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7 juillet 2019

Does the Canada Student Loans Program Make Money?

You’ll remember a couple of weeks ago I took the Ontario NDP to task for an absurd meme about the provincial government “profiting” from student loans. But it occurred to me later than though there is no way the charge sticks against the provincial government, it arguably might about the federal government’s Canada Student Loans Program (CSLP), which both borrows more cheaply and lends more dearly than the provincial government. More...

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7 juillet 2019

Hit Pause

All right, everyone. It’s the solstice today, and that’s pretty much the signal for everyone to press the pause button and wind things down for the summer. This blog is no exception. I’ll be back on August 26^th, unlikely to be rested (packed schedule for the summer already), but hopefully recharged and for another year of data analysis, global updates and snark in roughly equal proportion. More...

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7 juillet 2019

So you want to be an educational technologist……

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By Tony Bates. About two or three times a month I get requests to meet or talk on the phone to someone who is looking for a career in online learning, educational technology or instructional design. I am always happy to give half an hour of my time to help as best as I can. We need good quality people in this field. More...

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7 juillet 2019

Back to the Future: open pedagogy, learning design, and ETUG’s 25th anniversary conference

By Tony Bates. Last week I spent two days at the British Columbia Educational Technology Users’ Group conference at Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops. ETUG was celebrating 25 years of existence, since it was established in 1994 through the merging of several smaller groups. The conference theme was ‘Back to the Future.’ More...

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7 juillet 2019

Book review: Open and Distance Education Theory Revisited

By Tony Bates. This book, edited by Insung Jung of the International Christian University, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan, is a collection of chapters by different authors that re-examines theories of open and distance learning in the context of more recent technological development such as online learning and MOOCs. More...

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7 juillet 2019

The sector has to act now on the climate emergency

Together as a sector, we need to re-evaluate what we do and to make the climate emergency a higher priority than it is at present.
There are some notable exceptions, but the higher education sector as a whole has been half asleep on this agenda. Following MPs approval on a motion to declare an environment and climate emergency, it’s time we all did more. More...

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7 juillet 2019

Improving staff mental health and well-being is crucial, yet less than 11% of universities have a specific well-being policy

Regrettably, concerns about the mounting stress levels experienced by staff working in higher education is not new. The report, ‘Pressure point: a survey, into the causes and consequences of occupational stress in UK academic and related staff.’ by Gail Kinman (1998), identified work overload, long working hours as the results of staff taking on additional roles, often with conflicting priorities. More...

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7 juillet 2019

Challenges abound, but so do opportunities – why the MillionPlus voice must be heard

It is always an interesting time in higher education. As a sector that impacts all of society, touches the lives of so many individuals and families and creates wider benefits from significant public investment, we are bound to attract attention and scrutiny. More...

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7 juillet 2019

Reasons To Be Cheerful (Part 8)

It is easy to be pessimistic about future student demand, given the current environment in which higher education institutions are operating. We often write about the challenges facing the sector. But the slides below are designed to show there are broad grounds for optimism too. More...

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7 juillet 2019

Augar and the Industrial Strategy: 10 key points for the incoming Prime Minister about the creative arts and creative industries

The creative industries are creating the jobs of the future – where emphasis on human creativity and ingenuity are core.
Not my words, but one of the keynotes of the UK’s Industrial Strategy – a central reference point for the Augar Report and its recommendations on post-18 education. More...

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