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Book Review: Mega-Universities and Opening Education by Design

Nichols, M. (ed.) 2025 Mega-Universities and Opening Education by Design ICDE, Oslo, Norway Preliminaries I haven’t been posting much recently, reflecting my fully retired status. However, this book is definitely worth reviewing, so here goes. Open and distance learning, 30 years on Mark Nichols, the current President of the International Council for Open and Distance […]

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Book review: Handbook of Open Universities Around the World

Mishra, S. and Panda, S. (eds.) (2025) Handbook of Open Universities Around the World New York: Routledge, 692 pp. Who are the authors? Sanjaya Mishra is a specialist in technology-enabled learning at the Commonwealth of Learning and a leading scholar in open, distance and online learning. Prof Santosh Panda is the former Director of the […]

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A personal history: 31 – Learning Catalan – and about Catalunya

Academic collaboration Although I wasn’t successful at the time in implementing an effective institutional strategy for e-learning research (see my previous post), I did have some other successes at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). I ended up spending a good deal of time matching UOC academics with appropriate Ph.D. supervisors in other universities and […]

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A personal history: 30. A (history) lesson on e-learning research from the Open University of Catalonia

I am writing an autobiography, mainly for my family, but it does cover some key moments in the development of open and online learning. I thought I would share these as there seems to be a growing interest in the history of educational technology. Note that these posts are NOT meant to be deeply researched […]

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Some thoughts on the implications of AI for teaching and learning in higher education

What a co-incidence! A few months ago, I wrote a series of blog posts on the crisis in higher education, arguing that it had become too expensive. Universities in particular needed to find ways to reduce costs while still maintaining quality. Last month, I reviewed eight free AI tools offered by Contact North for instructors […]

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