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 to say my initial reaction was outrage at their comments. Hold on, folks, Canada could learn a lot from the Ghana initiative. At last a government has taken the initiative to professionalise teaching in higher education, and they then get slammed by two Canadians, one of who is a senior programme adviser for government, and the other a Canadian policy consultant. 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:
However, there are also two commentaries on the five articles in this issue. More...
Are you still with me as I plough through the special edition on learning analytics from the journal Distance Education? I hope so. I hope this isn’t too boring for you but at least I am persistent. I am determined to get a good grasp of the strengths and weaknesses of learning analytics. More...
The result of broad consensus led to a core program covering English language and communications skills with optional specializations such as literature, creative writing, drama and film studies, linguistics, and intercultural communication. 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...
By . Let’s start with tuition fees. For the last quarter-century or so, Alberta has stayed pretty close to the Canadian average. Until 2013-14 it was above the average; since then, it has been below. But the gap was never that big either way. More...
By . The first thing you need to understand about Alberta is the massively outsized space that the University of Alberta has historically occupied in the province. Alberta was very quick to establish a university – it did so ahead of both Saskatchewan (which, prior to WWI, was considered the more dynamic of the two 1905 accession provinces) and British Columbia. More...
By . Last Thursday, the Ontario Superior Court struck down the Ford Government’s “Student Choice Initiative”, a program of voluntary student-unionism (VSU) it imposed last January (see here for a refresher). The court decision is here. It’s a full defeat for the provincial government, the policy is declared void, but it’s unclear if and how student organizations will be compensated for lost revenue from the fall term. More...
By . One of the oddest conventions in strategic planning – in higher education, anyway – is that Strategic Plans should last for five years. I know of no reason why five years is considered a standard length of measurement other than that when Stalin decided to resume planning in 1928 after the “pause” of the New Economic Policy and the defeat of his left-wing opponents Trotsky, Zinoviev and Kamenev, he decided to do so in five-year increments. More...
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