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Book review: The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age
Davidson, C and Goldberg, D. (2010) The Future of Thinking: Learning Institutions in a Digital Age Chicago: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation The book itself is an attempt at...
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The Victoria, Australia website on iPads for Learning
iPads for Learning, Victoria, Australia I am making two exceptions with this post. I don’t normally cover k-12 (too large an area and too different from post-secondary education), and I don’t normally...
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European report on the future of learning
Redecker, C. et al. (2011) The Future of Learning: Preparing for Change Seville Spain: Institute for Prospective Technological Studies, JRC, European Commission What the report is about From the...
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Book review: Clark Quinn’s ‘The Mobile Academy’
© Anthony's Blog, 2009-2011 Quinn, C. (2012) The Mobile Academy: mLearning for Higher Education San Francisco: Jossey-Bass/John Wiley, 120 pp The author points out that 90% of the world’s population...
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Vancouver showcase of online learning innovations available on video
The Justice Institute of British Columbia and Vancouver Community College hosted an ‘online showcase’ on November 30, 2011, sponsored by the Metro Vancouver Educational Developers Network. Video...
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JET&S: Special journal issue on technology supported cognition and...
The Journal of Educational Technology and Society, Vol. 15, No.1, has a special edition on technology supported cognition and exploratory learning. From the editorial: The IADIS CELDA 2010 conference...
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My summer paranoia: computers will replace teachers in higher education
I had a strange dream last night. I was in discussion with an editor from a publishing company about the draft of a new book I was writing. As in all dreams it wasn’t clear what was going on in the...
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Are we right to fear computers in education – or in life?
In this post, I’m going to look at some fun fiction about computers, then raise some questions about whether our fears are rational, or whether we really do need to question much more closely our...
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Distance Education journal: November 2012 edition
Volume 33, No. 3 of Distance Education does not have a particular theme. But all the articles in one way or another discuss critical factors for student success in online or distance learning: the...
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No. 3 aha moment: asynchronous is (generally) better than synchronous teaching
The transmitter at Alexandra Palace, London, for the OU's TV and radio programs In an earlier post, I listed the seven ‘aha’ moments that have been the most seminal ‘discoveries’ in my researching and...
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Conference on science education at Western University
The prettiest campus in Canada? I was at the Western Conference on Science Education on July 10-11. I gave a a public lecture on designing teaching for 21st century learners, and met with senior...
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Dialogue and discussion: critical for 21st century skills development
Introduction First of all, thanks to the numerous people who commented on my earlier posts on Why Lectures are Dead, and on Learning Theories and Online Learning. These were previews of chapters for...
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Key characteristics of learners in a digital age and their influence on the...
In my previous post, I outlined some key components of learning environments, which will form part of Chapter 5 of my open textbook, ‘Teaching in a Digital Age.’ Here is one model of a learning...
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Can you do experiential learning online? Assessing design models for...
Loyalist College’s virtual border crossing One of the frustrating things about writing a book (Teaching in a Digital World) is that just when you think you’ve finished a chapter, you realise you have...
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Who are your online students?
Clinefelter, D. L., & Aslanian, C. B. (2015). Online college students 2015: Comprehensive data on demands and preferences. Louisville, KY: The Learning House, Inc. The survey This is an...
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Book review: A History of the Open University
The image is of Robin Wilson, an OU math lecturer (and incidentally the son of Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who helped create the OU). The floral shirt was de rigueur in the early 1970s (I had a few...
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Reading between the lines: the ‘intangibles’ in quality online teaching and...
Teaching needs empathy, intuition and imagination, as well as technical competence. Contact North has organised a series of four webinars highlighting the practical advice and guidelines offered in my...
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Building an effective learning environment
I was asked by the Chang School of Continuing Studies at Ryerson University to do a master class on this topic at their ChangSchoolTalks on February 17, based on Appendix 1 in my open, online...
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Online learning for beginners: 4. ‘What kinds of online learning are there?’
©acreelman.blogspot.com, 2013 This is the fourth of a series of a dozen blog posts aimed at those new to online learning or thinking of possibly doing it. The other three are: Online learning for...
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How to deal with online learning ‘deniers’ in your institution
Lieberman, M. (2018) Overcoming faculty resistance – or not? Inside Higher Education, March 14 I’ve been a bit slow on picking up on this (thanks to WCET for bringing it to my attention), but this is...
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