Higher Education Whisperer

The government of the Canadian province of Alberta has announced a CA $8M, two year micro-credential program . This follows a CA$5.6M 2021 p...

Athabasca University are offering credit towards a Masters degree for the course " Toward Co-operative Commonwealth: Transition in a P...

My third video meeting for the day was a K12 EdTech Showcase hosted by EduGrowth, an Australian educational technology innovation hub. T...

The Australian Collaborative Education Network (ACEN) held a video meeting today to discuss what to do about Work Integrated Learning (WI...

Dr. Martha Cleveland-Innes , Instructor Athabasca University (Canada), is offering a free five-week online course Learning to Learn On...

The Australian National University is to pause all coursework teaching for one week from Monday 23 March and then deliver online for the r...

I was asked recently what to do if a student who is enrolled on campus asks to switch to online study, due to fear of COVID-19 Coronavirus...

Last week I attended a Service Design Meetup at the Canberra Innovation Network , sponsored by Evolve & Amplify. We went through the ...

One of the benefits of computers in education is that this makes distance education a richer experience and feasible for more students....

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig, 2006 Universities are canceling events to minimize the risk of the tran...

Media reports indicate that some universities are postponing examinations due to the about the COVID-19 Coronavirus . Unfortunately this e...

The World Health Organization has released a series of web based courses about the COVID-19 Coronavirus . These are intended for  health p...

The Center for Distance Education at Athabasca University (AU), where I did my MEd , is offering an interesting masters course for studen...

A new report on Harvard and MIT free online courses shows they are popular with teachers at 32% of students (Chuang & Ho, 2016). The rat...

Three Australian universities: ANU, Curtin and Queensland, are offering masters level blended courses as part of EdX MicroMasters Programs ...

Athabasca University (Canada) have released the preliminary results from their latest Learning to Learn Online course. This is a five week ...

Park, Kim and So (2016) found problems with the accessibility of Coursera, edX, and Khan Academy for users with a disability. Particular pr...

Sydney based Australian company Open Learning Global Pty., Ltd. has its on-line platform openlearning.com   is being used by the Malaysi...

University of California, Irvine are offering a Specialization Certificate  " Virtual Teacher Program " on-line through Coursera....

In " Coursera changes course on courses " (The Australian Higher Education Supplement, 5 August 2015), it is reported that the Cos...