Some comments on synchronous online learning technologies
Last week was a week of synchronous online sessions for me. I did ‘virtual’ keynotes into conferences in Tehran, Iran, and Beirut, the Lebanon, as well as a Contact North webinar. The presentations The...
View ArticleA review of AI and synchronous online learning in 2018
Although I’m trying to retire, or at least ease up a little, 2018 turned out to be a really busy work year for me. In the end, my various activities did allow me to get a pretty good view of what’s...
View ArticleSecond edition of Teaching in a Digital Age now published
The second edition of Teaching in a Digital Age is now available at https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/teachinginadigitalagev2/ The first edition was published in 2015. The second edition is an update on...
View ArticleFive webinar recordings on the myths and realities of online learning now...
About the webinars Contact North has now made publicly available recordings of the five webinars on the Myths, Realities, Opportunities and Challenges of Online Learning that I presented over March and...
View ArticleVideo of discussion of impact of Covid-19 on online learning
The MALAT program Royal Roads University runs an excellent Master of Arts in Learning and Technology (MALAT). This program is the first master of arts degree in Canada to go textbook-free. Students can...
View ArticleAnother 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 about U.S. university students’...
View ArticleWhy sex is more fun than swotting: further discussion on asynchronous vs...
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 comfortable with binary divisions: on or off, right or...
View ArticleRecordings of Contact North/ATD’s Learning and Technology Conference now...
The conference I’m still catching up on all the posts I meant to write during 2020 but have been too busy to do. Contact North and the Association for Talent and Development have now made available...
View ArticleFive free keynotes on online learning for streaming into virtual conferences
Sleepless nights and global learning I received many requests last year to deliver keynotes into virtual conferences. These requests came from all around the world. Unfortunately though (unlike...
View ArticleQuality and equity in digital learning: a policy brief from the Commonwealth...
Commonwealth of Learning (2021) Quality and equity in digital learning: a policy brief Burnaby BC: Commonwealth of Learning About the policy brief The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) is an...
View ArticleVirtualized or online learning? An explanation – and rationale – from Ryerson...
The Chang School (2021) What’s the difference between Online and Virtualized Learning? Toronto: Ryerson University, May 28. In an earlier post, The ‘not normal’ return to normal in September, I noted...
View ArticleWorking on a third edition of ‘Teaching in a Digital Age.’
I’ve now decided to start on a third edition of ‘Teaching in a Digital Age.’ I began work on the first edition in 2014 and completed in 2015. The second edition was started four years ago (2018) and...
View ArticleOnline learning, videoconferencing and energy consumption
Azimzadehirani, M. (2021) Is effective online learning bad for the environment? University Affairs, August 23 This interesting article is as much about whether or not students should turn off their...
View ArticleSome recent videos on the future of online learning
I’m listing here some of the recordings of recent presentations and webinars that include a good deal of input from faculty and/or graduate students....
View ArticleDiscussing classroom-type online learning
I am slowly working on the third edition of Teaching in a Digital Age. I have added a section to the first chapter on the impact of Covid-19, and have reviewed chapters on epistemology, learning...
View ArticleHas online learning gone backwards because of the pandemic?
Back to the classroom model I was recently struck by a comment my former colleague Diana Laurillard made in a podcast for Mark Nichols’ excellent podcast series, Leaders and Legends of Online Learning....
View ArticleThird edition of Teaching at a Distance is now published
The third edition of Teaching in a Digital Age is now available from here: https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/teachinginadigitalagev3m/ I have exported in several formats and made it public. The ISBN...
View ArticleWho wants to update the French version of ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’?/Qui...
Français Je suis très reconnaissant à Contact Nord d’avoir trouvé des fonds pour la traduction française de la première édition de Teaching in a Digital Age. Malheureusement, il n’a pas été en mesure...
View ArticleSpanish version of ‘Teaching in a Digital Age: Third Edition’ now...
Click en la imagen para acceder al libro/Click on image to access book/ Español Me complace anunciar que la versión en español de la tercera edición de ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’ ya está disponible...
View ArticleBook review: Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education
Zawacki-Richter, O. and Jung, I (2023) Handbook of Open, Distance and Digital Education Singapore: Springer Hard copy: US$59.99 + tax, pdf download: free Why this book? This is another in the series of...
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