranks though in terms of online...
Learning analytics and learning design at the UK Open University
The Open University (2016) Developing learning design and analytics for student success, Connections, Vol. 21, No. 3
The latest edition of the Commonwealth of Learning's...
Towards an open pedagogy for online learning
The problems with OER
I was interviewed recently by a reporter doing an article on OER (open educational resources) and I found myself being much more...
Report on SFU’s experiences of teaching with technology
I always enjoy going to a university or college and seeing how they are using learning technologies. I am always a little surprised and...
What I learned at Drexel University in National Distance Learning Week
Fear and loathing in Philadelphia
On Tuesday and Wednesday last week, I found myself in Philadelphia on U.S. Presidential Election day, and even more importantly, the...
Scary tales of online learning and educational technology
The Educational Technology Users Group (ETUG) of British Columbia held an appropriately Halloween-themed get together today called 'The Little Workshop of Horrors' at which participants...
Acorns to oaks? British Columbia continues its progress with OERs
BCcampus (2016) Back to school buzz: 2 million in student savings BCcampus Newsletter, September 16
BCcampus (2016) BCcampus approved, Hewlett and AVED funded OER grants in...
ISBN and citation for ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’
ISBNs
I have now navigated Library and Archives Canada's system to get ISBNs (International Standard Book Numbers) issued for Teaching in a Digital Age and...
Online learning for beginners: 7. Why not just record my lectures?
This is the seventh in a series of a dozen blog posts aimed at those new to online learning or thinking of possibly doing it....
EDEN Research Workshop, October, 2016
What: Forging New Pathways of research and innovation in open and distance learning: reaching from the roots
The Ninth EDEN Research Workshop in Oldenburg, Germany,...