By Patrick Atack. FutureLearn, the online education provider linked to the British Open University, has announced a deal with Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore to host a course on “The Monday Campaigns”. More...

CDLRA has just released the national report on its third annual survey of online and distance education in Canadian public post-secondary institutions (click on the title above to download a free copy). The francophone version is also available at https://formationenlignecanada.ca/. More...

I have now covered all five main articles in the special August issue of the journal Distance Education on learning analytics (because it is not an open publication). These are:

• analytics and learning design at the UKOU.
• analytics and personality traits in a high school in China
• analytics and gamification in an undergraduate course at a Hong Kong university
• learning analytics to predict mastery using an online mathematics tutoring system
• MOOCs and student data privacy: a sentiment analysis based on the terms of service of three MOOC providers.

However, there are also two commentaries on the five articles in this issue. More...

I’m slogging my way through the special issue on learning analytics in Distance Education, a subscription-only journal, because what is happening in this field is important but mostly wrong in its approach to teaching and learning. More...