Course Design Factors Influencing The Success Of Online Learning
This is only a single study, and so the usual disclaimers apply about the applicability of its findings, but the authors point of an interesting and strong correlation between student satisfaction with an online course and the degree of interactivity in the course. More...

Tomorrow's Online Teachers
Slides from an online presentation I delivered this evening (having just returned from Newfoundland) using Groove to the FAME Residential 2003 seminar in Sydney, Australia (with a guest from South Australia also taking part). I look at the promise of technology seen through the lens of my 1998 paper, The Future of Online Learning, talk a bit about how we've drifted, and describe the role of the teacher in the learning environment that will emerge once we're back on track. More...

mLearning Consortium
Still with CADE: The authors presented the design and evaluation of this project involving the use of PDAs (specifically, IPAQs) to deliver accounting courses at Seneca College and the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. Interesting - though not surprising - was the result that PDAs did not really improve student learning. More...

CADE 2003
Today's OLDaily is coming to you from the 2003 Canadian Association for Distance Education (CADE) conference in St. John's, Newfoundland. If you are looking for my presentation - it's not available yet, as the only internet available is via the 'cybercafe' stocked with awkward Sun machines with Netscape 4.7! and 'locked browsers' - no wireless (*sigh*) - and, at the same time, my dial-up internet connection has mysteriously ceased to function. More...

Can a Subscription Model Work for Online Learners and Teachers? Skillshare Just Raised $28 Million to Find Out
Tony Wan, EdSurge, 2018/07/25
We've seen the subscription model for courses adopted by a number of companies (most notably Lynda) so it's not a surprise to see Skillshare looking in this direction. More...